Professor Joao Porto de Albuquerque

  • Professor in Urban Analytics (Urban Studies)

email: Joao.Porto@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

7 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, G12 8RZ

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3160-3168

Biography

Professor João Porto de Albuquerque is Professor in Urban Analytics at Urban Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, and he is a Deputy Director of the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC). Professor Porto de Albuquerque is a geographer and computer scientist with an interdisciplinary background. His research adopts a transdisciplinary approach to participatory urban analytics, intersecting urban studies, digital geographies, geographic information science, data science, information systems management and development studies. His approach is underpinned by the investigation of new methods that bridge critical and geo-computational perspectives to include a plurality of voices in urban data analytics, with the goal of enabling transformations to urban sustainability and climate resilience.

Professor Porto de Albuquerque is leading a research programme centred around the empowerment of vulnerable and deprived communities with citizen-generated data to improve resilience to health and environmental risks. His transdisciplinary research on socio-ecological-technical urban systems not only emphasises cross-border collaboration between the (environmental) sciences, social sciences and humanities; it also goes beyond academic disciplines to engage in co-production and participatory research with non-academic societal/indigenous stakeholders.

He has secured competitive research funds for his research in excess of £3.8m as lead investigator (£13m+ as co-investigator) from diverse national and international funding bodies (e.g. Global Challenges Research Fund, Leverhulme Trust, AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, Belmont Forum, NIHR, EU H2020, FAPESP, CAPES) in collaboration with academic and non-academic partners in several countries, including Australia, Brazil, Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, Germany, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United States. Before coming to Glasgow, Prof Porto de Albuquerque worked at the University of Warwick as Co-Director of the Warwick institute for the Science of Cities, and Professor and Director of the Institute for Global Sustainable Development, which he has established as a transdisciplinary cross-faculty hub. He has also set up the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme “TRANSFORM: Transformations of Human-Environment Interactions to Sustainable Development” aimed at training the next generation of sustainability scientists in collaboration with colleagues from different disciplines including computer science, ecology, urban geography, media studies and environmental humanities.

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Background

After studying Computer Science, Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Campinas, Brazil, Prof Porto de Albuquerque did a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Campinas and in the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany (2006). He was awarded a prestigious fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2006-2008) to conduct post-doctoral research in social studies of information systems at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and at the Information Systems Group of the London School of Economics and Politics (LSE). He worked as Assistant Professor at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of the University of São Paulo (2008-2010) and at the Department of Computer Systems of the Institute of Mathematical and Computing Sciences of the University of São Paulo (2010-2015), Brazil. From 2013-2016 he acted as a Visiting Professor in Geographic Information Science at the Institute of Geography of Heidelberg University, Germany with a fellowship funded by the DFG’s Excellence Programme. In 2016, João took up the post of Associate Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick to lead the MSc in Urban Analytics and Visualisation, in which he played a pivotal role in curriculum development in partnership with Warwick's Department of Computer Science. He was also Co-Director of the Warwick Institute for the Science of Cities and Warwick Director of the Centre for Urban Science and Progress London (CUSP London) in partnership with King's College London and New York University. Between January 2019 and September 2021, he was Professor and Director of the Institute for Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick.

Research interests

  • Participatory urban analytics.
  • Climate action and adaptation in cities.
  • Urban resilience and sustainable development.
  • Disasters studies and resilience to natural hazards.
  • Informal settlements, slums and deprived neighbourhood regeneration.
  • Digital geography and critical data studies.
  • Social media analytics.
  • Participatory mapping and community data generation.
  • Citzen science and volunteered/crowdsourced geographic information.
  • Spatial data analysis of urban resilience and health.

 

 

Publications

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2021

Camargo de Andrade, S., Porto de Albuquerque, J. , Restrepo-Estrada, C., Westerholt, R., Augusto Morales Rodriguez, C., Mario Mendiondo, E. and Cláudio Botazzo Delbem, A. (2021) The effect of intra-urban mobility flows on the spatial heterogeneity of social media activity: investigating the response to rainfall events. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, (doi: 10.1080/13658816.2021.1957898) (Early Online Publication)

Houlden, V., Porto de Albuquerque, J. , Weich, S. and Jarvis, S. (2021) Does nature make us happier? A spatial error model of greenspace types and mental wellbeing. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 48(4), pp. 655-670. (doi: 10.1177/2399808319887395)

Klonner, C., Hartmann, M., Dischl, R., Djami, L., Anderson, L., Raifer, M., Lima-Silva, F., Castro Degrossi, L., Zipf, A. and Porto de Albuquerque, J. (2021) The sketch map tool facilitates the assessment of OpenStreetMap data for participatory mapping. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 10(3), 130. (doi: 10.3390/ijgi10030130)

Herfort, B., Lautenbach, S., Porto de Albuquerque, J. , Anderson, J. and Zipf, A. (2021) The evolution of humanitarian mapping within the OpenStreetMap community. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 3037. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-82404-z) (PMID:33542423) (PMCID:PMC7862441)

Camargo de Andrade, S., Restrepo-Estrada, C., Henrique Nunes, L., Augusto Morales Rodriguez, C., Cézar Estrella, J., Cláudio Botazzo Delbem, A. and Porto de Albuquerque, J. (2021) A multicriteria optimization framework for the definition of the spatial granularity of urban social media analytics. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 35(1), pp. 43-62. (doi: 10.1080/13658816.2020.1755039)

Yeboah, G. et al. (2021) Analysis of OpenStreetMap data quality at different stages of a participatory mapping process: Evidence from slums in Africa and Asia. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 10(4), 265. (doi: 10.3390/ijgi10040265)

2020

Horita, F., Baptista, J. and Porto de Albuquerque, J. (2020) Exploring the use of IoT data for heightened Situational Awareness in centralised monitoring control rooms. Information Systems Frontiers, (doi: 10.1007/s10796-020-10075-8) (Early Online Publication)

Thomson, D. R. et al. (2020) Need for an Integrated Deprived Area “Slum” Mapping System (IDEAMAPS) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Social Sciences, 9(5), 80. (doi: 10.3390/socsci9050080)

Kuffer, M. et al. (2020) The role of Earth observation in an Integrated Deprived Area Mapping “System” for low-to-middle income countries. Remote Sensing, 12(6), 982. (doi: 10.3390/rs12060982)

Viale Pereira, G. et al. (2020) South American expert roundtable: Increasing adaptive governance capacity for coping with unintended side effects of digital transformation. Sustainability, 12(2), 718. (doi: 10.3390/su12020718)

2019

Houlden, V., Porto de Albuquerque, J. , Weich, S. and Jarvis, S. (2019) A spatial analysis of proximate greenspace and mental wellbeing in London. Applied Geography, 109, 102036. (doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.102036)

Lilford, R., Kyobutungi, C., Ndugwa, R., Sartori, J., Watson, S. I., Sliuzas, R., Kuffer, M., Hofer, T., Porto de Albuquerque, J. and Ezeh, A. (2019) Because space matters: conceptual framework to help distinguish slum from non-slum urban areas. BMJ Global Health, 4(2), e001267. (doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001267)

2007

Marques Figueira Filho, F., Porto de Albuquerque, J. , Licio de Geus, P. and Krumm, H. (2007) A Policy-Based Framework for Interoperable Digital Content Management. In: 2007 4th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 11-13 Jan 2007, ISBN 1-4244-0667-6 (doi: 10.1109/ccnc.2007.191)

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Number of items: 13.

Articles

Camargo de Andrade, S., Porto de Albuquerque, J. , Restrepo-Estrada, C., Westerholt, R., Augusto Morales Rodriguez, C., Mario Mendiondo, E. and Cláudio Botazzo Delbem, A. (2021) The effect of intra-urban mobility flows on the spatial heterogeneity of social media activity: investigating the response to rainfall events. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, (doi: 10.1080/13658816.2021.1957898) (Early Online Publication)

Houlden, V., Porto de Albuquerque, J. , Weich, S. and Jarvis, S. (2021) Does nature make us happier? A spatial error model of greenspace types and mental wellbeing. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 48(4), pp. 655-670. (doi: 10.1177/2399808319887395)

Klonner, C., Hartmann, M., Dischl, R., Djami, L., Anderson, L., Raifer, M., Lima-Silva, F., Castro Degrossi, L., Zipf, A. and Porto de Albuquerque, J. (2021) The sketch map tool facilitates the assessment of OpenStreetMap data for participatory mapping. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 10(3), 130. (doi: 10.3390/ijgi10030130)

Herfort, B., Lautenbach, S., Porto de Albuquerque, J. , Anderson, J. and Zipf, A. (2021) The evolution of humanitarian mapping within the OpenStreetMap community. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 3037. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-82404-z) (PMID:33542423) (PMCID:PMC7862441)

Camargo de Andrade, S., Restrepo-Estrada, C., Henrique Nunes, L., Augusto Morales Rodriguez, C., Cézar Estrella, J., Cláudio Botazzo Delbem, A. and Porto de Albuquerque, J. (2021) A multicriteria optimization framework for the definition of the spatial granularity of urban social media analytics. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 35(1), pp. 43-62. (doi: 10.1080/13658816.2020.1755039)

Yeboah, G. et al. (2021) Analysis of OpenStreetMap data quality at different stages of a participatory mapping process: Evidence from slums in Africa and Asia. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 10(4), 265. (doi: 10.3390/ijgi10040265)

Horita, F., Baptista, J. and Porto de Albuquerque, J. (2020) Exploring the use of IoT data for heightened Situational Awareness in centralised monitoring control rooms. Information Systems Frontiers, (doi: 10.1007/s10796-020-10075-8) (Early Online Publication)

Thomson, D. R. et al. (2020) Need for an Integrated Deprived Area “Slum” Mapping System (IDEAMAPS) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Social Sciences, 9(5), 80. (doi: 10.3390/socsci9050080)

Kuffer, M. et al. (2020) The role of Earth observation in an Integrated Deprived Area Mapping “System” for low-to-middle income countries. Remote Sensing, 12(6), 982. (doi: 10.3390/rs12060982)

Viale Pereira, G. et al. (2020) South American expert roundtable: Increasing adaptive governance capacity for coping with unintended side effects of digital transformation. Sustainability, 12(2), 718. (doi: 10.3390/su12020718)

Houlden, V., Porto de Albuquerque, J. , Weich, S. and Jarvis, S. (2019) A spatial analysis of proximate greenspace and mental wellbeing in London. Applied Geography, 109, 102036. (doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.102036)

Lilford, R., Kyobutungi, C., Ndugwa, R., Sartori, J., Watson, S. I., Sliuzas, R., Kuffer, M., Hofer, T., Porto de Albuquerque, J. and Ezeh, A. (2019) Because space matters: conceptual framework to help distinguish slum from non-slum urban areas. BMJ Global Health, 4(2), e001267. (doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001267)

Conference Proceedings

Marques Figueira Filho, F., Porto de Albuquerque, J. , Licio de Geus, P. and Krumm, H. (2007) A Policy-Based Framework for Interoperable Digital Content Management. In: 2007 4th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 11-13 Jan 2007, ISBN 1-4244-0667-6 (doi: 10.1109/ccnc.2007.191)

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Grants

Current grants

PI UKRI Collective Fund, Global Challenges Research Fund “URBE Latam: Understanding Risks and Enhancing Capabilities in Latin American Cities”, (£989,192, awarded Nov/2019-Oct/2022), with Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/UFRJ, Brazil and University of Antioquia, Colombia. Grant ES/T003294/1.

PI (Main Applicant) Belmont Forum/Norface/ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund/FAPESP/BMBF “Waterproofing Data: engaging stakeholders in sustainable flood risk governance for urban resilience”, (€1m, awarded Oct/2018-June/2022). 

Co-PI UKRI Collective Fund, GCRF Global Research Translation Awards, “Translating Waterproofing Data”, (£370K, awarded Oct/2019-Dec/2021) with the National Disaster Monitoring and Early-Warning Centre/Cemaden and Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil. Grant EP/T015683/1.

Co-I EU H2020-SU-SEC-2020 “RiskPACC: Integrating Risk Perception and Action to enhance Civil protection-Citizen interaction” (€5.5m, awarded Sep/2021-Ago/2024, PI: Dr Claudia Berchtold/Fraunhofer INT).

Co-I AHRC/DfID “Data and Displacement: Assessing the Practical and Ethical Implications of Targeting Humanitarian Protection” (£393,391, awarded Jul/2020-Jun/2022, PI: Prof Vicki Squire/Warwick). Grant AH/T007516/1.

Co-I/UK PI, JPI Urban Europe SUGI: “Creating Interfaces: Building capacity for integrated governance at the Food-Water-Energy-nexus in cities on the water”, (€1.2 m, overall PI Dr Jochen Wendel/European Institute for Energy Research, Germany), Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative - Food-Water-Energy Nexus (SUGI-FWE Nexus), Belmont Forum.

Past grants (selection)

PI Leverhulme Trust “TRANSFORM: Transformations of Human-Environment Interactions to Sustainable Development” (£1.35m, awarded Oct/2021-Sep/2026). Awarded 15 Doctoral Scholarships to create a transdisciplinary programme in Global Sustainable Development.

Co-PI UKRI GCRF "Integrated Deprived Area Mapping System (IDEAMAPS) Network" (£144,595, awarded May/2020-April/2021).

Co-I: NIHR Global Health Unit on Improving Health in Slums at the University of Warwick (PI Richard Lilford/Warwick Medical School, £5.6m, managed budget £600K). National Institute for Health Research, awarded Jun 2017-Mar 2021. Leading WP1: Geo-spatial mapping of health services in slums and working with partners in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan.

Supervision

I'm interested in supervising PhD students in urban analytics and would particularly welcome methodological interests in combining participatory/action research and spatial data analysis, including citizen-generated data/open collaborative mapping platforms (e.g. OpenStreetMap) and how they can be used to empower marginalised groups and to address inequalities in society and in data. Thematically, I'm interested in urban nieghbourhood regeneration, climate and disaster resilience, and urban sustainability in cities across the global North and global South.

Teaching

Courses

Professional activities & recognition

Research fellowships

  • 2018 - 2021: Turing Fellowship, Alan Turing Institute
  • 2014 - 2017: Visiting Professor Fellowship, Heidelberg University within the DFG Excellence Initiative Programme
  • 2016: Fellowship Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities Programme, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
  • 2006 - 2008: Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 2003 - 2005: DAAD Research Stay Fellowship

Grant committees & research advisory boards

  • 2020: UKRI, Future Leaders Fellow Peer Review College
  • 2020: UKRI, Global Challenges Research Fund Strategic Advisory Group
  • 2020: WWTF/Vienna Science and Technology Fund, Environmental Systems Programme
  • 2016: NERC, Highlight Topic 2016 Panel Member

Editorial boards

  • 2019: Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Regional Science
  • 2018: Brazilian Administration Review

Professional & learned societies

  • 2018: Fellow, Royal Geographical Society
  • 2011: Member, International Association for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Professor in Urban Analytics