Research Profile
Dr Martyn Senior
Position:Reader
School:City and Regional Planning
Email:SeniorML@Cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 76088
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74845
Address:Room 2.78, Glamorgan Building
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 76088
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74845
Address:Room 2.78, Glamorgan Building
Qualifications
BA First Class Honours
PhD in Geography, University of Leeds.
Research Interests
Transport and Planning: Impacts of light rail transit; Travel behaviour and travel demand analysis; Sustainable urban form policies: impacts on travel behaviour, acceptability to residents.
Health: Mortality/morbidity and deprivation; Resource allocation; Variations in primary health care services.
Recent Research Projects
ESRC-funded project on "Residents' preferences for land use mix and development density" (with Chris Webster and Nia Blank), (1999 - 2000)
National Assembly for Wales : "NHS resource allocation review", (2000 - 2003)
Selected Publications
- Residential relocation and sustainable urban form: statistical analyses of owner-occupiers' preferences
- Residential preferences versus sustainable cities: quantitative and qualitative evidence from a survey of relocating owner-occupiers
- The short-term transport impacts of light rail: the evidence of secondary data from Greater Manchester's Metrolink
- Area variations in self-perceived limiting long term illness in Britain, 1991: Is the Welsh experience exceptional?
- Spatial and temporal variation of mortality and deprivation 2: statistical modelling
Additional Information
Martyn Senior is a Reader in the School, and a geographer by training.