Rate My Professor Ed Manley

Ed Manley is Professor of Urban Analytics in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, where he joined in 2019. He leads the Mobility Science Lab research group within the Institute for Spatial Data Science and serves as Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Environment. Previously, he was Lecturer and Associate Professor at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, where he completed his Engineering Doctorate. From 2018 to 2023, he held a Turing Fellowship at the Alan Turing Institute. Manley is also Honorary Professor at University College London. He has previously served as Director of Research, Interim Vice Dean for Research, and Interim Co-Head of School in the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at UCL. As Principal and Co-Investigator, he has led over £40 million in funded research from sources including EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, ERC, Wellcome Trust, and Leverhulme Trust. Key projects include serving as Principal Investigator on the UK-Canada AI Initiative RAIM for Responsible Automation for Inclusive Mobility, Co-Investigator and Flagship Lead on EPSRC INFUZE for zero-carbon mobility, Deputy Director of the ESRC Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service, and Co-Director of the Consumer Data Research Centre. In 2022, he won the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Geography. He was shortlisted for the Newton Prize in 2020 and awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2025.