Lindsey Smith

Lindsey Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at The University of Toronto (St. George) and holds a PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Smith’s research focuses on built and social environments as targets for promoting sustained healthy behaviours, social equity, and more environmentally sustainable communities. Her work incorporates the use of multi-disciplinary data, including GPS trajectory information, to enhance understanding of relationships between urban form, mobility, and health, as well as pathways to behaviour change. Recent projects explore household food environments, changes in physical activity in response to new transport infrastructure, and geographies of care.

Publications 

Smith, L., Burgoine, T., Ogilvie, D., Jones, A., Coombes, E., Panter, J. (2023) “Demonstrating the applicability of using GPS and interview data to understand changes in use of space in response to new transport infrastructure: the case of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, UK”, Journal of Transport & Health, 30. DOI: 10.1016/j.jth.2023.101620.

Smith, L. G., Ma, M. Y., Widener, M. J., & Farber, S. (2023) “Geographies of grocery shopping in major Canadian cities: Evidence from large-scale mobile app data”, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 50(3). DOI: 10.1177/23998083221129272

Smith, L., Widener, M., Liu, B., Farber, S., Minaker, L., Patterson, Z., Larsen, K. and Gilliland, J. (2021) “Comparing Household and Individual Measures of Access through a Food Environment Lens: What Household Food Opportunities Are Missed When Measuring Access to Food Retail at the Individual Level?”, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(2). DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2021.1930513.

Smith, L., Foley, L. and Panter, J. (2019) “Activity spaces in studies of the environment and physical activity: A review and synthesis of implications for causality”, Health & Place, 58. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.04.003.