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Charlotte van der Lijn is an Associate Lecturer in Spatial Data Science at the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, where she joined in December 2022. She is a member of the Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Institute and contributes to the Environmental Change Research Group and Population and Health Research. Her academic work bridges geography, urban planning, and data science.
Research Interests:
- Understanding urban housing markets using online housing search data
- Spatial accessibility and equity in urban environments
- Interpretation of mental maps and perception of urban space
- Development of deprivation indices and urban inequality analysis
- Data visualization and storytelling techniques
- Exploration of urban design and planning using virtual reality
Her recent research leverages social media data, neural networks, and GIS to study physical activity spaces, accessibility, and urban form, particularly in Finnish and UK contexts. The articles show a consistent trend in using innovative data sources (e.g., Twitter) and advanced computational methods (e.g., deep learning) for urban geographic research.
Scientific Awards:
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE), 10 April 2025
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE), 4 May 2020
Advising and Grants: Charlotte serves as a dissertation supervisor for honours students. She was Principal Investigator on the YLLI project (Equality in Suburban Physical Activity Environments, 2020–2022) and is currently a co-researcher on the CEE-VR project (Community Engagement with Virtual & Augmented Reality), funded by HEIF. She also contributes as an Associate Editor for the Housing & Society Journal and performs peer-review duties for several journals, including International Journal of Geographical Information Science and Information Visualization.
Labs and Teams: She is affiliated with the Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Institute and conducts research within the Environmental Change Research Group and Population and Health Research at St Andrews. Her work is highly collaborative, involving researchers from the University of Helsinki and other international institutions.
