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Dr. Pablo Mateos

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Research

My research interests lie within Population and Urban Geography and my his work focuses on investigating new research methods to study ethnicity/ identity, migration and socio-spatial inequalities in contemporary cities, with a view to informing public policy. My recent work has focused on residential segregation, categorisations of ethnicity, dual citizenship, the geography of names, and the spatial analysis of populations and neighbourhoods in the UK, Spain, US and Mexico. You can read more about my work under the publications section, or in my personal webpage

 

Research projects and funding:

Project

Role

Dates

Funding

ENFOLD (Explaining, modelliNg, and FOrecasting gLobal Dynamics)

Co-Investigator

2010-15

EPSRC large grants (£2.9 million FEC)

between 7 Departments in UCL)

Census Geographic Visualisation (Censusgiv)

Principal Investigator

2008-09

ESRC Census Development Grant (£81,000 FEC)

ESRC CASE Studentship

Co-P.I.

2008-11

ESRC (£66,000)

The Geography of People’s names

Principal Investigator

2007-08

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (£116,000 FEC)

Geogeneaology - Geoweb 2.0 solutions

Named researcher

2006-07

ESRC Impact Grant (£50,000)

Thesis and dissertations:

PhD thesis (2007)  [full thesis 5.8MB file!] [abstract]

'An ontology of ethnicity based upon personal names: with implications for neighbourhood profiling'

MSc dissertation (2004)  [dissertation 2MB! file]

'Mobile Phones: The new (cellular) geography'

 

Biography

I am a Lecturer in Human Geography at the Department of Geography, University College London (UCL), where I am associated with the research group on Mobility, Identity and Security (through the Migration Research Unit) and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).

Current research:

For details about my current work please see my research page.

My background:

I completed my PhD in 2007 at UCL with the topic 'The ontology of ethnicity based upon personal names: with implications for neighbourhood profiling'. In it I developed an improved ontology of ethnicity that maps into reliable measures at the level of the individual, using such measurements to improve public service delivery and support policy applications at neighbourhood level. Prior to that, I obtained a distinction in the MSc in GIS and Human Geography at the University of Leicester in 2004, with a dissertation entitled "Mobile phones; the new cellular geography", developing an alternative method of measuring population mobility in contemporary cities. My undergraduate training consists in two separate degrees in Business Studies (Hull/Madrid, 1994) and in Geography (Madrid, 2001). After a successful management career of 10 years in the logistics sector in several countries, in 2003 I undertook a career change to prepare myself to work in academic research. For more details, see my full academic Curriculum Vitae.

Academic Qualifications:

PhD Geography (2007) University of London UCL, UK

MSc GIS and Human Geography (2004) University of Leicester, UK

BA Geography (2001) Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

BA European Business Studies (1994) Hull, UK – Madrid, Spain

Work Experience:

2008 -          Lecturer in Human Geography, University College London (UCL), UK

2007-08       Postdoctoral Fellow, UCL, London, UK

2004-07       Research Associate, UCL and Camden Primary Care Trust, London, UK

1994-03       Various analyst and management positions in Transportation and Logistics, United Parcel Service in Spain, Benelux and Mexico

Publications

Journal articles

  1. Mateos, P., and Durand, J. (2012) Residence vs. ancestry in acquisition of Spanish citizenship; A ‘netnography’ approach. Migraciones Internacionales, 22 (in press) [article]
  2. Winney, B. Boumertit, A. Day, T. Davison, D Echeta, C. Evseeva, I. Hutnik, K. Leslie, S Nicodemus, K. Royrvik, E. Tonks, S. Yang, X. Cheshire, J. Longley, P. Mateos, P. Groom, A. Relton, C. Bishop, T. Black, K. Northwood, E. Parkinson, E. Frayling, T. Steele, A. Sampson, J. King, T. Dixon, R. Middleton, D. Jennings, B. Bowden, R. Donnelly, P. and Bodmer, W. (2012) People of the British Isles: preliminary analysis of genotypes and surnames in a UK control population. European Journal of Human Genetics 20, 203–210 [article]
  3. Cheshire, J, Mateos, P. and Longley PA, (2011) Delineating Europe’s cultural regions; Population structure and surname clustering, Human Biology, 83 (5) 573-598 [article] [manuscript]
  4. Lakha, F., Gorman D, Mateos, P. (2011) Name analysis to classify populations by ethnicity in public health: Validation of Onomap in Scotland, Public Health 125 (10) 688-696  [article]
  5. Iceland, J., Mateos, P., and Shaw, G. (2011) Ethnic Residential Segregation by Nativity in Great Britainand the United States. Journal of Urban Affairs, 33 (4) 409–429 [article]
  6. Mateos, P., Longley, P.A. and O’Sullivan, D. (2011) Ethnicity and Population Structure in Personal Naming Networks. PloS ONE (Public Library of Science) 6 (9) e22943 [article]
  7. Longley PA, Cheshire, J, and Mateos, P. (2011) Creating a Regional Geography of Britain through the Spatial Analysis of Surnames, Geoforum, 42 (4) 506-516 [article]
  8. Petersen, J, Longley, PA., Gibin, M, Mateos, P, and Atkinson, P. (2011) Names-based classification of accident and emergency department users, Health and Place, 17 (5) 1162-1169 [article]
  9. Mateos, P., De Smith, M., and Singleton, A. (2011) Developments in Quantitative Human Geography, Urban Modelling, and Geographic Information Science,Transactions in GIS, 15 (3) 249-252 [article]
  10. Mateos, P. (2011) Uncertain segregation: the challenge of defining and measuring ethnicity in segregation studies, Built Environment, 37 (2) 226-238 [article]
  11. Vaughan, L., Arbaci, S., and Mateos, P. (2011) Perspectives in urban segregation. Built Environment, 37 (2) 125-127 [article]
  12. Petersen, J, Gibin, M, Longley, PA, Mateos, P, Atkinson, P and Ashby, D. (2011) Geodemographics as a tool for targeting neighbourhoods in public health campaigns.Journal of Geographical Systems 13(2) 173-192 [article]
  13. Aguilar, A.G. and Mateos, P. (2011) Diferenciación Socio-Demográfica del Espacio Urbano de la Ciudad de México [Urban socio-demographic differentiation in Mexico City], EURE (Santiago), 37(110) 5-30 [article]
  14. Mateos, P. (2010) El analisis geodemografico de apellidos en Mexico. [Geodemographic analysis of surnames in Mexico] Papeles de Población 65, 73-103 [article]
  15. Mateos, P, Singleton, A D, Longley, P A. (2009) Uncertainty in the analysis of ethnicity classifications: some issues of extent and aggregation of ethnic groups. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35 (9) 1437-1460 [article]
  16. Mateos, P. And Tucker, D.K. (2008) Forenames and Surnames in Spainin 2004.Names, a Journal of Onomastics, 56 (3) 165-184. [article]
  17. Gibin, M, Singleton, A, Milton, R, Mateos, P, Longley, P A. (2008) An exploratory cartographic visualisation of Londonthrough the Google Maps API, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 1(2) 85-97. [article]
  18. Mateos, P. (2007) A review of name-based ethnicity classification methods and their potential in population studies, Population Space and Place (formerly International Journal of Population Geography), 13 (4): 243-263. [article] doi: 10.1002/psp.457
  19. Mateos, P. (2006) Segregación residencial de minorías étnicas y el análisis geográfico del origen de nombres y apellidos [Residential segregation of ethnic minorities and geographic analysis of name origins], Cuadernos Geográficos, 39(2) 83-101 [article]
  20. Longley P.A. and Mateos, P. (2005) Un nuevo y prominente papel de los SIG y el Geomarketing en la provisión de servicios públicos [A new and prominent role of GIS and Geodemographics in the delivery of public services], GeoFocus, 5, 1-5. [article (Spanish)]

    21. Refereed book chapters

  21. Mateos, P. (forthcoming) The international comparability of ethnicity classifications and its consequences for segregation Studies, in Lloyd, C., Shuttleworth, I. and Wong, D. (eds.) Social-Spatial Segregation: Concepts, Processes and Outcomes, Policy Press:Bristol,UK (forthcoming)
  22. Aguilar, A.G. and Mateos, P. (2011) Segregación socioeconómica en la Ciudad de México; análisis con clusters geodemograficos [Socioeconomic segregation in Mexico City: geodemographic cluster analysis]. in Rodríguez, F. (ed.) Pobreza, Desigualdad y Desarrollo. Conceptos y Aplicaciones, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarías, UNAM: Mexico City (in press)
  23. Mateos, P. (2009) El estudio de migraciones y minorias etnicas a traves del analisis geografico de nombres y apellidos [Studying migrations and ethnic minorities through the geographic analysis of surnames and forenames] in Pons,J.J., Montoro,C.,López,D., Barcenilla,M.C. (ed.) Territorio y Movilidad Interior de la Población Española. Pamplona, Spain: Eunsa, 347-353. ISBN: 978843132639
  24. Gibin, M., Mateos, P., Atkinson, P., Petersen, J. (2009) Google maps mash-ups for local public health service planning, in Geertman, S. and Stillwell, J. (eds.) Planning Support Systems: best practices and new methods, Springer, Amsterdam, pp. 227-242. ISBN: 978-1-4020-8951-0 [doi]
  25. Mateos, P. And Fisher, PF. (2007) Spatiotemporal accuracy in mobile phone location: assessing the new cellular geography, in Drummond, J., Billen, R., Forrest, D. and João, E. (eds.), Dynamic & Mobile GIS: Investigating Change in Space and Time. CRC Taylor & Francis, London, 189-212. ISBN: 0-8493-9092-3 [book]

    26. Book Reviews

  26. Mateos, P (2011) on David Fitzgerald (2009) A Nation of Emigrants: How MexicoManages its Migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37 (10) 1702-1703 [article]
  27. Mateos, P. (2009) on Timothy, D.J. and Guelke, J.K. (2008) Geography and Genealogy.Environment and Planning (B) 36(4) 758-759 [article]
  28. Mateos, P.(2009) on Thomas, B. and Dorling, D. (2007) Identity in Britain. A cradle-to-grave atlas, Environment and Planning (B) 36 (2) 378-380 [article]
  29. Mateos, P. (2006) on Gurría Gascón, J. L., Hernández Carretero, A. y Nieto Masot, A. (2005, Eds.): De lo local a lo global: nuevas tecnologías de la información geográfica para el desarrollo [From local to global: new geographic information technologies for development], GeoFocus, 6, 1-3. ISSN:1578-5157 [article (Spanish)]

    30. Working Papers

  30. Mateos, P. and O'Brien, O. (2011) CensusProfiler - Creating accessible Geovisualizations of the Census of Population, CASA Working Paper 174. University College London [paper]
  31. Cheshire, J. A., Mateos, P., Longley, P.A. (2009) Family names as indicators of Britain’s changing regional geography. CASA Working Paper 149. University College London. [paper]
  32. Lewis, D., Mateos, P., Longley, P. (2009) Choice and the composition of general practice patient registers. CASA Working Paper 150. University College London. [paper]
  33. Gibin, M., Singleton, A.D., Milton, R., Mateos, P., Longley, P.A. (2008), Collaborative Mapping of LondonUsing Google Maps: The LondonProfiler. CASA Working Paper 132. University College London. [paper]
  34. Mateos, P., Webber, R., and Longley, PA. (2007) The Cultural, Ethnic and Linguistic Classification of Populations and Neighbourhoods using Personal Names CASA Working Paper 116, University College London. [paper]

    35. Reports and magazine articles

  35. Salt, J., Latham, A., Mateos P., Dobson, J. and Wood P. (2011) Addressing labour shortages through migration. UKreport to the European Migration Network, Home Office: London, UK. [report]
  36. Mateos, P (2009) Onomap: A multicultural Classification of People’s Names, British Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (BURISA) Newsletter No. 181 Sept. p. 3-6 [index]
  37. McElduff,F., Mateos,P., Wade,A., Cortina-Borja,M. (2008) What’s in a name? The frequency and geographic distributions of UKsurnames. Significance 5(4), 189-192 [article]