[GeoIT.org] Invitation to a RAM Colloquium with Dr Guibo Sun (hybrid event)

[Rene Westerholt]

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite everyone interested to the second talk in this term's RAM Colloquium Series:

New metro and subjective wellbeing among older people: a natural experiment in Hong Kong
Dr Guibo Sun (Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong); Thursday, 28 July, 2 pm CEST; hybrid event in room GBIII/214 and on Zoom

We would kindly like to ask you to register via the following Google Form:

https://forms.gle/e6zqz5dTjmiBEJCi6

The RAM Colloquium is a forum for discussing the latest research in the field of geospatial information science and adjoining fields. Invited speakers will report on their recent and ongoing work and provide an outlook on major lines and challenges ahead in their respective fields. This time, Dr Guibo Sun, Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong, will deliver a talk entitled "New metro and subjective wellbeing on older people: a natural experiment in Hong Kong". You will find the abstract below and attached. Do not hesitate to forward this message and the attached PDF invitation to your PhD students, colleagues, and anybody who might be interested in the talk and discussion.

We look forward to lively participation and discussion!
René Westerholt and the RAM team


Abstract:

We used a natural experiment of a new metro line in the high-density city context of Hong Kong to infer causality between public transport use and subjective wellbeing in a cohort of older people. The findings show that the new metro line does promote better subjective wellbeing of older people through the pathways of changes in public transport use. However, our practice-based evidence calls for caution in making general assumptions about older people’s willingness to behavioural changes and show that planning and policy empowering the use of new transport infrastructure would be necessary. Our natural experiment leverages planning and policy knowledge and can help elaborate on complex relationships between transport, health, and wellbeing among older people.

Speaker bio:

Dr Guibo Sun is Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Design, and the founder and director of the Urban Analytics and Interventions Research Lab at the University of Hong Kong. His research interest lies in causal inference in urban interventions’ social and health effects. His research received three academic awards from the UK’s Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) for research excellence. He is currently visiting the Spatial Modelling Lab of the Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University, with Jun.-Prof. Dr Rene Westerholt, to implement a RGC/DAAD jointly funded research project.


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Dr René Westerholt FRGS
[Juniorprofessor]
[Director, Spatial Modelling Lab]

TU Dortmund University
Department of Spatial Planning
Room III/318
August-Schmidt-Straße 10
44227 Dortmund
Germany

[Tel] +49 (0)231 7552287
[Web (uni)] https://ram.raumplanung.tu-dortmund.de/
[Web (private)] https://www.westerholt-giscience.net

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