Ben Hennig is Professor of Geography at the University of Iceland, an honorary research associate at the University of Oxford and also the founder of Worldmapper.
Ben sat down with John to talk about his career to date, his work at the University of Iceland, the origins of the Worldmapper project, Trump tweets and much more.
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Links from the pod
Ben's website
Views of the World (blog)
Worldmapper Project
GeoVis Lab Iceland (research group)
Re-Enlightening Views of the World (4-minute ‘lightning talk’ about Ben's work)
Selected readings mentioned in the podcast
Overview of Ben's main academic publications on GoogleScholar
Sheffield – A Tale of Two Cities (by the Sheffield Sasi Research Group)
COVID-19’s Spread Across the World (access by request)
In Focus: How Joe Biden Won the White House (access by request)
In Focus: Trump Tweets: Power and the Global Politics of Social Media (access by request)
In Focus: Nationality, Citizenship and Refugees: A Global Perspective (access by request)
Spatial and temporal inequalities in mortality in the USA, 1968–2016 (open access)
Monitoring fish spawning sites in freshwater ecosystems using low-cost UAV data: A case study of salmonids in lakes in Iceland (pre-print, open access)
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