Scott Bell - Professor
With Nazeem Muhajarine in Community Health and Epidemiology I am actively recruiting candidates for a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowwhip in Neighbourhood Health. Click here for a copy of the advertisement.
Research Interests
- GIScience and spatial cognition, with a focus on human navigation and wayfinding
- Cognitive maps and how we communicate what we know about the world
- Applied GIS and health geography
I have funded projects examining each of the above topics:
From the Canadian Institutes of Health Research I have a 3 year grant with Kathi Wilson, Nazeem Muhajarine, and Vivian Ramsden to study access to primary health care at the neighbourhood level.
From the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada I have a 3 year grant to examine the role that drawing ability plays in our ability to communicate what we know about the world via hand drawn maps.
With several investigators and Aboelmagd Noureldin as PI I am studying the impact that navigation systems have on our ability to navigate through complex spaces. This project is funded through GEOIDE a National Centres of Excellence program.