Dr Bethan Thomas

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	Telephone (UK):	0114 222 7962
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	Email:	B.S.Thomas@Sheffield.ac.uk

Bethan Thomas has a BA in Contemporary East European Studies from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London (1995) and an MSc in Geographic and Geodetic Information Systems from UCL (1997). She completed her PhD in Geography (The Visualisation of Flow Data: from UK Telephone Calls to a General Method) at the University of Leeds in 2004.

From 2002-2003 Bethan was a research officer at the University of Leeds working on a project (sponsored by the Welsh Assembly) with colleagues on the microsimulation of the population of Wales.

Since 2003 Bethan has been a researcher at the University of Sheffield.

Research interests

Bethan's research interests include the social geography of Great Britain, social and health inequalities and visualisation methods. She is a member of the SASI research centre within the department and part of her job includes managing its extensive data collection.

Current research

Bethan is currently working on a project funded by Crisis on Homeless Mortality in Early 21st Century England & Wales.

Recent publications

Books

Dorling, D. and Thomas, B. (2011). Bankrupt Britain: An atlas of social change, Policy Press, Bristol
Thomas, B., Pritchard, J., Ballas, D., Vickers, D. and Dorling, D. (2009). A Tale of Two Cities: The Sheffield Project, report commissioned by David Blunkett MP
Shaw, M., Thomas, B. , Davey Smith, G., and Dorling, D., (October 2008), The Grim Reaper's road map: An atlas of mortality in Britain , Bristol : Policy Press
Thomas, B. and Dorling D., (2007) Identity in Britain : A cradle-to-grave atlas , Bristol : Policy Press
Dorling, D., Rigby, J., Wheeler, B., Ballas, D., Thomas, B ., Fahmy, E., Gordon, D., and Lupton, R., (2007) Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968 to 2005 , Bristol: Policy Press

Beyond black and white: mapping new immigrant communities

The BBC has a companion web site

Geography matters: Simulating the local impacts of national social policies .
Published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in early 2005, written by Dimitris Ballas, Dave Rossiter, Bethan Thomas , Graham Clarke and Danny Dorling.
Know your place: housing wealth and inequality in Great Britain 1980-2003 and beyond.
This report, commissioned, was published in November 2004. It was jointly authored with Danny Dorling, and is included in the Shelter book The Great Divide: an analysis of housing inequality (June 2005).
People and places: a 2001 census atlas .
Written with Danny Dorling and published in June 2004 by the Policy Press.

Journal articles

Thomas, B. , (forthcoming 2008). Identity in Britain : investigating the social geology. Geography.
Metcalfe, C., Patel, B., Evans, S., Ibrahim, F., Anson, K., Chinegwundoh, F., Corbishley, C., Dorling, D., Thomas, B ., Gillatt, D., Kirby, R., Muir, G., Nargund, V., Popert, R., Persad, R. and Ben-Shlomo, Y., (forthcoming 2008). The risk of prostate cancer amongst South Asian men in southern England: the PROCESS cohort study. BJU International.
Ben-Shlomo, Y., Evans, S., Ibrahim, F., Patel, B., Anson, K., Chinegwundoh, F., Corbishley, C., Dorling, D., Thomas, B. , Gillatt, D., Kirby, R., Muir, G., Nargand, V., Popert, R., Metcalfe, C. and Persad, R., (2008). The risk of prostate cancer amongst Black men in the United Kingdom: The PROCESS retrospective cohort study. European Urology, 53 :1.
Thomas, B and Dorling, D (2007). Human mosaic: maps of honeycombed British Society. Significance, 4 :4.
Ballas D, Clarke G, Dorling D, Eyre H, Thomas B , Rossiter D (2005). SimBritain: a spatial microsimulation approach to population dynamics. Population, Space and Place, 11 :1.
Thomas, B. & Dorling, D., (2004). Mapping changes and the 2001 census for the UK. Area, 26 :2.
Thomas, B. & Dorling, D., (2004). Advances in the Human cartography of the UK. The Cartographic Journal, 41 :2.