Peter Kedron

Peter Kedron joined the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning in Fall 2018. His research program develops and uses spatial analytical methods to understanding persistently uneven patterns of spatial development. His recent work focuses on improving the production and accumulation of knowledge used to benefit society through policy.

Reproducibility and Replicability: In collaboration with students and colleagues, I am developing research practices and pedagogical models that integrate reproduction, replication, and geographic analysis. Integrating space and spatial thinking into reproductions and replications is critical given the growing use of spatial data across the sciences and the increasing number of mandates that the evidence we use to inform policy be reproducible and validated by replication. We also evaluate existing claims by reproducing and replicating published work from across the discipline.

Evidence Accumulation: My group and I are working to develop frameworks and approaches to the problem of evidence accumulation, when the signal from the evidence we are accumulating is obscured and altered by differences between places and local confounds. Ultimately, we believe our work can accelerate discovery and strengthen the evidence base we use to make policy.