Meet the team

Nick Bailey

Director of UBDC

Nick Bailey has been Director of the Centre since August 2018, having formerly served as Associate Director since the Centre’s inception in 2014. He is a Professor in Urban Studies, based in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Alongside his role in the Urban Big Data Centre, he is also Associate Director of the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research, part of Administrative Data Research UK.

He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) in 2020.

Nick is interested in how neighbourhoods shape our lives and how divisions between richer and poorer areas within the city are created and maintained. He is also interested in broader issues of poverty and social exclusion.

Nick seeks to combine academic research with work which informs public policy and public debates. A key interest in recent years has been in whether local public services are equally available to all, and in who is losing out as local government funding is dramatically reduced. He sees the Urban Big Data Centre as a unique opportunity to understand how different services affect our lives. Given the pressures to reduce public expenditure, he sees great potential in using Big Data to identify effective forms of preventative spend – how an investment in one service now can save money in the longer term.

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Positions

Director, Urban Big Data Centre
Professor, Urban Studies
Associate, Institute of Health and Wellbeing

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nick.bailey@glasgow.ac.uk

+44 (0) 141 330 3154

Nick Bailey

Publications

Enhancing our understanding of short-term rental activity: a daily scrape-based approach for Airbnb listings.

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Meet the team

Nick Bailey

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Publications

Enhancing our understanding of short-term rental activity: a daily scrape-based approach for Airbnb listings.

Variations in domestic energy efficiency by property, neighbourhood and local authority type: where are the largest challenges for the netzero transition in the UK's residential stock?

Assessing the socio-demographic representativeness of mobile phone application data.

Housing and welfare reform, and the suburbanization of poverty in UK cities 2011-20.

Towards Just Neighbourhoods: Leveraging Geospatial Data Science to Understand Night-Time Public Transport Variability in British Cities.

Hosting major events: Understanding the impacts of short-term rentals in Glasgow during COP26.

Estimating Greenspace Visitation Using Digital Footprints Data: A Collaboration with Glasgow City Council to Aid in Open Space Policy and Operations [poster]

The challenges of measuring the short-term rental market: an analysis of open data on Airbnb activity.

Adaptive deprivation scales in a multi-national context: the European child deprivation indicators.

Understanding the Socio-demographic Representation of Tamoco Mobile Phone App Data in Glasgow City Region.

The impacts of benefit sanctions: a scoping review of the quantitative research evidence.

Occupational differences in COVID-19 hospital admission and mortality between women and men in Scotland: A population-based study using linked administrative data.

Occupation and COVID-19 deaths: Scotland in a comparative perspective.

Citizen mobility and the growth of infections during the COVID-19 pandemic with the effects of government restrictions in Western Europe.

Understanding the Use of Greenspace Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Using Mobile Phone App Data.

Exploiting new forms of data to study the private rented sector: strengths and limitations of a database of rental listings.

Urban housing markets after the pandemic – a UK perspective.

Linkage of national health and social care data: a cross-sectional study of multimorbidity and social care use in people aged over 65 years in Scotland.

Policy recommendations, pages 1-3. In Wright S (ed.) Mental Health, Welfare Conditionality and Employment support: Policy Recommendations and Key Findings. Report.

Analysis Protocol: Constructions of Mental Health and Problematic Alcohol Use Within UK’s Health and Welfare Policy.

Measuring poverty efficiently using adaptive deprivation scales.

Lived Experiences of Mental Health Problems and Welfare Conditionality.

Using linked longitudinal administrative data to identify social disadvantage.

Poverty and the re-growth of private renting in the UK, 1994-2018.

Labour Market and Wider Impacts of Benefit Sanctions: A Scoping Review.

Spatial segregation measures: a methodological review.

Labour Market and Wider Impacts of Benefit Sanctions: A Scoping Review [Review Protocol]

The welfare consequences of the suburbanisation of poverty in UK cities: air pollution and school quality.

Data resource profile: the Scottish Social Care Survey (SCS) and the Scottish Care Home Census (SCHC)

Pro-Poor or Pro-Rich? The Social Impact of Local Government Budgets, 2016-17 to 2018-19. SPICe Briefing 18-82.

Private renting reforms: how to evidence the impacts of the legislation.

Using Longitudinal Administrative Data on Benefits and Earnings Histories to Identify Social Disadvantage.

Multimorbidity and access to social care: exploiting emerging administrative data sources in Scotland.

Validation of the Scottish Social Care Survey using data from Renfrewshire Council.

Neighbourhood Effects and Occupational Mobility in Scotland: Limits to the ‘Tenure-split’ Approach.

Reconsidering the relationship between air pollution and deprivation.

Report on the Child Poverty Strategy for Scotland 2014-2017.

Inequality and poverty.

The suburbanisation of poverty in British cities, 2004-16: extent, processes and nature.

The Social Impact of the 2017-18 Local Government Budget.

Conclusion.

Employment, poverty and social exclusion.

More similarities than differences: poverty and social exclusion in rural and urban locations.

Introduction.

The multidimensional analysis of social exclusion.

Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK, Volume 2: The Dimensions of Disadvantage.

Social participation and social support.

Using Longitudinal Administrative Data on Employment History to Identify Poverty Risks and Social Need.

Austerity urbanism in England: the 'regressive redistribution' of local government services and the impact on the poor and marginalised.

The Influence of Recent Employment History on Poverty Risks: A Study Using Linked Administrative and Survey Data.

Using Longitudinal Administrative Data on Employment History to Identify Poverty Risks and Social Need.

Re-making urban segregation: processes of income sorting and neighbourhood change.

Poverty and social exclusion in urban and rural areas of Scotland.

Exclusionary employment in Britain’s broken labour market.

The Social Impact of the 2016-17 Local Government Budget.

The Cost of the Cuts: The Impact on Local Government and Poorer Communities.

The Cost of the Cuts: the Impact on Local Government and Poorer Communities. Summary Report.

Coping with the cuts? The management of the worst financial settlement in living memory.

How neighbourhood social mix shapes access to resources from social networks and from services.

The Cost of the Cuts: The Impact on Local Government and Poorer Communities.

The place of neighbourhood in entrepreneurship: attitudes, resources and sorting.

Symposium introduction: local Responses to ‘austerity’

'All in it together'? Social cohesion in a dividing society: attitudes to income inequality and redistribution in a residential context.

Lower Poverty in Scotland: Pinning Down the Change.

Attitudes to the 'necessities of life': would an independent Scotland set a different poverty standard to the rest of the UK?

'Managing' the middle classes: urban managers, public services and the response to middle-class capture.