Francisco Rowe is the lead of the Geographic Data Science Lab and a Senior Lecturer in Human Quantitative Geography at the Department of Geography and Planning within the University of Liverpool. He is also a Project Associate of the international project IMAGE: Comparing Internal Migration Around the Globe. His areas of expertise are: internal & international migration; human mobility; and computational social science. He has been invited to present his research at the United Nations Population & Development Division in New York and works closely with the International Organization for Migration, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, UK’s government organisations, including the Ordnance Survey and the ONS Data Campus, and commercial companies, Geolytix. His work contributed to the United Nations Expert group meeting on `sustainable cities, human mobility and international migration’, and the ONS Government Statistical Service Advisory Committee. Francisco is editor of REGION, the journal of the European Regional Science Association (2018-present). The international reach of his research has been recognised by an award for the best paper published in Spatial Economic Analysis in 2018 and having top articles in the top 10 most read articles in Transport Research Part C (2018), Spatial Economic Analysis (2019) & Population Studies (2019).
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1628 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4137-0246 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/francisco-rowe-69207a36/ | |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@fcorowe |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francisco-Rowe |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Other
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Quantitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
Roles
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University of Liverpool
University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Professor of Population Data Science -
University of Liverpool
University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Personal Chair -
University of Liverpool
University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography
Research
Identifying the spatial patterns of population displacement during wildfires in Valparaíso, Chile
| Authors | Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Regional Studies, Regional Science | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Increasing diversity, precarity and prolonged periods of education in the transition from school to work in Britain
| Authors | Alina Pelikh, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
Geographies of discontent: measuring and understanding the feeling of abandonment in the Chilean region of Valparaiso (2019–2021)
| Authors | Pedro Fierro, Ignacio Aravena-Gonzalez, Patricio Aroca, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A Bayesian approach to estimate annual bilateral migration flows for South America using census data
| Authors | Andrea Aparicio Castro, Andrea Aparicio Castro, Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, ... |
| Year | 2024 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
An Elon Musk generalist or a specialist? The impacts of interdisciplinary learning on post-graduation outcomes
| Authors | Ya-Wen Tseng, Francisco Rowe, Eric S. Lin |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Studies in Higher Education | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Digital Data and Population Studies
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Miguel González-Leonardo |
| Year | 2024 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A ‘donut effect’? Assessing housing transactions during COVID-19 across the Spanish rural–urban hierarchy
| Authors | Miguel González-Leonardo, Francisco Rowe, Arturo Vegas-Sánchez |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Regional Studies, Regional Science | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Virtual special issue: Internal migration in times of COVID‐19
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Miguel González‐Leonardo, Tony Champion |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
Understanding Population Decline Trajectories in Spain using Sequence Analysis
| Authors | Miguel González‐Leonardo, Niall Newsham, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Geographical Analysis | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Declining fertility in Taiwan: the deterring impact of housework imbalance
| Authors | Jac Thomas, Francisco Rowe, Eric S. Lin |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Asian Population Studies |
Urban exodus? Understanding human mobility in Britain during the COVID‐19 pandemic using Meta‐Facebook data
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Alessia Calafiore, Daniel Arribas‐Bel, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
Understanding trajectories of population decline across rural and urban Europe: A sequence analysis
| Authors | Niall Newsham, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
Using digital footprint data to monitor human mobility and support rapid humanitarian responses
| Authors | Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Regional Studies, Regional Science |
Visualizing internal and international migration in the Spanish provinces during the COVID-19 pandemic
| Authors | Miguel González-Leonardo, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Regional Studies, Regional Science | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
From bad to worse: examining the deteriorating labour market outcomes of international graduates in Australia
| Authors | Angelina Tang, Francisco Perales, Francisco Rowe, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Population Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Understanding patterns of internal migration during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Spain
| Authors | Miguel González‐Leonardo, Antonio López‐Gay, Niall Newsham, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
Trajectories of neighbourhood inequality in Britain: Unpacking inter‐regional socioeconomic imbalances, 1971−2011
| Authors | Nikos Patias, Francisco Rowe, Dani Arribas‐Bel |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | The Geographical Journal | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Functional signatures in Great Britain: A dataset
| Authors | Krasen Samardzhiev, Martin Fleischmann, Daniel Arribas-Bel, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Data in Brief | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Using Twitter to track immigration sentiment during early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Michael Mahony, Eduardo Graells-Garrido, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Data & Policy | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Geography of Talent in China During 2000–2015: An Eigenvector Spatial Filtering Negative Binomial Approach
| Authors | Hengyu Gu, Francisco Rowe, Ye Liu, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Chinese Geographical Science | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Data Resource Profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths
| Authors | Tim Riffe, Enrique Acosta, Enrique José Acosta, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Epidemiology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Identifying how COVID-19-related misinformation reacts to the announcement of the UK national lockdown: An interrupted time-series study
| Authors | Mark Green, Elena Musi, Francisco Rowe, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Big Data & Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The occupational trajectories and outcomes of forced migrants in Sweden. Entrepreneurship, employment or persistent inactivity?
| Authors | Mikaela Backman, Esteban Lopez, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Small Business Economics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Sustainable urban development indicators in Great Britain from 2001 to 2016
| Authors | Nikos Patias, Francisco Rowe, Stefano Cavazzi, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Landscape and Urban Planning | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Going digital? The impact of social media marketing on retail website traffic, orders and sales
| Authors | Les Dolega, Francisco Rowe, Emma Branagan |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Mapping the spatial patterns of internal migration in Europe
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Nikos Patias |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Regional Studies, Regional Science | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Drivers of Long-Distance Commuting in Chile: The Role of the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Martin Bell |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Trends in multimorbidity, complex multimorbidity and multiple functional limitations in the ageing population of England, 2002–2015
| Authors | Leo Singer, Mark Green, Francisco Rowe, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Comorbidity | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
How is internal migration reshaping metropolitan populations in Latin America? A new method and new evidence
| Authors | Jorge Rodríguez-Vignoli, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Population Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 2 |
To travel or not to travel: ‘Weather’ is the question. Modelling the effect of local weather conditions on bus ridership
| Authors | Sui Tao, Jonathan Corcoran, Francisco Rowe, ... |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Comparing internal migration across the countries of Latin America: A multidimensional approach
| Authors | Elin Charles-Edwards, Philipp Ueffing, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | PLOS ONE |
| Citations (WoS) | 6 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
An evolutionary approach to the delimitation of labour market areas: an empirical application for Chile
| Authors | José Manuel Casado-Díaz, Lucas Martínez-Bernabéu, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Spatial Economic Analysis | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The returns to migration and human capital accumulation pathways: non-metropolitan youth in the school-to-work transition
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Jonathan Corcoran, Martin Bell |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | The Annals of Regional Science | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Where are the overseas graduates staying on? Overseas graduate migration and rural attachment in Australia
| Authors | Angelina Zhi Rou Tang, Francisco Rowe, Jonathan Corcoran, ... |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Applied Geography | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Geography and Determinants of Regional Human Capital in Eight Latin American and Caribbean Countries
| Authors | Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2013 |
| Book Title | Regional Problems and Policies in Latin America | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Mobility Patterns of Overseas Human Capital in Australia: the role of a ‘new’ graduate visa scheme and rural development policy
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Jonathan Corcoran, Alessandra Faggian |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Australian Geographer | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Understanding anti-immigration sentiment spreading on Twitter
| Authors | Andrea Nasuto, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | PLOS ONE | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
COVID-19 y movimientos de población entre la jerarquía rural-urbana en México. Un análisis utilizando datos digitales
| Authors | Miguel González-Leonardo, Carmen Cabrera-Arnau, Ruth Neville, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Tracking the Transit Divide: A Multilevel Modelling Approach of Urban Inequalities and Train Ridership Disparities in Chicago
| Authors | Danial Owen, Daniel Arribas-Bel, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Sustainability | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Canvis de residència en temps de COVID-19: una mica d’oxigen per al despoblament rural
| Authors | Miguel Gónzalez Leonardo, Antonio López-Gay, Joaquín Recaño Valverde, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Perspectives Demogràfiques | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Cambios de residencia en tiempos de COVID-19: un poco de oxígeno para el despoblamiento rural
| Authors | Miguel Gónzalez Leonardo, Antonio López-Gay, Joaquín Recaño Valverde, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Perspectives Demogràfiques | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Changes of residence in times of COVID-19: a small respite from rural depopulation
| Authors | Miguel Gónzalez Leonardo, Antonio López-Gay, Joaquín Recaño Valverde, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Perspectives Demogràfiques | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A Framework to Understand Attitudes towards Immigration through Twitter
| Authors | Yerka Freire-Vidal, Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Applied Sciences | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A city of cities: Measuring how 15-minutes urban accessibility shapes human mobility in Barcelona
| Authors | Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Feliu Serra-Burriel, Francisco Rowe, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | PLOS ONE | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Potential of Notebooks for Scientific Publication, Reproducibility and Dissemination
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Gunther Maier, Daniel Arribas-Bel, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | REGION |
A reproducible notebook to acquire, process and analyse satellite imagery
| Authors | Meixu Chen, Dominik Fahrner, Daniel Arribas-Bel, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | REGION | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Impact of Internal Migration on Population Redistribution in Europe: Urbanisation, Counterurbanisation or Spatial Equilibrium?
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Martin Bell, Aude Bernard, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Population Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A Hierarchical Urban Forest Index Using Street-Level Imagery and Deep Learning
| Authors | Philip Stubbings, Joe Peskett, Francisco Rowe, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Remote Sensing | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Projecting the demographic impact of Syrian migration in a rapidly ageing society, Germany
| Authors | Niall Newsham, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Geographical Systems | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The CHilean Internal Migration (CHIM) database: Temporally consistent spatial data for the analysis of human mobility
| Authors | Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | REGION | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Functional Labour Market Areas for Chile
| Authors | Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | REGION | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Functional Labour Market Areas for Chile
| Authors | Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | REGION | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The CHilean Internal Migration (CHIM) database: Temporally consistent spatial data for the analysis of human mobility
| Authors | Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | REGION | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Sensing Global Changes in the Local Patterns of Energy Consumption in Cities During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Caitlin Robinson, Nikos Patias | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Sensing population displacement from Ukraine using Facebook data: Identifying potential settlement areas within host countries
| Authors | Miguel González-Leonardo, Ruth Neville, Sofia Gil-Clavel, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Assessing the differentiated impacts of COVID-19 on the immigration flows to Europe
| Authors | Miguel González-Leonardo, Francisco Rowe, Michaela Potančoková, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
“Urban Exodus” During COVID-19 in Mexico? Using Digital Data to Analyze Medium-Term Pandemic Impacts on Internal Population Movements
| Authors | Miguel González-Leonardo, Carmen Cabrera-Arnau, Ruth Neville, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in persistent changes in the patterns of internal population movements in Latin American countries
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Carmen Cabrera-Arnau, Miguel González-Leonardo, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Datos digitales y estudios de población
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Miguel González-Leonardo | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Big Data and Human Geography
| Authors | Francisco Rowe | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Geographies of Discontent: Measuring and Understanding the Feeling of Abandonment in the Chilean Region of Valparaiso (2019-2021)
| Authors | Pedro Fierro, Ignacio Aravena-González, Patricio Aroca, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Urban Exodus? Understanding Human Mobility in Britain During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Facebook Data
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Alessia Calafiore, Daniel Arribas-Bel, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Demographic Causes of European Sub-National Population Declines
| Authors | Niall Newsham, Francisco Rowe | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Sensing Population Displacement from Ukraine Using Facebook Data: Potential Impacts and Settlement Areas
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Ruth Neville, Miguel González-Leonardo | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Using Digital Trace Data to Monitor Human Mobility and Support Rapid Humanitarian Responses
| Authors | Francisco Rowe | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and where?
| Authors | Miguel González-Leonardo, Francisco Rowe, Alberto Fresolone-Caparrós | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 on immigration in receiving high-income countries
| Authors | Miguel González-Leonardo, Michaela Potančoková, Dilek Yildiz, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Visualizing the impact of COVID-19 on internal and international migration in the Spanish provinces
| Authors | Miguel González-Leonardo, Francisco Rowe | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Understanding Patterns of Internal Migration During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain
| Authors | Miguel González-Leonardo, Antonio López-Gay, Niall Newsham, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Using Twitter to Track Immigration Sentiment During Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Michael Mahony, Eduardo Graells-Garrido, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Developing two-dimensional indicators of transport demand and supply at small area levels to promote sustainable transport equity.
| Authors | Patrick Ballantyne, Gabriele Filomena, Francisco Rowe, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A Long Short-Term Memory Forecast of sub-National Population Change Across Europe
| Authors | Niall Newsham, Pavitra Kumar, Carmen Cabrera-Arnau, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Sensing Global Changes in Local Patterns of Energy Consumption in Cities During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Caitlin Robinson, Nikos Patias | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Locating “Left Behind” Places and People in England: Scale, Trajectory, and the Challenge of Multidimensionality
| Authors | Victoria Houlden, Caitlin Robinson, Rachel S. Franklin, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Unravelling the Brexit-COVID-19 Nexus: Assessing the Decline of EU Student Applications into UK Universities
| Authors | Ruth Neville, Francisco Rowe, Alex Singleton | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Internal Migration Intensity and Impact in Europe
| Authors | Francisco Rowe | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Deriving Spatio-Temporal Geographies of Human Mobility from GPS traces
| Authors | Alessia Calafiore, Nombuyisielo Murage, Andrea Nasuto, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Spatial Interaction Modelling: A Manifesto
| Authors | Francisco Rowe, Robin Lovelace, Adam Dennett | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Uncovering Heterogeneity by Development Level: Delving Deeper into International Student Mobility into The UK Using UCAS Admissions Data
| Authors | Ruth Neville, Francisco Rowe, Alex Singleton | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Understanding the Trajectories of Population Decline Across Rural and Urban Europe: A Sequence Analysis
| Authors | Niall Newsham, Francisco Rowe | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Evaluating the effects of Australian policy changes on human capital: the role of a graduate visa scheme
| Authors | Alessandra Faggian, Jonathan Corcoran, Francisco Rowe |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy |
Local urban attributes defining ethnically segregated areas across English cities: A multilevel approach
| Authors | Nikos Patias, Francisco Rowe, Dani Arribas-Bel |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Cities |
| Citations (WoS) | 5 |