Dr Jing Yao

  • Senior Lecturer (Urban Studies)

telephone: 01413302368
email: Jing.Yao@glasgow.ac.uk

Urban Big Data Centre, 7 Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK G12 8RZ

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8677-8248

Biography

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Dr Jing Yao (姚 静) joined University of Glasgow as a lecturer in Urban Big Data and Quantitative Methods at the UK ESRC-funded Urban Big Data Centre in October, 2014. She has a PhD in Geography and a MSc in Industrial Engineering both from Arizona State University (ASU), USA. She also has a MSc degree and a BSc degree in Geographical Information System (GIS) from Nanjing University, China. Previously she worked as a postdoctoral associate at GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation at ASU in the US and a research fellow at Centre for Geoinformatics at University of St Andrews in UK.

Research interests

Jing’s research interests cover a wide range of areas in geographic information science, including spatial analysis, spatial statistics, spatial modeling, and spatial optimization, etc. Currently, she focuses on developing quantitative methods for spatially integrated analysis and modeling and particularly their applications in social science and health research. Also, she is interested in spatial optimization and decision making, including facility location modeling, regionalization and land use optimization.

  • Geographical Information Science
  • Spatial Statistics
  • Spatial Optimization
  • Location Modeling
  • Health Geography
  • Regional Science
  • Urban and Regional Planning and development

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 33.

2023

Luo, W., Chen, C., Li, H., Hou, Y., Xia, Y., Liu, J., Wu, L. and Yao, J. (2023) Residential open space and the perception of health benefits: how much is the public willing to pay? Journal of Environmental Management, 316, 115273. (doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115273) (PMID:35576707)

2022

Luo, W., Yao, J. , Mitchell, R. , Zhang, X. and Li, W. (2022) Locating emergency medical services to reduce urban-rural inequalities. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 84, 101416. (doi: 10.1016/j.seps.2022.101416)

Colbert, J., Sila-Nowicka, K. and Yao, J. (2022) Driving forces of population change following the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence, New Zealand: a multiscale geographically weighted regression approach. Population, Space and Place, 28(8), e2583. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2583)

Yao, J. , Zhang, X., Lui, W., Liu, C. and Ren, L. (2022) Applications of stacking/blending ensemble learning approaches for evaluating flash flood susceptibility. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 112, 102932. (doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2022.102932)

Chen, C., Li, H., Luo, W., Xie, J., Yao, J. , Wu, L. and Xia, Y. (2022) Predicting the effect of street environment on residents' mood states in large urban areas using machine learning and street view images. Science of the Total Environment, 816, 151605. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151605) (PMID:34838562)

2021

Li, H., Luo, W., Hou, Y., Xia, Y., Yao, J. , Kang, N., Deng, C., Sun, H. and Chen, C. (2021) Factors affecting perceived health benefits and use behaviors in urban green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern China megacities. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 759444. (doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.759444)

Zhang, X., Yao, J. , Sila-Nowicka, K. and Song, C. (2021) Geographic concentration of industries in Jiangsu, China: a spatial point pattern analysis using micro-geographic data. Annals of Regional Science, 66(2), pp. 439-461. (doi: 10.1007/s00168-020-01026-x)

2020

Zhang, X., Yao, J. , Wang, J. and Sila-Nowicka, K. (2020) Changes of forestland in China's coastal areas (1996-2015): regional variations and driving forces. Land Use Policy, 99, 105018. (doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105018)

Yao, J. , Luo, W., Mitchell, R. and Zhang, X. (2020) Spatiotemporal access to emergency medical services in Wuhan, China: accounting for scene and transport time intervals. International Journal of Health Geographics, 19, 52. (doi: 10.1186/s12942-020-00249-7) (PMID:33243272) (PMCID:PMC7689650)

Yao, J. and Murray, A. T. (2020) A spatial optimization approach for solving a multi-facility location problem with continuously distributed demand. In: Thill, J.-C. (ed.) Innovations in Urban and Regional Systems. Springer, pp. 113-135. ISBN 9783030436926 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-43694-0_6)

Yuan, Q., Zhou, K. and Yao, J. (2020) A new measure of wind power variability with implications for the optimal sizing of standalone wind power systems. Renewable Energy, 150, pp. 538-549. (doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.121)

Zhang, X., Yao, J. , Sila-Nowicka, K. and Jin, Y. (2020) Urban fire dynamics and its association with urban growth: evidence from Nanjing. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9(4), 218. (doi: 10.3390/ijgi9040218)

Jin, Y., Liu, X., Yao, J. , Zhang, X. and Zhang, H. (2020) Mapping the annual dynamics of cultivated land in typical area of the Middle-lower Yangtze plain using long time-series of Landsat images based on Google Earth Engine. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 41(4), pp. 1625-1644. (doi: 10.1080/01431161.2019.1673917)

2019

Yao, J. , Murray, A. T., Wang, J. and Zhang, X. (2019) Evaluation and development of sustainable urban land use plans through spatial optimization. Transactions in GIS, 23, pp. 705-725. (doi: 10.1111/tgis.12531)

Yao, J. , Wong, D. W.S., Bailey, N. and Minton, J. (2019) Spatial segregation measures: a methodological review. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 110(3), pp. 235-250. (doi: 10.1111/tesg.12305)

Yao, J. , Zhang, X. and Murray, A. T. (2019) Location optimization of urban fire stations: access and service coverage. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 73, pp. 184-190. (doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.10.006)

2018

Yao, J. and Agadjanian, V. (2018) Bypassing health facilities in rural Mozambique: spatial, institutional, and individual determinants. BMC Health Services Research, 18, 1006. (doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3834-y) (PMID:30594198)

Yao, J. , Zhang, X. and Murray, A. T. (2018) Spatial optimization for land use allocation: accounting for sustainability concerns. International Regional Science Review, 41(6), pp. 579-600. (doi: 10.1177/0160017617728551)

Zhang, X., Yao, J. and Sila-Nowicka, K. (2018) Exploring spatiotemporal dynamics of urban fires: A case of Nanjing, China. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7(1), 7. (doi: 10.3390/ijgi7010007)

2016

Victor, A., Yao, J. and Hayford, S. (2016) Place, time and experience: barriers to universalization of institutional child delivery in rural Mozambique. International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 42(1), pp. 21-31. (doi: 10.1363/42e0116)

Yao, J. and Zhang, X. (2016) Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Urban Fire Incidents: a Case Study of Nanjing, China. In: XXIII ISPRS Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 12-19 Jul 2016, pp. 63-69. (doi: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XLI-B2-63-2016)

Yao, J. and Fotheringham, A. S. (2016) Local spatiotemporal modeling of house prices: a mixed model approach. Professional Geographer, 68(2), pp. 189-201. (doi: 10.1080/00330124.2015.1033671)

2015

Fotheringham, A. S., Crespo, R. and Yao, J. (2015) Geographical and temporal weighted regression (GTWR). Geographical Analysis, 47(4), pp. 431-452. (doi: 10.1111/gean.12071)

Agadjanian, V., Hayford, S. R., Luz, L. and Yao, J. (2015) Bridging user and provider perspectives: Family planning access and utilization in rural Mozambique. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 130(Supl 3), E47-E51. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2015.03.019) (PMID:26082266)

Fotheringham, A.S., Crespo, R. and Yao, J. (2015) Exploring, modelling and predicting spatiotemporal variations in house prices. Annals of Regional Science, 54(2), pp. 417-436. (doi: 10.1007/s00168-015-0660-6)

2014

Yao, J. and Murray, A. T. (2014) Serving regional demand in facility location. Papers in Regional Science, 93(3), pp. 643-662. (doi: 10.1111/pirs.12013)

Yao, J. , Agadjanian, V. and Murray, A. T. (2014) Spatial and social inequities in {HIV} testing utilization in the context of rapid scale-up of HIV/AIDS services in rural Mozambique. Health and Place, 28, 133 - 141. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.04.007)

Yao, J. and Murray, A. T. (2014) Locational effectiveness of clinics providing sexual and reproductive health services to women in rural Mozambique. International Regional Science Review, 37(2), pp. 172-193. (doi: 10.1177/0160017614524227)

2013

Yao, J. , Murray, A. T. and Agadjanian, V. (2013) A geographical perspective on access to sexual and reproductive health care for women in rural Africa. Social Science and Medicine, 96, 60 - 68. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.07.025)

Yao, J. and Murray, A. T. (2013) Continuous surface representation and approximation: spatial analytical implications. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27(5), pp. 883-897. (doi: 10.1080/13658816.2012.725475)

2012

Cudnik, M., Yao, J. , Murray, A. T., Pennington, S., Andrusiek, D. and Christenson, J. (2012) Does Gis-derived Transport Time Prediction Reflect Actual Transport Times In Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients? Academic Emergency Medicine, 19(S1), S272. (doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01332.x)

Cudnik, M. T., Yao, J. , Zive, D., Newgard, C. and Murray, A. T. (2012) Surrogate markers of transport distance for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients. Prehospital Emergency Care, 16(2), pp. 266-272. (doi: 10.3109/10903127.2011.615009)

Yao, J. , Murray, A., Agadjanian, V. and Hayford, S. R. (2012) Geographic influences on sexual and reproductive health service utilization in rural Mozambique. Applied Geography, 32(2), 601 - 607. (doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.07.009)

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Articles

Luo, W., Chen, C., Li, H., Hou, Y., Xia, Y., Liu, J., Wu, L. and Yao, J. (2023) Residential open space and the perception of health benefits: how much is the public willing to pay? Journal of Environmental Management, 316, 115273. (doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115273) (PMID:35576707)

Luo, W., Yao, J. , Mitchell, R. , Zhang, X. and Li, W. (2022) Locating emergency medical services to reduce urban-rural inequalities. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 84, 101416. (doi: 10.1016/j.seps.2022.101416)

Colbert, J., Sila-Nowicka, K. and Yao, J. (2022) Driving forces of population change following the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence, New Zealand: a multiscale geographically weighted regression approach. Population, Space and Place, 28(8), e2583. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2583)

Yao, J. , Zhang, X., Lui, W., Liu, C. and Ren, L. (2022) Applications of stacking/blending ensemble learning approaches for evaluating flash flood susceptibility. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 112, 102932. (doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2022.102932)

Chen, C., Li, H., Luo, W., Xie, J., Yao, J. , Wu, L. and Xia, Y. (2022) Predicting the effect of street environment on residents' mood states in large urban areas using machine learning and street view images. Science of the Total Environment, 816, 151605. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151605) (PMID:34838562)

Li, H., Luo, W., Hou, Y., Xia, Y., Yao, J. , Kang, N., Deng, C., Sun, H. and Chen, C. (2021) Factors affecting perceived health benefits and use behaviors in urban green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern China megacities. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 759444. (doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.759444)

Zhang, X., Yao, J. , Sila-Nowicka, K. and Song, C. (2021) Geographic concentration of industries in Jiangsu, China: a spatial point pattern analysis using micro-geographic data. Annals of Regional Science, 66(2), pp. 439-461. (doi: 10.1007/s00168-020-01026-x)

Zhang, X., Yao, J. , Wang, J. and Sila-Nowicka, K. (2020) Changes of forestland in China's coastal areas (1996-2015): regional variations and driving forces. Land Use Policy, 99, 105018. (doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105018)

Yao, J. , Luo, W., Mitchell, R. and Zhang, X. (2020) Spatiotemporal access to emergency medical services in Wuhan, China: accounting for scene and transport time intervals. International Journal of Health Geographics, 19, 52. (doi: 10.1186/s12942-020-00249-7) (PMID:33243272) (PMCID:PMC7689650)

Yuan, Q., Zhou, K. and Yao, J. (2020) A new measure of wind power variability with implications for the optimal sizing of standalone wind power systems. Renewable Energy, 150, pp. 538-549. (doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.121)

Zhang, X., Yao, J. , Sila-Nowicka, K. and Jin, Y. (2020) Urban fire dynamics and its association with urban growth: evidence from Nanjing. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9(4), 218. (doi: 10.3390/ijgi9040218)

Jin, Y., Liu, X., Yao, J. , Zhang, X. and Zhang, H. (2020) Mapping the annual dynamics of cultivated land in typical area of the Middle-lower Yangtze plain using long time-series of Landsat images based on Google Earth Engine. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 41(4), pp. 1625-1644. (doi: 10.1080/01431161.2019.1673917)

Yao, J. , Murray, A. T., Wang, J. and Zhang, X. (2019) Evaluation and development of sustainable urban land use plans through spatial optimization. Transactions in GIS, 23, pp. 705-725. (doi: 10.1111/tgis.12531)

Yao, J. , Wong, D. W.S., Bailey, N. and Minton, J. (2019) Spatial segregation measures: a methodological review. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 110(3), pp. 235-250. (doi: 10.1111/tesg.12305)

Yao, J. , Zhang, X. and Murray, A. T. (2019) Location optimization of urban fire stations: access and service coverage. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 73, pp. 184-190. (doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.10.006)

Yao, J. and Agadjanian, V. (2018) Bypassing health facilities in rural Mozambique: spatial, institutional, and individual determinants. BMC Health Services Research, 18, 1006. (doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3834-y) (PMID:30594198)

Yao, J. , Zhang, X. and Murray, A. T. (2018) Spatial optimization for land use allocation: accounting for sustainability concerns. International Regional Science Review, 41(6), pp. 579-600. (doi: 10.1177/0160017617728551)

Zhang, X., Yao, J. and Sila-Nowicka, K. (2018) Exploring spatiotemporal dynamics of urban fires: A case of Nanjing, China. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7(1), 7. (doi: 10.3390/ijgi7010007)

Victor, A., Yao, J. and Hayford, S. (2016) Place, time and experience: barriers to universalization of institutional child delivery in rural Mozambique. International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 42(1), pp. 21-31. (doi: 10.1363/42e0116)

Yao, J. and Fotheringham, A. S. (2016) Local spatiotemporal modeling of house prices: a mixed model approach. Professional Geographer, 68(2), pp. 189-201. (doi: 10.1080/00330124.2015.1033671)

Fotheringham, A. S., Crespo, R. and Yao, J. (2015) Geographical and temporal weighted regression (GTWR). Geographical Analysis, 47(4), pp. 431-452. (doi: 10.1111/gean.12071)

Agadjanian, V., Hayford, S. R., Luz, L. and Yao, J. (2015) Bridging user and provider perspectives: Family planning access and utilization in rural Mozambique. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 130(Supl 3), E47-E51. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2015.03.019) (PMID:26082266)

Fotheringham, A.S., Crespo, R. and Yao, J. (2015) Exploring, modelling and predicting spatiotemporal variations in house prices. Annals of Regional Science, 54(2), pp. 417-436. (doi: 10.1007/s00168-015-0660-6)

Yao, J. and Murray, A. T. (2014) Serving regional demand in facility location. Papers in Regional Science, 93(3), pp. 643-662. (doi: 10.1111/pirs.12013)

Yao, J. , Agadjanian, V. and Murray, A. T. (2014) Spatial and social inequities in {HIV} testing utilization in the context of rapid scale-up of HIV/AIDS services in rural Mozambique. Health and Place, 28, 133 - 141. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.04.007)

Yao, J. and Murray, A. T. (2014) Locational effectiveness of clinics providing sexual and reproductive health services to women in rural Mozambique. International Regional Science Review, 37(2), pp. 172-193. (doi: 10.1177/0160017614524227)

Yao, J. , Murray, A. T. and Agadjanian, V. (2013) A geographical perspective on access to sexual and reproductive health care for women in rural Africa. Social Science and Medicine, 96, 60 - 68. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.07.025)

Yao, J. and Murray, A. T. (2013) Continuous surface representation and approximation: spatial analytical implications. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27(5), pp. 883-897. (doi: 10.1080/13658816.2012.725475)

Cudnik, M., Yao, J. , Murray, A. T., Pennington, S., Andrusiek, D. and Christenson, J. (2012) Does Gis-derived Transport Time Prediction Reflect Actual Transport Times In Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients? Academic Emergency Medicine, 19(S1), S272. (doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01332.x)

Cudnik, M. T., Yao, J. , Zive, D., Newgard, C. and Murray, A. T. (2012) Surrogate markers of transport distance for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients. Prehospital Emergency Care, 16(2), pp. 266-272. (doi: 10.3109/10903127.2011.615009)

Yao, J. , Murray, A., Agadjanian, V. and Hayford, S. R. (2012) Geographic influences on sexual and reproductive health service utilization in rural Mozambique. Applied Geography, 32(2), 601 - 607. (doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.07.009)

Book Sections

Yao, J. and Murray, A. T. (2020) A spatial optimization approach for solving a multi-facility location problem with continuously distributed demand. In: Thill, J.-C. (ed.) Innovations in Urban and Regional Systems. Springer, pp. 113-135. ISBN 9783030436926 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-43694-0_6)

Conference Proceedings

Yao, J. and Zhang, X. (2016) Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Urban Fire Incidents: a Case Study of Nanjing, China. In: XXIII ISPRS Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 12-19 Jul 2016, pp. 63-69. (doi: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XLI-B2-63-2016)

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Grants

  • 2023-2025. PI. A Big Data Approach to Remotely Tracking Global Rangeland Condition Changes. The Royal Society, £11,970. 
  • 2023. PI. Internal Funding for NERC Supporting Interdisciplinarity in Discovery Science. University of Glasgow, £8,791.  
  • 2021-2023. PI. Towards a Healthy Urban Environment: Post-pandemic Urban Public Space Planning, Design and Management. The Royal Society of Edinburgh, £9,800.
  • 2019-2024. Co-I. Urban Big Data Centre. ESRC.
  • 2017-2021. Co-I. GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC). GCRF Research Councils UK Collective Fund.
  • 2017-2019. Co-I. EuroGEOSS-Hub: the European approach to Data Hub for GEOSS. Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme. European Commission.
  • 2016. Postdoctoral and Early Career Researcher Exchanges Funds. Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society, £2,500.
  • 2016-2019. Co-I. The Re-Making of Chinese Urban Neighbourhoods: Socio-Spatial Transformation and Access to Public Services. ESRC.
  • 2015. Glasgow-Nankai Research Exchange Grant. University of Glasgow, £1,500. 
  • 2013-2015. PI. Spatial Optimization Approaches for Solving the Continuous multi‐Weber Problem. National Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥230,000.
  • 2013-2015. Co-I. Continuous Geographic Physical Process Model and its Integration with GIS. National Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥250,000.  

Supervision

PhD students

  • 2023- , Miss Huan Chen, lead supervisor
  • 2023- , Mr Roland Shanks, second supervisor
  • 2018 - 2022: Dr Weicong Luo, lead supervisor, “Measuring and Optimizing Accessibility to Emergency Medical Services”. (Assistant Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University, China)
  • 2018 - 2019: Dr Yuhao Jin (visiting student from Sun Yat-sen University from China). (Associate Professor, South China Agricultural University, China)

Visiting Scholars

  • 2022.12-2023.12, Dr Qiuping Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China
  • 2022.12-2023.02, Dr Yunxia Liu, Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, China
  • 2016.12-2017.12, Dr Xuemei Bi, the Center of Earthquake Emergency Technical Support, Earthquake Administration of Jiangsu, China
  • 2016.01, Prof. Jing Wang, Wuhan University, China

Teaching

Postgraduate

  • Principles and Applications of GIS
  • Programming with GIS
  • Researching the City: Spatial Approaches

Training Courses at Urban Big Data Centre

  • Introduction to R
  • Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis
  • Using R: Statistical Analysis

Research datasets

Jump to: 2023
Number of items: 1.

2023

Wang, Y. P. , Kintrea, K. , Osborne, M. , Schweisfurth, M. , Mitchell, R. , Kamete, A. , Yao, J. , Stewart, A. , Ahmad, S. , Young, G., Nesterova, Y. , Everatt, D., Lynge, H., Abrahams, C., Turok, I., Scheba, A., Visagie, J., Manirakiza, V., Malonza, J., Nduwayezu, G., Mugabe, L., Nsabimana, A., Rutayisire, P., Nzayirambaho, M., Njunwa, J.K., Levira, F., Moshi, I., Msuya, I., Kundu, D., Sharma, P., Debnath, T., Roy, S., Sowgat, T., Islam, T., Shakil, I., Reyes, M., Gamboa, M., Rivera, R., Caluag, A., Manlapas, I., Racoma, D., Sun, T., Zhai, L., Li, C., Liu, Y., Wang, C., Zhang, L., Sun, X., Bhandari, R., Baffoe, G., Lawson, V. and Long, J. (2023) GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods: Household Survey and Neighbourhood Focus Group Data from Seven Asian and African Countries, 2021-2022. [Data Collection]

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Additional information

Editorial Board Member

  • International Journal of Geographical Information Science
  • Transactions in Urban Data, Science, and Technology
  • Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science

Journal Reviewer (selected)

  • International Regional Science Review
  • Geographical Analysis
  • International Journal of Geographical Information Science
  • Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
  • Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • The Annals of Regional Science
  • Applied Geography

Professional Society Membership

  • Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (Council Member)
  • Association of American Geographers 
  • Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society