Qualifications
Postgraduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching (University of Canterbury)
Doctor of Philosophy (Palacký University Olomouc)
Best Map of 2015
Research Interests
I received my PhD in 2015 from the Department of Geoinformatics at Palacky University in the Czech Republic. In my thesis, I conducted a research study on spatial and spatiotemporal analysis of Campylobacteriosis in the Czech Republic. My main research interest is currently focused on geovisualisation and spatial analyses of health data using spatial and spatiotemporal modelling, and spatial statistics.
I like the interdisciplinary character of Geography and GIS allowing me to work on various projects in completely different fields. So far, I've been using my skills in projects in areas of geohealth, smart cities, landslide monitoring, urban studies, crowdsourcing, mapping, forestry, social networks, archaeology etc. I also have experience in teaching - mostly spatial analysis and geostatistics.
In Sensing City project funded by CRCSI, we examine how air pollution can affect the health of people suffering COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). We aim to create the smart system based on (near) real-time environmental monitoring and individual exposures of patients in order to provide the tool that can inform the public about impaired conditions that may have an effect on their health conditions.
Recent Publications
- Hetrick SE., Hobbs M., Fortune S., Marek L., Wiki J., Boden JM., Theodore R., Ruhe T., Kokaua JJ. and Thabrew H. (2023) Proximity of alcohol outlets and presentation to hospital by young people after self-harm: A retrospective geospatial study using the integrated data infrastructure. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674231203909.
- Hobbs M., Hills S., Marek L., Tipton M. and Barwood M. (2023) Investigating the spatial clustering of drowning events in the United Kingdom: A geospatial cross-sectional study. Applied Geography 158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103006.
- Hobbs M., Marek L., Young A., Willing E., Dawson P. and McIntyre P. (2023) Examining spatial variation for immunisation coverage in pregnant women: A nationwide and geospatial retrospective cohort study in Aotearoa New Zealand. Social Science and Medicine 335 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116228.
- Hobbs M., McLeod GFH., Mackenbach JD., Marek L., Wiki J., Deng B., Eggleton P., Boden JM., Bhubaneswor D. and Campbell M. (2023) Change in the food environment and measured adiposity in adulthood in the Christchurch Health and development birth cohort, Aotearoa, New Zealand: A birth cohort study. Health and Place 83 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103078.
- Marek L. (2023) Kiwis on the move: Exploring residential mobility and environments where New Zealanders live using linked-microdata and spatial data. Christchurch: Spatial Data Science Symposium 2023, 5 Sep 2023.
