Thomas Collins

Thomas Collins

Applied geospatial & behavioural data specialist. Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Environmental Intelligence, University of Exeter.

Publications

Unveiling social vibrancy in urban spaces with app usage

Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14943, 2024

Using high-resolution app-usage data across eighteen French cities, we investigate the relationship between online behaviour and the social dimension of urban space — combining OpenStreetMap-derived urban features with similarity-based time-series clustering of app categories.

Recommended citation: Collins, T., Pacheco, D., Di Clemente, R., & Botta, F. (2024). "Unveiling social vibrancy in urban spaces with app usage." arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14943. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14943

Spatiotemporal gender differences in urban vibrancy

Published in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51(7), 1430-1446, 2024

Using Call Detail Record data across seven Italian cities, we identify how urban vibrancy differs between males and females, how this relates to Points of Interest and transport networks, and how spatial spillovers shape gender-specific urban dynamics.

Recommended citation: Collins, T., Di Clemente, R., Gutiérrez-Roig, M., & Botta, F. (2024). "Spatiotemporal gender differences in urban vibrancy." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51(7), 1430-1446. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23998083231209073

Herring gulls respond to human gaze in urban and rural settlements

Published in Animal Behaviour, Volume 168, pp. 83-88, 2020

How exposure to humans and urbanisation shapes anti-predator behaviour in herring gulls. We tested whether age and urbanisation affected gulls’ aversion to human gaze across rural and built-up sites.

Recommended citation: Goumas, M., Collins, T. R., Fordham, L., Kelley, L. A., & Boogert, N. J. (2020). "Herring gulls respond to human gaze in urban and rural settlements." Animal Behaviour, 168, 83-88. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000334722030244X