John Östh

 

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Stat och regioner driver avfolkning och överhettning

Position

Member of faculty, senior lecturer in Geography with GIS [Docent och lektor i Geografi med GIS] @ the department of Human Geography, Uppsala University.

Research profile

My primary research interest is oriented towards Spatial Analysis and GIS, software development and quantitative analysis in population and economic geography with special focus on demography and migration, school choice and labour market opportunities, and more recently also the geography of human interaction on the Internet and through mobile phone usage.

   My software project EquiPop has now (summer 2015) got users in 22 countries (EquiPop is a software-program developed for the calculation of k-nearest neighbourhoods/contexts. The software is specifically designed to work with datasets that contain thousands or millions of observations and offers viable solutions to Knn questions also where large areas and complex geographies are involved.) EquiPop can be downloaded from this webpage.

   International academic engagements and activities include membership in the newly formed Regional Science Academy and frequent participation in activities arranged by NECTAR and RSAI/ERSA/NARSC.

Teaching and supervision

Being employed as a senior lecturer in Geography and GIS means that much of my teaching is oriented towards methods and theories in GIS. Teaching usually consists of classes in GIS level 1 (15 credits, part of planning program) during autumns and GIS level 2 (15 credits, open to students with GIS level 1 experience - or similar) during spring. The GIS and spatial analsysis web-site can be found here.

   I supervise student essays on Swedish level C and master’s level – usually in GIS, spatial analysis and population geography. I currently supervise four PhD-students (see below).

Recent and current national and international PhD-courses that I teach include:

• SGO9010 - Quantitative Methods and Spatial Analysis for Geographers (Norway)
• Eleventh Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory (IT11) (Italy)
• Introduction to spatial methods (Swedish INterdisciplinary Graduate School in register-based research - SINGS

Presentations

Recent (2015) and planned (2016) research presentations include

• RGS 2015, Exeter, Studying patterns of socio-economic segregation using diurnal mobility of mobile-phone users in Sweden (Mohall, Östh, Niedomysl and Shuttleworth)
• AAG 2015, session organizer for New Methods for Measuring Segregation 1 & 2 (Sponsored by Population Specialty Group) with presentations:

  • A neighbourhood’s neighbours matter’: spill-over neighbourhood effects using individualised, scalable neighbourhood in Stockholm, Sweden (EQUIPOP) (Emily Miltenburg, Sako Musterd, Kati Kadarik, John Östh)

  • Spatial Integration in Sweden - a longitudinal study of variation in integration among immigrants to Sweden. (Kati kadarik, John Östh)

  • Relevant spatial scales for ethnic integration, the case of Sweden. (Kati kadarik, John Östh)

• XIII NECTAR International Conference 2015 (Ann Arbor), RESILIENCE AND ACCESSIBILITY:
  A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE NETHERLANDS AND SWEDEN, (John Östh, Aura Reggiani, Peter Nijkamp)

• Eleventh Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory (IT11) Geography and Inequality

• Regional Science Academy meeting KTH, (Jan 2016), ‘It’s a Small World’ Big Data and Beyond, with presentation: Is big beautiful?

• NECTAR cluster 8 and Mobile Tartu 2016 meeting in Estonia (June 2016)

  • John Östh, Aura Reggiani, Laurie Schintler, Can the mobility of phones be used to depict the spatial organization of regions?

  • Mohall, Östh, Niedomysl and Shuttleworth, Segregation and mobility: exploring economic segregation in Sweden's metropolitan areas using mobile phone data

• NECTAR cluster 6, Regional Science Academy meeting Paris, (June 2016), Martina Dolciotti, John Östh, Aura reggiani, peter Nijkamp, (social capital and accessibility - titel yet to be determined)

• ERSA Vienna (23-26 August), RESILIENCE, RURAL AREAS AND ACCESSIBILITY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE NETHERLANDS AND SWEDEN, John Östh, Aura Reggiani, Peter Nijkamp

Publications

Peer review papers

• Niedomysl, T., Källström, J., Koster, S. & Östh, J. (2018) Inter-regional migration of business owners: who moves and how does moving affect firm performance? Forthcoming in Regional Studies.
   
• Blind, I., Dahlberg, M., Engström, G. & Östh, J. (forthcoming), Construction of Register-Based Commuting Measures, CESifo Economic Studies
   
• Östh, J., Shuttleworth, I., & Niedomysl, T., (2018),Spatial and temporal patterns of economic segregation in Sweden’s metropolitan areas: a mobility approach, E&PA: Economy and Space, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X18763167

• Östh, J., Reggiani, A., & Nijkamp P., (2018), RESILIENCE AND ACCESSIBILITY OF SWEDISH AND DUTCH MUNICIPALITIES, Transportation, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-017-9854-3
   
• Clark A. V. William and Östh John (2018), MEASURING ISOLATION ACROSS SPACE AND OVER TIME WITH NEW TOOLS: EVIDENCE FROM CALIFORNIA METROPOLITAN REGIONS, Environment and Planning B, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808318756642

• Östh, J., Dolciotti, M.,Reggiani, A., &  Nijkamp P (2018), Social Capital, Resilience and Accessibility in Urban Systems: A Study on Sweden, Networks and Spatial Economics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11067-017-9375-9
   
• Östh, J. (2017), Variation in mortality among migrants from Islamic countries: Do religious holidays and socio-economic situation affect mortality rates?. Population Space and Place., https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2092
   
• Blicharska, M., Andersson, J., Bergsten, J., Bjelke, U., Hilding-Rydevik, T., Thomsson, M., Östh, J. & Johansson, F. (2017), Is there a relationship between socio-economic factors and biodiversity in urban ponds? A study in the city of Stockholm, Urban Ecosyst, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-017-0673-2

• Östh John, Johan Lyhagen & Aura reggiani (2016), A new way of determining distance decay parameters in spatial interaction models with application to job accessibility analysis in Sweden, European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, Vo 16, Issue 2

• Hélio Manhica, John Östh & Mikael Rostila (2015) DYNAMICS OF UNEMPLOYMENT DURATION AMONG AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN SWEDEN, The contribution of specific country of birth and gender on employment success, Nordic Journal of Migration Research Vol. 5, Issue 4, DOI: 10.1515/njmr-2015-0024

• William A. V. Clark, Eva Anderson, John Östh & Bo Malmberg (2015), A Multiscalar Analysis of Neighborhood Composition in Los Angeles, 2000–2010: A Location-Based Approach to Segregation and Diversity, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, DOI:10.1080/00045608.2015.1072790

• Östh, John, Reggiani, Aura & Galiazzo Giacomo (2015), Spatial Economic Resilience and Accessibility: A Joint Perspective, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2014.07.007
   
• Östh John, Clark A. W. & Malmberg Bo, (2015), Measuring the scale of segregation using k-nearest neighbor aggregates, Geographical Analysis, DOI: 10.1111/gean.12053
   
• Östh John, (2015) Super-local spatial variations in fertility, Environment and Planning A, graphics, doi:10.1177/0308518X15592299
   
• Lina Hedman, David Manley, Maarten van Ham & John Östh (2013) Cumulative exposure to disadvantage and the intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood effects, Journal of Economic Geography, doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbt042
   
• Wimark, T. and Östh, J. (2013), The City as a Single Gay Male Magnet? Gay and Lesbian Geographical Concentration in Sweden. Population Space and Place. doi: 10.1002/psp.1825
   
• Maarten van Ham, Lina Hedman, David Manley, Rory Coulter and John Östh (2013), Intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood poverty. An analysis of neighbourhood histories of individuals, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, DOI: 10.1111/tran.12040
   

• Malmberg, Bo, Andersson, Eva & Östh, John (2013) SEGREGATION AND URBAN UNREST IN SWEDEN, Urban Geography (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02723638.2013.799370)

• Östh, John, Andersson, Eva & Malmberg, Bo (2013) School Choice and Increasing Performance Difference: A Counterfactual Approach. Urban Studies, Volume 50 Issue 2 February 2013 pp. 406 - 424. Doi: 10.1177/ 0042098012452322

• Andersson, Eva, Malmberg, Bo. & Östh, John (2012) Travel-to-School Distances in Sweden 2000-2006 - Changing School Geography with Equality Implications. Journal of Transport Geography Volume 23,

• Östh, John och Lindgren, Urban (2012) Do changes in gdp influence commuting distances? a study of swedish commuting patterns between 1990 and 2006. Volume 103, Issue 4, pages 443–456, September 2012, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

• Östh John, (2011), Introducing a method for the computation of doubly constrained accessibility models in larger datasets, Networks and Spatial Economics, 11:581-620, DOI 10.1007/s11067-010-9129-4

• Andersson, Eva, Östh, John & Malmberg, Bo. (2010) Ethnic segregation and performance inequality in the Swedish school system: A regional perspective. Environment and Planning A, Vol 42, no. 11, 2674-2686. doi: 10.1068/a43120

• Niedomysl Thomas, Östh John and van Ham Maarten, (2010), The Globalisation of Marriage Fields: the Swedish Case, Journal of ethnic and migration studies, vol. 36:7, p 1119-1138

• Åslund Olof, Östh John and Zenou Yves, (2010), How important is access to jobs? Old question improved answer, Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 10.3, p 389-422

Peer Review papers in National Journals

•  Olofsson Jonas & John Östh (2005), Yrkesutbildning och socialpolitik, Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift

Editorial material

• Guers K. T. & Östh J (2016), Special Issue: Advances in the Measurement of Transport Impedance in Accessibility Modelling, EJTIR, Volume 16, Issue 2

Book chapters, reports etc (selection)

• Shuttleworth, I., Östh, J. & Niedomysl, T. (2017), Trends in Swedish internal migration from 1991: Evidence from public registers, in ED. Tony Champion, Thomas Cooke, and Ian Shuttleworth, Are We Becoming Less Mobile? Transnational Perspectives through Time on Internal Migration in Advanced Countries, Ashgate International Population Series
   

• Amcoff, J., Mohall, M., Waxell, A., Östh, J.(2015). Detaljhandelns förändrade geografi.Rapport (Working Papers in Geography, 1)

• Niedomysl Thomas, Östh John & Jan Amcoff (2015), Boendesegregationen i Skåne, Region Skåne,

• John Östh, Jan Amcoff & Thomas Niedomysl, (2014), Segregation i Stockholmsregionen: Kartläggning med EquiPop, Befolkningsprognos: 2014:9, SLL, http://www.tmr.sll.se/Statistik/Demografi-och-prognoser/Befolkningsprognoser/

• Jan Amcoff, Thomas Niedomysl & John Östh, (2014), In- och utflyttningsfält i Stockholmsregionen: Kartläggning med EquiPop, Befolkningsprognos: 2014:8, SLL, http://www.tmr.sll.se/Statistik/Demografi-och-prognoser/Befolkningsprogn...

• Östh, John., Reggiani, Aura. & Galiazzo, Giacomo (2014) Conventional and New Approaches for the Estimation of Distance Decay in Potential Accessibility Models: Comparative analyses, in Condeço Ana, Reggiani Aura & Gutiérrez Javier(Ed.) Accessibility and spatial interaction, Edward Elgar (EE).

• Olofsson, J., Lundahl, L., Lexelius, A., Rolfsman, E. & Östh, J. (2012) Ungas övergångar mellan skola och arbete - förutsättningar, lokala strategier och åtgärder, Umeå Universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap, ISBN: 978-91-7459-538-3

• Östh, John, Malmberg, Bo and Andersson, Eva, (2014) Analysing segregation with individualized neighbourhoods defined by population size, in C. D. LLOYD, I. SHUTTLEWOTH and D. WONG (Ed.) Social-Spatial Segregation: Concepts, Processes and Outcomes, Policy Press.

• Olofsson, Jonas och Östh, John (2011) Förtidspensionering av unga. En fråga om utsortering efter utbildningsnivå och socioekonomisk bakgrund? Underlagsrapport nr 5 till den parlamentariska socialförsäkringsutredningen SOU (S 2010:04)

• Östh, John, Niedomysl, Thomas, Amcoff, Jan, Ander Love och Hedberg Sebastian (2011) Arbetsmarknad i förändring - en analys av regionala branschförändringar över tid och dess betydelse för framtida arbetsmiljöarbete, Rapport 2011:12, Arbetsmiljöverket, Stockholm

• Östh John, Niedomysl Thomas and van Ham Maarten, (2010), “The geographies of recruiting a partner from abroad: an exploration of Swedish data” in “International Marriages in the Time of Globalization” (Ed. Elli K. Heikkilä, Brenda S. A. Yeoh), ISBN 978-1-61761-065-3, Nova Science Publishers

• Olofsson Jonas och Östh John, (2007), Yrkesutbildning –ett effektivt socialpolitiskt instrument: Om ungdomar, yrkesutbildning och försörjning, i Utbildningsvägen - vart leder den?: Om ungdomar, yrkesutbildning och försörjning (red. Olofsson Jonas), SNS-förlag, Stockholm, 978-91-85355-88-4

• Olofsson Jonas och Östh John, (2007), Yrkesutbildningens sociala betydelse –en deskriptiv analys. Bilaga 4 till SOU 2008:27 Framtidsvägen –en reformerad gymnasieskola.

• Östh John, (2007), Home, Job and Space: Mapping and Modeling the Labor Market, Geografiska regionstudier, Uppsala, ISSN 0431-2023; 72

In media (selection of appearances)

on job migration:

• on job migration:

  • Tusentals statliga jobb i norr har försvunnit (2016)

  • "Direkt okunskap bakom jobbflytten” (2015)

  • Statliga jobb flyttar från landsbygden i allt högre takt (2015)

• on segregation:

  • Segregationen ökar i Stockholm

  • Färre okvalificerade arbeten bakom den ökade segregationen

  • Rika områden blir rikare – invandrartäta får fler invandrare

• On schools, education and labour market

  • DN Debatt. ”Skolvalet används för att undvika underprivilegierade"

  • DN Debatt. "Vinklat om gymnasierna"

  • DN Debatt. "Praktisk utbildning minskar fattigdom" Fler unga med teoretisk gymnasieutbildning slås ut, visar ny forskarrapport.

  • Unga pensioneras bort från jobben

  • Arbetslöshet och förtidspension går hand i hand

Software development projects

• EquiPop

Current PhD-students:

• Johanna Jokinen (UU)
   
• Kati Kadarik (UU-IBF)
   
• Michael Thelin (UU)
   
• Karin Winter (KTH)
   
• Marcus Mohall (UU)

Former Licentiat-students:

• Mikael Wingård (UU)
   
• Karin Nibon (UU)
   
• Bert Eriksson (UU)
   
• Per Kristmansson (UU, later UMU)
   

Contact

Work phone: +46 18 471 73 88

Mobile: +46 701 67 91 05

Skype: john.osth

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4536-9229

Email: john.osth @ kultgeog.uu.se (avoid blank spaces when mailing)