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Vikki Houlden

@vikkimaps

Lecturer in Urban Data Science @SoGLeeds + Prog Lead @UDS_Leeds | PI @GreenAWARE_ | Inequality. Greenspace. Wellbeing | She/Her

 ISDS, Geography, Leeds
well-green.co.uk/
Joined February 2015
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GreenAWARE@GreenAWARE_14 Apr 2025
QUIZ TIME! What’s your park vibe? Cast your vote and then share your thoughts in the Leeds and Bradford Access to Parks and Green Spaces Survey – we want to hear from you! bit.ly/m/GreenAWARE Working with @LeedsParks and @bradfordmdc
Image of Park. Quiz time! What kind of park visitor are you? A. The Explorer. Loves adverntures and trails B. The Social Butterlfy. Picnic and hangout lover C. The Escape Artist. Needs quiet nature time D. The Occasional Visitor. Parks don’t quite work for me. Tell us more! Take the Leeds and Bradford Access to Parks and Green Spaces Survey for a chance to win £100

ALT Image of Park. Quiz time! What kind of park visitor are you? A. The Explorer. Loves adverntures and trails B. The Social Butterlfy. Picnic and hangout lover C. The Escape Artist. Needs quiet nature time D. The Occasional Visitor. Parks don’t quite work for me. Tell us more! Take the Leeds and Bradford Access to Parks and Green Spaces Survey for a chance to win £100

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GreenAWARE@GreenAWARE_26 Mar 2025
Wish you were here? Tell us what you like about your local parks, and what you'd like to see to make them better! Complete the Bradford and Leeds Access to Parks and Green Spaces Survey for a chance to win a £100 voucher! bit.ly/m/GreenAWARE
Image of a Park in Bradford with text "whether you use parks or not, we want to hear from you! Complete our Bradford and Leeds Access to Parks Survey for a chace to win a £100 shopping voucher! Visit bit.ly/m/GreenAWARE or Google Future of Parks"

ALT Image of a Park in Bradford with text "whether you use parks or not, we want to hear from you! Complete our Bradford and Leeds Access to Parks Survey for a chace to win a £100 shopping voucher! Visit bit.ly/m/GreenAWARE or Google Future of Parks"

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GreenAWARE@GreenAWARE_20 Mar 2025
Not sure parks are for you? Let’s change that! Tell us what’s keeping you away, and win a £100 voucher. Take the Leeds/Bradford Access to Parks and Green Spaces Survey today! bit.ly/m/GreenAWARE
Image of Park. Feel like parks aren’t for you? Tell us why and win a £100 voucher. Visit bit.ly/m/GreenAWARE

ALT Image of Park. Feel like parks aren’t for you? Tell us why and win a £100 voucher. Visit bit.ly/m/GreenAWARE

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We recently ran an @ESRC Festival of Social Science drop-in event in @TheBroadwayBrad for women and girls to share their views on safety in the city centre and local parks. Read our blog by about this event and wider work on safety in Bradford: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk…
Group shot of researchers stood in front of poster boards in the Broadway Shopping Centre, Bradford.

ALT Group shot of researchers stood in front of poster boards in the Broadway Shopping Centre, Bradford.

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Law at Leeds@Law_Leeds20 Jun 2024
Great opportunity to join Dr @vikkimaps, Dr @Barker1Anna, @LeedsParks and @BradDistParks on the fantastic @GreenAWARE_ project as a Research Fellow in Spatial Inequality, starting in the Autumn! @SoGLeeds @EnvLeeds @CCJSLeeds @LSJ_Leeds Apply by 27 June 👇👇
GreenAWARE (@GreenAWARE_) profile pictureGreenAWARE@GreenAWARE_17 Jun 2024
Are you interested in green space, health, and equality? We are looking for a Research Fellow to support data collection and analysis on our project, starting this Autumn! All details here, please share! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
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Interested in novel methods to understand inequalities in access to greenspace? Want to propose ways in which greenspace can be designed to overcome social & cultural barriers to use & promote wellbeing. Apply for this job with a fantastic team at Leeds (Grade 7, 16 months)
GreenAWARE (@GreenAWARE_) profile pictureGreenAWARE@GreenAWARE_17 Jun 2024
Are you interested in green space, health, and equality? We are looking for a Research Fellow to support data collection and analysis on our project, starting this Autumn! All details here, please share! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
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Amazing job oppotunity with our new healthy urban places consortium working with @BiBresearch and the FABULOUS @KimonKrenz. If you want to your work to help tackle spatial injustice and health inequalities using rich health and spatial datasets then this is the role for you.
Dr Kimon Krenz (@KimonKrenz) profile pictureDr Kimon Krenz@KimonKrenz4 Jun 2024
Job Opportunity! I am looking for a 4-year Research Fellow in Urban Health Analytics. You will be based at the UCL Space Syntax Laboratory, and focus on better understanding Healthy Urban Places. For more information and full job description document: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search…
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GreenAWARE@GreenAWARE_22 May 2024
We're really excited to be launching this project led by @vikkimaps with @Barker1Anna as Co-I! Hosted within @SoGLeeds @EnvLeeds @UniversityLeeds in collaboration with @LeedsParks and @BradDistParks 🌱🍃🏙️ More info: environment.leeds.ac.uk/geog…

Green AWARE: Greenspace Access, Wellbeing, and Resident Equality

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Vikki Houlden (@vikkimaps) profile pictureVikki Houlden@vikkimaps22 May 2024
Thrilled to share that @Barker1Anna and I have been awarded @ESRC funding for our @GreenAWARE_ project to study inequalities in access to greenspace across Leeds and Bradford. Starting 01/06/24! This New Investigator grant is my first as PI! 1/
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LPIP Hub@LPIPHub16 May 2024
‘Left Behind’ neighbourhoods in England @vikkimaps, @CaitHRobin, @rsfrankl, @Fcorowe & Andy Pike have published an article in @RGS_IBGhe on where the 'left behind' places are, and why they matter. shorturl.at/euMV8
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📢Want to learn from our experiences of co-producing our @bibreasearch Age of Wonder Adolescent health study? Then please read on...👇 Ready, set, co(produce): a co-operative inquiry into co-producing research to explore adolescent health and wellbeing researchinvolvement.biomedce…
Ready, set, co(produce): a co-operative inquiry into co-producing research to explore adolescent...

Ready, set, co(produce): a co-operative inquiry into co-producing research to explore adolescent...

Research Involvement and Engagement - Co-production of research with communities and stakeholders is recognised as best practice, but despite this, transparent reporting and reflective accounts on...

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frances quinn@franquinn7 Apr 2024
A holiday in the UK is not a staycation, it’s a holiday in the UK – at Hove, England
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Britain’s staycation boom may be over as bookings dry up theguardian.com/money/2024/a…
Britain’s staycation boom may be over as bookings dry up

Britain’s staycation boom may be over as bookings dry up

The cost of living, cold weather and a surplus of holiday lets have hit rental property owners in both cities and the seaside

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We have #scholarships available to financially support students from underrepresented groups in our next cohort! See here for info: lida.leeds.ac.uk/data-scienc…
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Invisible Women is 99p on Kindle today ONLY! So if you’ve been thinking of buying a copy for yourself or a friend or an enemy, today is the day! amazon.co.uk/Invisible-Women…
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Zara B@zaranosaur1 Feb 2024
RT 🔒 re baby formula prices U.K.: Important to know: Iceland (the Supermarket) sells baby formula at cost price on principle. It's against the law to promote this discount, hence word of mouth. If you know someone who's struggling to buy formula you can point them there.
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Come see me and my tiny poster at #AAIC23, presenting on my favourite thing, street networks, and the associations with cognitive impairment as part of the EPOCH project with @FEMatthewsStats, Yu-Tzu Wu, @rsfrankl @vikkimaps @am_prina
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CDRC@CDRC_UK5 Apr 2023
📢Job Opportunity - Lead Reseach Data Scientist. Are you a data scientist looking for a new challenge? We're looking for someone to join our team in Leeds to help us deliver impact from our data assets and projects. More info and apply: bit.ly/3ZHCCt8 #datajobs
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"Surround yourself with women who would mention your name in a room full of opportunities" #IWD2023 ❤️
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Great column from @Barker1Anna (@Law_Leeds) showcasing research by Anna and colleagues, funded by @MayorOfWY and @DeputyMayorPCWY, around safety of women and girls in local parks. 👇
The Yorkshire Post (@yorkshirepost) profile pictureThe Yorkshire Post@yorkshirepost8 Mar 2023
"Whilst parks and public spaces are open to all there is still a long way to go to make sure they are used and experienced as safe places by everyone." #IWD2023 yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opi…
Women and girls face huge disadvantages when it comes to accessing parks - Dr Anna Barker

Women and girls face huge disadvantages when it comes to accessing parks - Dr Anna Barker

Across the UK, 27,000 parks give much-needed green space and access to nature for urban areas. They give us spaces for exercise, for play, for socialising and for relaxing – as well as walking and...

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Dr Megan Wood@DrMeganLWood6 Mar 2023
I’m back on @bcbradio this morning at 11:30 discussing a recent project I’ve been working on with @ConnectedBfd involving the identification of children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) 🎙️ – at Bradford, England
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16/ Concluding this issue is: '"There is no formula for life and career": A commentary on perspectives and experiences of early career quantitative human geographers' by @PaBal24 (@geodatascience) et al. #GJ doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12499
Title and abstract for "There is no formula for life and career": A commentary on perspectives and experiences of early career quantitative human geographers' by Patrick Ballantyne, Rachael K. Sanderson, Alec Davies, Victoria Houlden, Andrew MacLachlan, Gwilym Owen, Caitlin Robinson, Hyesop Shin, Flurina M. Wartmann, Joanna Wilkin, and Isabel Williams in The Geographical Journal.

ALT Title and abstract for "There is no formula for life and career": A commentary on perspectives and experiences of early career quantitative human geographers' by Patrick Ballantyne, Rachael K. Sanderson, Alec Davies, Victoria Houlden, Andrew MacLachlan, Gwilym Owen, Caitlin Robinson, Hyesop Shin, Flurina M. Wartmann, Joanna Wilkin, and Isabel Williams in The Geographical Journal.

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