BACKGROUND | RESEARCH | COURSES | RESOURCES 

Dr Jason A. Gilliland

 GRADUATE STUDENT Opportunities!

Funded opportunities are available for prospective MA/MSc and PhD students interested in working on research topics related to Urban and/or Health Geography.  Please contact Dr. Gilliland for more information (jgillila @ uwo.ca)

Research Interests

   •  Urban Form and Design  •  Urban Health

   •  Children's Environments  •  Housing

   •  GIS and Urban Analysis  •  Historical GIS (H-GIS)

   •  Geography of Gambling  •  Urban History

   •  Food Geography  •  Childhood Obesity

   •  Mobility and Aging

 Selected Publications                

*graduate student                               

*Sadler, R., Gilliland, J, Arku, G. (2013 forthcoming). Retail-Led Regeneration as Economic Development: The Influence of New Food Retail Sources on the Price and Availability of Nutritious Food. Journal of Urban Affairs.

*Healy, M., Gilliland, J. 2012. Quantifying the Magnitude of Environmental Exposure Misclassification When Using Imprecise Address Proxies in Public Health Research. Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology. 3(1): 55-67.

He, M., *Tucker, P., Gilliland, J., Irwin, J., *Larsen, K., Hess, P. 2012. The influence of local food environments on adolescents’ food. purchasing behaviors. Int J of Environmental and Public Health Research. 9: 1458-1471.

He, M., *Tucker, P, Gilliland, J., Irwin, J., *Larsen, K, Hess, P. 2012. Obesogenic Neighborhoods: The Impact of Neighborhood Restaurants and Convenience Stores on Adolescents' Food Consumption Behaviors. Public Health Nutrition.

Stewart, Tanya Charyk; Polgar, Denise; Gilliland, Jason; Tanner, David A.; Girotti, Murray J.; Parry, Neil; Fraser, Douglas D. 2011. Shaken Baby Syndrome and a Triple-Dose Strategy for Its Prevention. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care. 71(6):1801-1807.

*Sadler, R., GILLILAND, J., Arku, G. 2011. An application of the edge effect in measuring accessibility to multiple food retailer types in Southwestern Ontario. International Journal of Health Geographics.

GILLILAND, J., Olson, S., Gauvreau, D. 2011. Did segregation increase as the city expanded? Montreal 1881-1901. Social Science History. 35(4): 465-503.

*Novak, M., GILLILAND, J. 2011. Form, function and fluidity of the central retail district in London, Canada: 1880-1930. Social Science History. 35(4): 543:570.

Dunae, P.A., Lutz, J.S., *Lafreniere, D.J., and GILLILAND, J.A. 2011. Making the Inscrutable, Scrutable: Race and Space in Victoria’s Chinatown, 1891.  B.C. Studies. 169: 51-80.

Arku, G, *Kemp, J., GILLILAND, J. 2011. An analysis of public debates over urban growth patterns in the City of London, Ontario. Local Environment.

*Larsen, K, Gilliland, J., Hess, P. 2011. Route based analysis to capture the environmental influences on a child's mode of travel between home and school. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

GILLILAND, J. 2010. The Built Environment and Obesity: Trimming Waistlines through Neighbourhood Design. In Bunting, Filion & Walker (eds). Canadian Cities in Transition (4^th Edition), 391-410, Oxford University Press.

*Forward, K., *Chan, M, Charyk-Stewart, T., GILLILAND, J., Campbell, C., and D.D. Fraser. 2010. Injury Analyses in Rural Children: Comparison of Old-Order Anabaptists and Non-Anabaptists. Journal of Trauma 69: 1294-1299.

*Hayek, M., Arku, G., and J. Gilliland. 2010. Assessing London Ontario’s Brownfield Redevelopment Effort to Promote Urban Intensification. Local Environment

*Hayek, M., *Novak, M., Arku, G. and J. GILLILAND. 2010. Mapping Industrial Legacies: Building a Spatially-Referenced Comprehensive Brownfield Database in GIS. Planning Practice & Research.

*Tanner, D., Kloseck, M., Crilly, R., Chesworth, B. and J. GILLILAND. 2010. Hip fracture types in men and women change differently with age. BMC Geriatrics 10:12.

GILLILAND, J., and S. Olson. 2010. Residential segregation in the industrializing city: a closer look. Urban Geography. 31(1): 29-58.

*Novak, M and J. GILLILAND. 2009 ‘Buried beneath the waves’: using GIS to examine the social and physical impacts of a historical flood. Digital Studies.

*Loebach, J. and J. GILLILAND. 2010. Learning with Child Guides: Exploring the Use of Child Led Tours to Uncover Children's Perceptions and use of Neighbourhood Environments. Children, Youth & Environments.

*Larsen, K., and J. GILLILAND. 2009. A farmers' market in a food desert: Evaluating the impacts on the price and availability of healthy food. Health & Place.

*Brandon, CA, *Gill, DP, Speechley, M, GILLILAND, J, Jones, GR. 2009. Physical Activity Levels of Older Community-Dwelling Adults are Influenced by Summer Weather Variables. Applied Physiology, Nutrition & Metabolism.

*Larsen, K., GILLILAND, J. Hess, P., *Tucker, P, Irwin, J, He, M. 2009. Identifying influences of physical environments and socio-demographic characteristics on a child's mode of travel to and from school. American Journal of Public Health.

*Larsen, K., and J. GILLILAND. 2008. Mapping the evolution of 'food deserts' in a Canadian city: Supermarket accessibility in London, Ontario, 1961-2005. International Journal of Health Geographics

*Tucker, P., Irwin, J., GILLILAND, J., *Larsen, K., He, M., Hess, P. (2008) Environmental influences on physical activity levels in youth. Health & Place

*Tucker, P., Irwin, J.D., GILLILAND, J., He, M. 2008. Adolescents’ Perspective of Home, School and Neighborhood Environmental Influences on Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviors. Children, Youth and Environments, 18(2), 12-35.

*Tucker, P., GILLILAND, J. 2007. The Effect of Season and Weather on Physical Activity: A Systematic Review. Public Health 121(12): 909-922. *contact me for reprint*

*Tucker, P., GILLILAND, J., Irwin, J. 2007. Splashpads, swings, and shade: parents' preferences for neighbourhood parks. Canadian Journal of Public Health  98(3): 198-202.

GILLILAND, J., *Holmes, M., *Tucker, P., Irwin, J. 2006. Environmental equity is child’s play: Mapping public provision of recreation opportunities in urban neighbourhoods. Vulnerable Children & Youth Studies 1(3): 256-268.

*Wilson, D., GILLILAND, J., Ross, N., Derevensky, J., Gupta, R. 2006. Video lottery terminal access and gambling among high school students in Montréal. Canadian Journal of Public Health 97(3): 202-206.

GILLILAND, J. and P. Gauthier. 2006. The study of urban form in Canada. Urban Morphology, 10(1): 51-66.

Gauthier, P. and J. GILLILAND. 2006. Mapping urban morphology: a classification scheme for interpreting contributions to the study of urban form. Urban Morphology, 10(1): 41-50.

GILLILAND, J. and M. Novak*. 2006. On positioning the past with the present: the use of fire insurance plans and GIS for urban environmental history. Environmental History, 11 (1): 136-139.

GILLILAND, J. and Ross, N. 2005. Opportunities for video lottery terminal gambling in Montréal: An environmental analysis. Canadian Journal of Public Health 96(1): 55-59.

GILLILAND, J. 2004. Muddy shore to modern port: the redimensioning of Montreal's

waterfront time-space. Canadian Geographer 48(4): 448-472.

GILLILAND, J. 2003. It's about time: exploring the fourth dimension in the morphology of urban disasters. Urban Morphology, 7(2): 110-112.

GILLILAND, J. 2003. Putting gambling in its place: a geographical study of VLT

accessibility and play by Montreal youth. Youth Gambling International, 3(3): 1-2.

GILLILAND, J. and Olson, S. 2003. Montréal, l’avenir du passé. GÉOinfo (January-February): 5-7.

GILLILAND, J. 2002. The creative destruction of Montreal: street widenings and urban (re)development in the nineteenth century. Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine, 31(1): 37-51.

GILLILAND, J. 2002. Society and space in the industrial city. Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine, 31(1): 3-4.

GILLILAND, J. 2002. Redimensioning Montreal: Circulation and Urban Form, 1846-1918. PhD Dissertation, Dept of Geography, McGill University, 277 pages.

GILLILAND, J. 2000. Visions and revisions of house and home: a half-century of change in Montreal's ‘Cité-jardin.’ In H. Nicol and G. Halseth (eds), (Re)Development at the Urban Edges. Waterloo: University of Waterloo, Dept of Geography Publication Series, pp.139-74.

GILLILAND, J. 2000. Urban morphology in the ‘Steel City’. Urban Morphology, 4(2): 102-3.

GILLILAND, J. 1999. Redimensioning the urban vascular system: street widening operations in Montreal, 1850-1918. In G. Corona and G. L. Maffei (eds), Transformations of Urban Form: From Interpretations to Methodologies in Practice. Firenze: Alinea Editrice.

GILLILAND, J. and Olson, S. 1998. Claims on housing space in nineteenth-century Montreal. Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine, 26(2): 3-16.

Sendbuehler, M. and GILLILAND, J. 1998. “...to produce the highest type of manhood and womanhood”: The Ontario Housing Act, 1919, and a new suburban ideal. Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine, 26(2): 42-55.

GILLILAND, J. 1998. Modeling residential mobility in Montreal, 1860-1900. Historical Methods, 31(1): 27-42.

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