Blake Walker
Prof. Dr. Blake Walker
Department of Geography
Professur für Geographie (Digitale Geographie / Kulturgeographie)
Wetterkreuz 15
91058 Erlangen
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-22467
- Fax number: +49 9131 85-22013
- Email: blake.walker@fau.de
- Website: http://www.geographie.nat.uni-erlangen.de/personen/blake-walker/
Office Hours
By appointment.
- Since September 2019: Professor of Human Geography and Digital Transformation, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 2018 to 2019: Guest researcher at the Geography Institute of the Humboldt-University of Berlin
- 2017 to 2018: Guest lecturer at the Geography Institute of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 2017: PhD (Spatial Epidemiology), Geography Department, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
- 2013: MSc (Spatial Epidmiology), Geography Department, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
- 2011 to 2017: Researcher / Sessional Lecturer, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
- 2011: BA (Geographic Analysis), Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
2024
- Kremer, D., Pappenberger-Muench, N., Fuchs, M., Jelinski, S., Feulner, B., & Walker, B. (2024). Rendering Cliché? Visual Consumption of Video Games as Virtual-Space Leisure Activities. In Michael Morawski, Sebastian Wolff-Seidel (Eds.), Gaming and Geography. A Multi-perspective Approach to Understanding the Impacts on Geography (Education). (pp. 137-158). Cham: Springer.
- Kremer, D., Pfeiffer, S., & Walker, B. (2024). Effiziente Zusammenarbeit in den Digital Humanities. Ein Erfahrungsbericht aus drei Jahren Anwendung von Scrum in Forschungskontexten. In Fabian Cremer, Swantje Dogunke, Anna Maria Neubert, Thorsten Wübbena (Hrg.), Projektmanagement und Digital Humanities. Zur klugen Gestaltung der Zusammenarbeit. (S. 153-184). Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press.
- Kremer, D., & Walker, B. (2024). Placing wellbeing: Distant reading approaches for exploratory placial data analysis. In Finn Dammann, Dominik Kremer (Eds.), Geographical Research in the Digital Humanities. Spatial Concepts, Approaches and Methods. (pp. 135-150). Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press.
- Rühl, J., Brinkmann, S., Schaufler, D., Grässel, E., Walker, B., & Kolominsky-Rabas, P. (2024). Räumliche Erreichbarkeit von Gedächtnisambulanzen – Eine geographische Analyse im Rahmen von digiDEM Bayern. Gesundheitswesen, 86(4), 263-273. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2233-6168
- Walker, B. (2024). Petrichor and positionality: Occasion for a situated spatial epidemiology in the digital humanities. In Finn Dammann, Dominik Kremer (Eds.), Geographical Research in the Digital Humanities. Spatial Concepts, Approaches and Methods. (pp. 63-79). Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press.
2023
- Harden, S., Schuurman, N., Larson, H., & Walker, B. (2023). The utility of street view imagery in environmental audits for runnability. Applied Geography, 162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103167
- Harkort, L., Walker, B., & Lakes, T. (2023). Spatiotemporal Patterns of Cyclist Collisions in Germany: Variations in Frequency, Severity of Injury, and Type of Collision in 2019. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-022-09476-w
- Kremer, D., Neuner, A., Jelinski, S., Stadlmeier, A., Schlieder, C., & Walker, B. (2023). Tracing Individual Experiences of Everyday Greenness: Initial Results from the SpaceLog Mobile App. GI_Forum, 11(2), 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1553/giscience2023_02_s47
2022
- Chilla, T., Große, T., Hippe, S., & Walker, B. (2022). COVID-19 incidence in border regions: spatiotemporal patterns and border control measures. Public Health, 202, 80-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.11.006
- Kremer, D., Sonnenwald, D.H., & Walker, B. (2022). Explorative spatial analysis of the function of landscape in video games. In Burghardt M, Dieckmann L, Steyer T, Trilcke P, Walkowski N, Weis J, Wuttke U (Eds.), Fabrikation von Erkenntnis – Experimente in den Digital Humanities. Wolfenbüttel: Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften und Melusina Press.
- Kremer, D., & Walker, B. (2022). Geodaten quantitativ, aber kritisch analysieren – die Methode der explorativen räumlichen Datenanalyse am Beispiel von COVID-19 in Brasilien. In Dammann F, Michel B (Hrg.), Handbuch Kritisches Kartieren. (S. 307-324). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
- Moura de Souza, C., Kremer, D., & Walker, B. (2022). Placial-Discursive Topologies of Violence: Volunteered Geographic Information and the Reproduction of Violent Places in Recife, Brazil. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 11(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11100500
- Schreyer, J., Walker, B., & Lakes, T. (2022). Implementing urban canopy height derived from a TanDEM-X-DEM: An expert survey and case study. Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 187, 345-361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.02.015
- Stadlmeier, A., Kremer, D., & Walker, B. (2022). Experiences of place-bound sociality amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis of environment-related coping strategies. Erdkunde, 76(3). https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2022.03.02
- Walker, B., Brinkmann, S., Große, T., Kremer, D., Schuurman, N., Hystad, P.,... Lear, S.A. (2022). Neighborhood Greenspace and Socioeconomic Risk are Associated with Diabetes Risk at the Sub-neighborhood Scale: Results from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) Study. Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-022-00630-w
- Walker, B., Brinkmann, S., & Kremer, D. (2022). Modelling eye-level visibility of urban green space: Optimising city-wide point-based viewshed computations through prototyping. In Parseliunas E, Mansourian A, Partsinevelos P, Suziedelyte-Visockiene J (Eds.), 25th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science “Artificial Intelligence in the service of Geospatial Technologies” (pp. 27: 1–7). Vilnius, LT.
2021
- Enoguanbhor, E.C., Gollnow, F., Walker, B., Nielsen, J.O., & Lakes, T. (2021). Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria. Land, 10(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/land10050443
- Nobrega Barbosa, K.G., Walker, B., Vieira Da Silva, A., Procopio Gonzaga, G.L., Maio De Brum, E.H., & Ribeiro, M.C. (2021). Spatial-temporal patterns of homicide in socioeconomically deprived settings: violence in Alagoas, Brazil, 2006‒2015. Global Health Action, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.1952752
- Pech, L., Levers, C., Büscher, K., & Walker, B. (2021). Armed conflict and cross-border asymmetries in urban development: A contextualized spatial analysis of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gisenyi, Rwanda. Land Use Policy, 109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105711
2020
- Enoguanbhor, E.C., Gollnow, F., Walker, B., Nielsen, J.O., & Lakes, T. (2020). Simulating Urban Land Expansion in the Context of Land Use Planning in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria. Geo Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-020-10317-x
- Ho, H.C., Man, H.Y., Wong, M.S., Shi, Y., & Walker, B. (2020). Perceived differences in the (re)production of environmental deprivation between sub-populations: A study combining citizens’ perceptions with remote-sensed and administrative data. Building and Environment, 174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.106769
- Scarpone, C., Brinkmann, S.T., Große, T., Sonnenwald, D., Fuchs, M., & Walker, B. (2020). A multimethod approach for county-scale geospatial analysis of emerging infectious diseases: a cross-sectional case study of COVID-19 incidence in Germany. International Journal of Health Geographics, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-020-00225-1
- Schuurman, N., Walker, B., Swanlund, D., Amram, O., & Yanchar, N.L. (2020). Qualitative field observation of pedestrian injury hotspots: A mixed-methods approach for developing built- and socioeconomic-environmental risk signatures. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17062066
- Walker, B., Moura de Souza, C., Pedroso, E., Lai, R.S., Hunter, P., Tam, J.,... Barbosa, K.G.N. (2020). Towards a Situated Spatial Epidemiology of Violence: A Placially-Informed Geospatial Analysis of Homicide in Alagoas, Brazil. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(24). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249283
- Walker, B., Schuurman, N., Swanlund, D., & Clague, J.J. (2020). GIS-based multicriteria evaluation for earthquake response: a case study of expert opinion in Vancouver, Canada. Natural Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04390-1
- Walker, B., Schuurman, N., Wen, C.K., Shakeel, S., Schneider, L., & Finley, C. (2020). Cancer resection rates, socioeconomic deprivation, and geographical access to surgery among urban, suburban, and rural populations across Canada. PLoS ONE, 15(10). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240444
- Wister, A., Rosenkrantz, L., Shashank, A., Walker, B., & Schuurman, N. (2020). Multimorbidity and Socioeconomic Deprivation among Older Adults: A Cross-sectional Analysis in Five Canadian Cities Using the CLSA. Journal of Aging and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/26892618.2020.1734138
2019
- Barbosa, K.G.N., Walker, B., Schuurman, N., Cavalcanti, S.D.L.B., Ferreira e Ferreira, E., & Ferreira, R.C. (2019). Epidemiological and spatial characteristics of interpersonal physical violence in a Brazilian city: A comparative study of violent injury hotspots in familial versus non-familial settings, 2012-2014. PLoS ONE, 14(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208304
- Enoguanbhor, E.C., Gollnow, F., Nielsen, J.O., Lakes, T., & Walker, B. (2019). Land Cover Change in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria: Integrating GIS and Remotely Sensed Data to Support Land Use Planning. Sustainability, 11(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/su11051313
- Walker, B., Canham, S.L., Wister, A., & Fang, M.L. (2019). A GIS Analysis of East Asian Care Gaps in Residential and Assisted Living Facilities in Vancouver, Canada. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 33(2), 103-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/02763893.2018.1534177
- Walker, B., Shashank, A., Gasevic, D., Schuurman, N., Poirier, P., Teo, K.,... Lear, S.A. (2019). The Local Food Environment and Obesity: Evidence from Three Cities. Obesity, 28(1), 40-45. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.22614
- Yafe, E., Walker, B., Amram, O., Schuurman, N., Randall, E., Friger, M., & Adini, B. (2019). Volunteer First Responders for Optimizing Management of Mass Casualty Incidents. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 13(2), 287-294. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2018.56
2018
- Haacke, H., Enssle, F., Helbrecht, I., Lakes, T., & Walker, B. (2018). Cluster analysis for the derivation of agents for ABMs in the context of an ageing , super-diverse population : a mixed-methods approach. In Proceedings of the AGILE 2018. Lund, SE.
2017
- Hung Chak, H., Knudby, A.J., Walker, B., & Henderson, S.B. (2017). Delineation of Spatial Variability in the Temperature–Mortality Relationship on Extremely Hot Days in Greater Vancouver, Canada. Environmental Health Perspectives, 125(1), 66-75. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP224
- Krstic, N., Yuchi, W., Ho, H.C., Walker, B., Knudby, A.J., & Henderson, S.B. (2017). The Heat Exposure Integrated Deprivation Index (HEIDI): A data-driven approach to quantifying neighborhood risk during extreme hot weather. Environment International, 109, 42 - 52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2017.09.011
- Michener, S., Bell, L., Walker, B., & Schuurman, N. (2017). Change detection in bone histology using raster-based geographical information systems. Forensic Science International, 277, 57-58.
- Walker, B., Schuurman, N., Auluck, A., Lear, S., & Rosin, M. (2017). Socioeconomic disparities in head and neck cancer patients' access to cancer treatment centers. Rural and Remote Health, 17(3). https://doi.org/10.22605/RRH4210
2016
- Amram, O., Walker, B., Schuurman, N., Pike, I., & Yanchar, N.L. (2016). Disparities in Paediatric Injury Mortality between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Populations in British Columbia, 2001–2009. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13070651
- Auluck, A., Walker, B., Hislop, G., Lear, S.A., Schuurman, N., & Rosin, M. (2016). Socio-economic deprivation: a significant determinant affecting stage of oral cancer diagnosis and survival. BMC Cancer, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-016-2579-4
- Ruiz-Grosso, P., Miranda, J.J., Gilman, R.H., Walker, B., Carrasco-Escobar, G., Varela-Gaona, M.,... Bernabe-Ortiz, A. (2016). Spatial distribution of individuals with symptoms of depression in a periurban area in Lima: an example from Peru. Annals of Epidemiology, 26(2), 93-99.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2015.11.002
- Walker, B. (2016). Making connections in a tough data scene. Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien, 60(3), 285-287. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12296
- Yuchi, W., Knudby, A.J., Cowper, J., Gombojav, E., Amram, O., Walker, B., & Allen, R.W. (2016). A description of methods for deriving air pollution land use regression model predictor variables from remote sensing data in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien, 60(3), 333-345. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12279
2015
- Schuurman, N., Cinnamon, J., Walker, B., Fawcett, V., Nicol, A., Hameed, S.M., & Matzopoulos, R. (2015). Intentional injury and violence in Cape Town, South Africa: an epidemiological analysis of trauma admissions data. Global Health Action, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.27016
- Walker, B., & Schuurman, N. (2015). The Pen or the Sword: A Situated Spatial Analysis of Graffiti and Violent Injury in Vancouver, British Columbia. Professional Geographer, 67(4), 608-619. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2014.970843
- Walker, B., Schuurman, N., Auluck, A., Lear, S.A., & Rosin, M. (2015). Suburbanisation of oral cavity cancers: Evidence from a geographically-explicit observational study of incidence trends in British Columbia, Canada, 1981-2010. BMC Public Health, 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2111-9
2014
- Auluck, A., Walker, B., Hislop, G., Lear, S.A., Schuurman, N., & Rosin, M. (2014). Population-based incidence trends of oropharyngeal and oral cavity cancers by sex among the poorest and underprivileged populations. BMC Cancer, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-316
- Walker, B., Schuurman, N., & Hameed, S.M. (2014). A GIS-based spatiotemporal analysis of violent trauma hotspots in Vancouver, Canada: Identification, contextualisation and intervention. BMJ Open, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003642
- Walker, B., Taylor-Noonan, C., Tabbernor, A., McKinnon, T., Bal, H., Bradley, D.,... Clague, J.J. (2014). A multi-criteria evaluation model of earthquake vulnerability in Victoria, British Columbia. Natural Hazards, 74(2), 1209-1222. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-014-1240-2
2013
- Walker, B., & Rinner, C. (2013). A qualitative framework for evaluating participation on the Geoweb. URISA Journal, 25(2), 15-24.
2012
- Walker, B., & Schuurman, N. (2012). Environmental correlates with violent injury. Geomatica, 66(4), 269-278. https://doi.org/10.5623/cig2012-053
- GIS and Geographic Information Science in Human Geography / applied critical GIScience
- Human Geography Seminars: Globalisation; Socioeconomics; Health Geography
- Spatial analysis of COVID-19 in Germany
- Social and built-environment risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (in collaboration with the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology Study)
- Local-scale socioeconomic and cultural risk factors for interpersonal violence (various studies in Brazil, Germany, and Canada)
- Digitalisation of placial-cultural narratives in digital media and critical analysis of open worlds in video games
- BMBF (Human Rights)
- REKKE – Resilienz durch Kulturlandschaft im Klimawandel
- VIBRANCE – Violence in Brazil: Analysis of Community Environments
- COVID-19 Narratives
- STAGE – Spatial Transcoding of Artificial Geographical Environments
- DigiDEM
- PURE SPACE – Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology: Spatial Analysis of Cardiovascular Environments
- GEM
- COVID-19