For our inaugural SAD Interview, we welcome Professor Michael Batty, internationally esteemed scholar of cities, complexity, and urban systems. Professor Batty is Founder and Past Director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, Editor of Environment and Planning B, and 2015 awardee of the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal.

The Spatial Analytics + Data seminar series, brought to you by Newcastle University, Bristol University and The Alan Turing Institute, provides a forum for dialogue among scholars united by interest in geographic data & spatial analysis, as well as a platform for cutting-edge methods and thinking in spatial social science.

Throughout the years, spatial analytics and data have been nurtured by path-breaking scholars from a variety of backgrounds. But, who are these people? What reflections do they have on their experience? How have “Spatial Analytics” and “Data” changed, and what is their future? SAD: The Interviews is a new partnership between the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) through the Quantitative Methods Research Group (QMRG) and the Spatial Analytics and Data (SAD) Seminar Series.

Join us now for SAD: The Interviews, long-form, informal conversations with influencers of our generation of spatial analytics and data for their insights on the evolution (and revolutions) of the field.