Professor Martin Bell

Professor Martin Bell
Professor Martin Bell

Position

Professor of Human Geography

Contact

Room:   35-535
Phone: 336-57087
Fax: 336-56899
Email: martin.bell@uq.edu.au
Web-page: http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/bellmj.html

Qualifications

  • BA(Hons)
  • MA Flinders
  • PhD Queensland

Professional Associations

  • Director, Queensland Centre for Population Research
  • Australian Research Council: Council Member: SBE Panel
  • Past President, Australian Population Association
  • Co-Director, Australian Centre for Population Research
  • Panel member, IUSSP Scientific Panel on Migration and Urbanization

Background

Professor Bell joined the University of Queensland in 2001 following previous appointments at the University of Adelaide and in the Australian Government sector.

Research Interests

Professor Bell is a demographer and population geographer with interests in population mobility and internal migration, demographic projections and forecasts, regional and local population change and population models and methods of analysis.

Selected Publications

Taylor, J. & Bell, M. [2011]: ‘Towards comparative measures of circulation’, Population, Space and Place, Published in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/psp.695

Wilson, T. & Bell, M. [2011]: ‘Advances in local and small area demographic modelling’, Editorial Introduction to a Special Issue of the Journal of Population Research , 28(2-3): 103-107   

Bell, M. [forthcoming]: Australia: Internal migration, in Ness (Ed) The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Wiley (submitted)
 
Bell, M., Charles-Edwards, E., Wilson, T. and Cooper, J. [forthcoming]: Australia’s Population Future: Probabilistic Forecasts Based on Expert Judgement, Geographical Research, (submitted)
 
Bell, M. and Muhidin, S. [forthcoming]: Comparing Internal Migration between Countries using Courgeau’s K, in John Stillwell and Martin Clarke (Eds) Population Dynamics and Projection Methods: Papers in Honour of Philip Rees, Springer: (accepted July 2010)

Bell, M. and Brown, D. [forthcoming]: Analysing Interregional Population Flows, In Stimson, R.J. (ed) Handbook in Spatially Integrated Social Science Research Methods, Edward Elgar (accepted May 2010)
 
Bell, M., Charles-Edwards, E., Wilson, T. and Cooper, J. [2010] Demographic futures for South East Queensland, Australian Planner, 47(3): 118-25
 
Bell, M. & Muhidin, S. [2009]: Cross-National Comparisons of Internal Migration, Human Development Research Paper 2009/30, United Nations, New York
 
Brown D, Taylor J and Bell M (2008): The demography of desert Australia, The Rangeland Journal, 30, pp29-43
 
Charles-Edwards E, Bell M and Brown D (2008): Where people move and when: temporary population mobility in Australia, People and Place, 16(1): 21-30
 
Wilson T and Bell M (2007): Probabilistic regional population forecasts: the example of Queensland, Australia, Geographical Analysis, 39(1): 1-25
 
Hansen J and Bell M (2007): Harvest Trails in Australia: Patterns of Seasonal Migration in the Fruit and Vegetable Industry, Journal of Rural Studies, 23(1): 101-117
 
Bell M and Rees P (2006): Comparing migration in Britain and Australia: harmonisation through use of age-time plans, Environment and Planning A, 38 (50) 959-988
 
Larson A, Bell M and Young A (2004): Clarifying the relationship between health and residential mobility, Social Science and medicine, 59(10): 1149-1160
 
Wilson T & Bell M, (2004): Comparative empirical evaluations of internal migration models in sub-national population projections, Journal of Population Research, 21 (2), 127-160
 
Taylor J and Bell M (2004): Introduction: new world demography, pp 1-10 in Taylor J and Bell M (eds) Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America, Routledge, London
 
Bell M, Blake M, Boyle P, Duke-Williams O, Rees P, Stillwell J and Hugo G (2002): Cross-national comparison of internal migration: issues and measures, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 165(3): 435-464
 
Bell M (2002): Comparing population mobility in Australia and New Zealand, Joint Special Issues of the Journal of Population Research and New Zealand Population Review, 169-193
 
Bell M (2001): Understanding circulation in Australia, Journal of Population Research, 18(1), pp 19-39
 
Newbold, K B and Bell M (2001) Return and onwards migration in Canada and Australia: evidence from fixed interval data, International Migration Review, 35(4), pp 1157-1184
 
Bell M and Ward G J (2000): Comparing permanent migration with temporary mobility, Tourism Geographies, 2(1), pp 97-107
 
Blake M, Bell M and Rees P (2000): Creating a temporally consistent spatial framework for the analysis of interregional migration in Australia, International Journal of Population Geography, 6, pp 155-74
 
Rees P, Bell M, Duke-Williams O and Blake M (2000): Problems and solutions in the measurement of migration intensities: Australia and Britain compared, Population Studies, 54(2), pp 207-222
 
Bell M, Dean C and Blake M (2000): A model for forecasting the location of fringe urbanisation with GIS and 3D visualisation, Computers,

Funded Projects

  • Cross national comparisons of internal Migration, United Nations Development Program, 2008-2009 ($25,000)
  • Collaborative research initiatives in the fields of demography and population research, Queensland Treasury, Bell, M., 2006-2011, ($500,000).
  • Patterns of population mobility and internal migration in Australia. ARC Learned Academics Special Projects, Bell, M., and ten others, 2005-2009, ($100,000).
  • ARC Research Network in spatially integrated social science. ARC Network, Stimson, R., Bell, M. and 21 others, 2005 – 2009, ($1,500,000).
  • An integrated large scale urban model and spatial decision support system simulating growth and evaluating sustainability outcomes for Southeast Queensland. ARC Linkage, Bell, M., Mangan, J., Burrage, K., Wilson, T., Murray, A., Skinner, A., Crossman, P., Barker, R., Stimson, R. and Taylor, A., 2004 – 2007, ($590,000).
  • Understanding the structure of internal migration in Australia. ARC Discovery, Bell, M. and Wilson, T., 2004 – 2006, ($253,000).
  • Scoping demographic research in the Australian desert and tropical savannas. Desert Knowledge CRC, Taylor, J., Bell, M., Hall, G., Hunter, B. and Brown, D., 2004 - 2005, ($265,068).
  • Australian Social Science data archive facility enhancement and network development. ARC Life Leo560677, Bell, M. and 15 others, 2005, ($471,000).

Research Staff and Students

Research staff:

Principal supervision of PhD candidates

  • Aude Bernard
  • Angelique Parr
  • Francisco Rowe Gonzalez

Teaching Responsibilities

Contributes to:
  • GEOG1000 – Human Settlements
  • GEOS1100 – Environment and Society
  • GEOG2001 – Human Spatial Behaviour
  • GEOG2205 – Global Population Issues
  • GEOG3205 – Applied Demography

 

 

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