Nadine Schuurman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadine Schuurman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadine |
| FAMILY NAME | Schuurman |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUURMAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1362-224X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 426 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Visualizing Recreational Running Geo-Narratives Using Mixed Methods
This study demonstrates the utility of social fitness tracking data for analysis of runner sentiment and proposes a novel approach to integrate narratives from large crowdsourced data into spatial visualization. A lexicon-based sentiment analysis was conducted on 40,623 posts from Strava, a social platform popular for fitness activity tracking, to detect the degree of positive or negative affect expressed in each post. Sentiment values were then …
Cartographic privacy
Numerous quantitative techniques exist for protecting geoprivacy, but often require significant expertise and may not always provide adequate protection. We propose cartographic privacy as a framework for protecting sensitive spatial data. Cartographically private approaches favor using design techniques to obfuscate data rather than statistical ones, appealing to intuitive rather than technical understandings of geoprivacy. We explore this conce…
Run with feeling
This study applies content analysis to Strava runner narratives for the first time. • Findings provide direct insight into the challenges and preferences of runners. • Results suggest the capacity of running to promote wellbeing and sense of community. This study examines features associated with runner sentiment, or feelings, based on qualitative narratives in the form of Strava social media posts among 72 men and 65 women in Metropolitan Vancou…
Spatializing sexual and gender-based violence, gendered mobilities, and the built environment
The utility of street view imagery in environmental audits for runnability
Environmental Preferences and Concerns of Recreational Trail Runners
Trail running is a fast-growing sport, linked to improvements in both physical and psychological well-being. Despite its popularity, the preferences of trail runners are not well known. The objective of this study was to examine the environmental preferences and concerns of trail runners with respect to age and gender. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of recreational trail runners. A total of 548 people responded, of which 50.1% of responden…
Problems with quantitative categorization
As data science gains traction, it often brings quantitative approaches and positivist epistemologies. While these can generate powerful insights, we argue for methodological hybridity in modern data science. We demonstrate the power of complementary qualitative approaches and flexible ontologies. Using an example of classifying segmentsTM on Strava, neither quantitative nor qualitative approaches alone were adequate to meaningfully classify segm…
Creation of a rough runnability index using an affordance-based framework
Running is one of the most popular forms of physical activity. To date, no literature explores association between the features of the built environment and running. A limited amount of literature uses walkability as a proxy for runnability, thereby misjudging the differing goals of walking and running: leisure, sport or commute. We create a rough runnability index using an affordance-based framework as a conceptual and methodological attempt to …
Neighborhood Characteristics Associated with Running in Metro Vancouver
Running can improve physical health and psychological wellbeing. However, the characteristics of conducive running environments are relatively unknown. This study determines neighborhood factors that attract running and explores how age and gender mediate built environment preferences. Spatial patterns of runners in Metro Vancouver were identified using crowdsourced fitness data from Strava, a popular application for tracking physical activities.…
Neighborhood Greenspace and Socioeconomic Risk are Associated with Diabetes Risk at the Sub-neighborhood Scale
Greenspace and socioeconomic status are known correlates of diabetes prevalence, but their combined effects at the sub-neighborhood scale are not yet known. This study derives, maps, and validates a combined socioeconomic/greenspace index of individual-level diabetes risk at the sub-neighborhood scale, without the need for clinical measurements. In two Canadian cities (Vancouver and Hamilton), we computed 4 greenspace variables from satellite ima…
Environmental Preferences and Concerns of Recreational Road Runners
Recreational road running is growing in popularity and has been linked to numerous mental and physical health benefits. However, we know little about what environmental preferences or concerns runners have regarding participation in the sport, and whether differences exist across age and gender. We conducted a cross-sectional survey on recreational road runners to investigate the type of built and natural environments road runners prefer, as well…
Qualitative Field Observation of Pedestrian Injury Hotspots
Road traffic injuries constitute a significant global health burden; the World Health Organization estimates that they result in 1.35 million deaths annually. While most pedestrian injury studies rely predominantly on statistical modelling, this paper argues for a mixed-methods approach combining spatial analysis, environmental scans, and local knowledge for assessing environmental risk factors. Using data from the Nova Scotia Trauma Registry, se…
The need for GIScience in mapping Covid-19
Multimorbidity and Socioeconomic Deprivation among Older Adults
Individual socioeconomic status is known to correlate with multimorbidity, but the role of neighbourhood-level socioeconomic deprivation is uncertain. Participants from five cities (n = 16,313) from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging were mapped by postal code and their local area socioeconomic deprivation scores were calculated using the Vancouver Area Neighbourhood Deprivation Index. Logistic regression models were used to estimate depriv…
Social Media Big Data Acquisition and Analysis for Qualitative GIScience
Qualitative geographic information systems (GIS) have come a long way since the original call from critical GIS scholars in the 1990s. The invention of the geoweb as well as big data sources for qualitative information have enabled qualitative GIS to actually be implemented. Academic researchers are now grappling with how best to engage with and use qualitative spatial data. Our focus is on using qualitative data from social media sources. We rev…
Salute to Reviewers 2017–2018/ Hommage aux évaluateurs de 2017–2018
Unpacking walkability indices and their inherent assumptions
Resisting geosurveillance
Geosurveillance is continually intensifying, as techniques are developed to siphon ever-increasing amounts of data about individuals. Here we survey three tactics and three strategies for resistance in an attempt to provoke greater discussion about resistance to geosurveillance. Tactics explored include data minimization, obfuscation, and manipulation. Strategies for resisting geosurveillance build upon other forms of resistance and include exami…
Critical GIScience
Critical GIScience encompasses a range of geographic information systems (GIS) research that focuses not so much on algorithmic or computational advances, but rather on the social implications of and social biases inherent in the science, technology, and their deployments. First posited as a separate strand of research in 1999, it slowly evolved into a recognized component of GIScience with its own themes, researchers, and advocates. Theoreticall…
The development of a spatial palliative care index instrument for assessing population-level need for palliative care services
Linking online social proximity and workplace location
Online professional networks have the potential to expedite and expand the success of corporations and, especially, socially oriented enterprises – such as non‐governmental organisations ( NGO s) and social enterprises, which are businesses owned and operated by a non‐profit. Research to date has not examined the extent and composition of online professional social networks among social enterprise employees nor their inter‐relationships. Specific…
Area-Based Topic Modeling and Visualization of Social Media for Qualitative GIS
Qualitative geographic information systems (GIS) has progressed in meaningful ways since early calls for a qualitative GIS in the 1990s. From participatory methods to the invention of the participatory geoweb and finally to geospatial social media sources, the amount of information available to nonquantitative GIScientists has grown tremendously. Recently, researchers have advanced qualitative GIS by taking advantage of new data sources, like Twi…
Disparities in Paediatric Injury Mortality between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Populations in British Columbia, 2001–2009
Injury is the leading cause of death among children and youth in Canada. Significant disparities in injury mortality rates have been observed between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations, but little is known about the age-, sex-, and mechanism-specific patterns of injury causing death. This study examines paediatric mortality in British Columbia from 2001 to 2009 using comprehensive vital statistics registry data. We highlight important disp…
Revisiting the use of ‘place’ as an analytic tool for elucidating geographic issues central to Canadian rural palliative care
Guidelines for creating framework data for GIS analysis in low‐ and middle‐income countries
Key Messages While some framework data are available in LMICs, there is a lack of coordinated effort to create and share these data to support health GIS research in these settings. Manual digitizing can be used to generate framework data, and is increasingly becoming cheaper and faster due to widely available free satellite imagery and open mapping standards that allow distributed data capture. Efforts to create framework data should be done in …
Trouble in the heartland
GIS eased into geography without much discord until the 1990s, when a flurry of commentaries about the relative merits of GIS made their way into a number of geographic journals. The ensuing decade was marked by varying degrees of friction between GIS practitioners and their critics in human geography. Despite the methodological chasm between the two groups, little discussion of the implications of these differences has ensued. This article fills…
Care of the Subject
(2002). Care of the Subject: Feminism and Critiques of GIS. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 291-299
Formalization Matters
There have been several obstacles to an embrace of critical theoretical work in GIScience; chief among them is the barrier between conceptualization and formalization. Early critics of the technology were not cognizant that technological change must be implemented within the language of code. While critics expressed their concerns in a theoretical and esoteric language, increasingly GIScientists are at pains to address the same issues so that sol…
Deprivation Indices, Population Health and Geography
Hidden homelessness
Women and technology in geography
Measuring potential spatial access to primary health care physicians using a modified gravity model
Ensuring equity of access to primary health care (PHC) across Canada is a continuing challenge, especially in rural and remote regions. Despite considerable attention recently by the World Health Organization, Health Canada and other health policy bodies, there has been no nation‐wide study of potential (versus realized) spatial access to PHC. This knowledge gap is partly attributable to the difficulty of conducting the analysis required to accur…
Confronting the data-divide in a time of spatial turns and volunteered geographic information
Unpacking walkability indices and their inherent assumptions
Database Ethnographies Using Social Science Methodologies to Enhance Data Analysis and Interpretation
Data are the basis for many decisions ranging from assessing credit applications, to determining societal risk of criminals to adjudicating grant applications. Data collection and use constitute social practices, yet once data are placed in tables, their social lineage is forgotten. Database ethnographies are a unique means of using insights from science and technology studies and practices from the social sciences to enhance data analysis. The g…
Resisting geosurveillance
Geosurveillance is continually intensifying, as techniques are developed to siphon ever-increasing amounts of data about individuals. Here we survey three tactics and three strategies for resistance in an attempt to provoke greater discussion about resistance to geosurveillance. Tactics explored include data minimization, obfuscation, and manipulation. Strategies for resisting geosurveillance build upon other forms of resistance and include exami…
The need for GIScience in mapping Covid-19
Work, life, and creativity among academic geographers
Towards the construction of place‐specific measures of deprivation
There have been numerous attempts to measure population health outcomes using socio‐economic indicators. Few investigations have utilized a survey‐based approach. This article develops a new means for identifying key socio‐economic indicators of relative health outcomes within greater Vancouver, British Columbia (BC). The index, referred to as the Vancouver Area Neighbourhood Deprivation Index (VANDIX), was constructed from a survey of provincial…
Databases and Bodies
Area-Based Topic Modeling and Visualization of Social Media for Qualitative GIS
Qualitative geographic information systems (GIS) has progressed in meaningful ways since early calls for a qualitative GIS in the 1990s. From participatory methods to the invention of the participatory geoweb and finally to geospatial social media sources, the amount of information available to nonquantitative GIScientists has grown tremendously. Recently, researchers have advanced qualitative GIS by taking advantage of new data sources, like Twi…
Implications of smartphone usage on privacy and spatial cognition
The New Brave New World
office at the University of California, Santa Barbara.(1) We spoke of the debates that were raging in geography about the role of GIS with an emphasis on identifying productive ways of engaging GIScientists with their critics from human geography. Among the issues that emerged were individual privacy, epistemology, infrastructural changes wrought by localized data collection, and Big Science. Ten years later I interviewed Professor Goodchild agai…
Spatially informed knowledge translation
Speaking with the enemy? A conversation with Michael Goodchild
Social Media Big Data Acquisition and Analysis for Qualitative GIScience
Qualitative geographic information systems (GIS) have come a long way since the original call from critical GIS scholars in the 1990s. The invention of the geoweb as well as big data sources for qualitative information have enabled qualitative GIS to actually be implemented. Academic researchers are now grappling with how best to engage with and use qualitative spatial data. Our focus is on using qualitative data from social media sources. We rev…
Mechanism Matters
Recent revelations of dragnet surveillance by governments around the world have brought attention to privacy and surveillance in their many forms. In this article, we outline the technical mechanisms of geosurveillance to synthesize and inform on a constantly moving target. Despite their interconnections and overlap, to simplify and elucidate these geosurveillance mechanisms, we classify them into three parts: geolocation, unique identification, …
A protocol for determining differences in consistency and depth of palliative care service provision across community sites
Numerous accounts document the difficulty in obtaining accurate data regarding the extent and composition of palliative care services. Compounding the problem is the lack of standardisation regarding categorisation and reporting across jurisdictions. In this study, we gathered both quantitative and spatial--or geographical--data to develop a composite picture that captures the extent, composition and depth of palliative care in the Canadian provi…
Providers’ perceptions of Aboriginal palliative care in British Columbia’s rural interior
Aboriginal Canadians experience a disproportionate burden of ill-health and have endured a history of racism in accessing and using health care. Meanwhile, this population is rapidly growing, resulting in an urgent need to facilitate better quality of living and dying in many ways, including through enhancing (cultural) access to palliative care. In this article, we report the findings from a qualitative case study undertaken in rural British Col…
Assessing the suitability of host communities for secondary palliative care hubs
Contesting Patriarchies
In the second half of the nineteenth century, a number of First Nations (Native) women in the southern interior of British Columbia began to live with and marry white settlers and gold miners. Demographic shifts in both white and Native populations, paired with the precedent of liaisons between fur traders and Native women, contributed to the mobility of Native women. Their departure from indigenous communities was, however, bitterly contested by…
Trouble in the Heartland
If we could bring ourselves to accept the fact that no theory about the nature of Man or Society or Rationality, or anything else, is going to synthesize Nietzsche with Marx or Heidegger with Habermas, we could begin to think of the relation between writers on autonomy and writers on justice as being like the relation between two kinds of tools -as little in need of synthesis as are paintbrushes and crowbars Both are right, but there is no way to…
Speaking with the enemy? A conversation with Michael Goodchild
An Interview with Michael Goodchild, January 6, 1998, Santa Barbara, California
Guest Editorial
Trouble in the heartland
GIS eased into geography without much discord until the 1990s, when a flurry of commentaries about the relative merits of GIS made their way into a number of geographic journals. The ensuing decade was marked by varying degrees of friction between GIS practitioners and their critics in human geography. Despite the methodological chasm between the two groups, little discussion of the implications of these differences has ensued. This article fills…
Flexible Standardization
Semantic standardization is an integral part of sharing data for GIS and spatial analysis. It is part of a broader rubric of interoperability or the ability to share geographic information across multiple platforms and contexts. GIScience researchers have made considerable progress towards understanding and addressing the multiple challenges involved in achieving interoperability. For local government agencies interested in sharing spatial data, …
Care of the Subject
(2002). Care of the Subject: Feminism and Critiques of GIS. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 291-299
Women and technology in geography
The ghost in the machine
It has been a number of years since a paper on geographic information science (GIS)(as opposed to applications) appeared in The Canadian Geographer—a long dry spell or relief from an increasingly technical disciplinary focus, depending on your point of view. For those of you who lean toward the latter perspective this issue serves as an oeuvre to GIS and spatial representation as a way of communicating and integrating data from multiple disciplin…
The Utility of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis in the Study of Tuberculosis Incidences in an Urban Canadian Population
Human health is a key determinant of individual quality of life and effective national economic development. Public health management and disease control are important responsibilities for governments and decision makers. In this study, a GIS-based exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) process is used to provide insights into the demographic factors associated with incidences of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) in the Greater Vancouver Regional…
Introduction
GIS has witnessed tremendous development in the last decade or so. As the reach of GIS technologies and applications expanded, its effect is also increasingly felt by a variety of individuals and social groups far beyond the realm of the research community. Critics of GIS have identified various social consequences associated with the use and development of GIS, while GIS scientists and researchers have responded to these criticisms through new i…
Databases and Bodies
Social Perspectives on Semantic Interoperability
Much attention has been paid by government agencies and GIS researchers to standardization of data and interoperability of systems. Many of these efforts, however, have focused narrowly on technical hurdles while ignoring the social and political contexts that influence interoperability decisions. This article illustrates how social factors influence interoperability along three axes: classification, ontologies of data models, and government poli…
Size matters
Hidden homelessness
Spatial/temporal mismatch
The Canada census is one of the chief sources of demographic and socio‐economic data for researchers in this country. Census variables are linked to geography files that allow researchers using geographic information systems (GIS) to view and analyze spatial data. Some of the most useful analysis, however, is based on changes in attribute values over time and space. Analysis of spatio‐ temporal events such as shifting migration patterns or change…
Formalization Matters
There have been several obstacles to an embrace of critical theoretical work in GIScience; chief among them is the barrier between conceptualization and formalization. Early critics of the technology were not cognizant that technological change must be implemented within the language of code. While critics expressed their concerns in a theoretical and esoteric language, increasingly GIScientists are at pains to address the same issues so that sol…
Scale and Geographic Inquiry
Comparing circular and network buffers to examine the influence of land use on walking for leisure and errands
BACKGROUND: There is increasing interest in examining the influence of the built environment on physical activity. High-resolution data in a geographic information system is increasingly being used to measure salient aspects of the built environment and studies often use circular or road network buffers to measure land use around an individual's home address. However, little research has examined the extent to which the selection of circular or r…
Deprivation Indices, Population Health and Geography
Towards the construction of place‐specific measures of deprivation
There have been numerous attempts to measure population health outcomes using socio‐economic indicators. Few investigations have utilized a survey‐based approach. This article develops a new means for identifying key socio‐economic indicators of relative health outcomes within greater Vancouver, British Columbia (BC). The index, referred to as the Vancouver Area Neighbourhood Deprivation Index (VANDIX), was constructed from a survey of provincial…
Alt.metadata.health
Database Ethnographies Using Social Science Methodologies to Enhance Data Analysis and Interpretation
Data are the basis for many decisions ranging from assessing credit applications, to determining societal risk of criminals to adjudicating grant applications. Data collection and use constitute social practices, yet once data are placed in tables, their social lineage is forgotten. Database ethnographies are a unique means of using insights from science and technology studies and practices from the social sciences to enhance data analysis. The g…
“It’s not necessarily the distance on the map...”
Geography (47 works) · Computer Science (38 works) · Medicine (33 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (28 works) · Political science (24 works) · Environmental health (21 works) · Data science (20 works) · Cartography (19 works) · Population (16 works)