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Scott Bell

ResearcherUrban GeographyUniversity of Saskatchewan

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Scott Bell

Researcher

Urban Geography

Social Sciences and Humanities

University of Saskatchewan

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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4 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 SSHRC), most recently in 2024.

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Research

Housing Accelerator Fund Land Use and Planning

Latest papers

Temporal shifts in area-level access to cycling infrastructure for equity-deserving groups in three Canadian cities: A descriptive epidemiologic study.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026
Building CapaCITY/É for sustainable transportation: protocol for an implementation science research program in healthy cities.
BMJ open · 2024
Wave 1 results of the INTerventions, Research, and Action in Cities Team (INTERACT) cohort study: Examining spatio-temporal measures for urban environments and health.
Health & place · 2023

All 11 publications

Latest funding

Transforming Cities Through Federal Housing Policy
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$24,272
INTerventions, Equity, Research and Action in Cities Team (INTERACT)
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$918,000
The human dimensions of a thawing landscape
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$239,525

All 8 grants and awards

11 publications.

Temporal shifts in area-level access to cycling infrastructure for equity-deserving groups in three Canadian cities: A descriptive epidemiologic study.

Mamiya H, Thierry B, Stephens ZP, Bell S, Diab E, Kestens Y, Winters M, Fuller D

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-026-01209-7 PMID: 42098458

Building CapaCITY/É for sustainable transportation: protocol for an implementation science research program in healthy cities.

Winters M, Fuller D, Cloutier MS, Harris MA, Howard A, Kestens Y, Kirk S, Macpherson A, Moore S, Rothman L, Shareck M, Tomasone JR, Laberee K, Stephens ZP, Sones M, Ayton D, Batomen B, Bell S, Collins P, Diab E, Giles AR, Hagel BE, Harris MS, Harris P, Lachapelle U, Manaugh K, Mitra R, Muhajarine N, Myrdahl TM, Pettit CJ, Pike I, Skouteris H, Wachsmuth D, Whitehurst D, Beck B

BMJ open2024

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-085850 PMID: 38631827

Wave 1 results of the INTerventions, Research, and Action in Cities Team (INTERACT) cohort study: Examining spatio-temporal measures for urban environments and health.

Fuller D, Bell S, Firth CL, Muhajarine N, Nelson T, Stanley K, Sones M, Smith J, Thierry B, Laberee K, Stephens ZP, Phillips K, Kestens Y, Winters M

Health & place2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102646 PMID: 34366232

Using combined Global Position System and accelerometer data points to examine how built environments and gentrification are associated with physical activity in four Canadian cities.

Firth CL, Kestens Y, Winters M, Stanley K, Bell S, Thierry B, Phillips K, Poirier-Stephens Z, Fuller D

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity2022

DOI: 10.1186/s12966-022-01306-z PMID: 35799198

Intrinsic dimensionality of human behavioral activity data.

Fragoso L, Paul T, Vadan F, Stanley KG, Bell S, Osgood ND

PloS one2019

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218966 PMID: 31247031

INTERACT: A comprehensive approach to assess urban form interventions through natural experiments.

Kestens Y, Winters M, Fuller D, Bell S, Berscheid J, Brondeel R, Cantinotti M, Datta G, Gauvin L, Gough M, Laberee K, Lewis P, Lord S, Luan HH, McKay H, Morency C, Muhajarine N, Nelson T, Ottoni C, Stephens ZP, Pugh C, Rancourt G, Shareck M, Sims-Gould J, Sones M, Stanley K, Thierry B, Thigpen C, Wasfi R

BMC public health2019

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-018-6339-z PMID: 30630441

How many days are enough?: capturing routine human mobility.

Stanley K, Yoo EH, Paul T, Bell S

International journal of geographical information science : IJGIS2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2018.1434888 PMID: 31379465

Spatial Accessibility to Health Care Services: Identifying under-Serviced Neighbourhoods in Canadian Urban Areas.

Shah TI, Bell S, Wilson K

PloS one2016

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168208 PMID: 27997577

Strategic Environmental Assessment Framework for Landscape-Based, Temporal Analysis of Wetland Change in Urban Environments.

Sizo A, Noble BF, Bell S

Environmental management2016Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s00267-015-0640-8 PMID: 26645076

Geographic access to healthy and unhealthy food sources for children in neighbourhoods and from elementary schools in a mid-sized Canadian city.

Engler-Stringer R, Shah T, Bell S, Muhajarine N

Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology2014

DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2014.07.001 PMID: 25457594

Transforming Cities Through Federal Housing Policy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Bell, Scott M.

Keywords: Housing Accelerator Fund; Land Use and Planning

$24,272

INTerventions, Equity, Research and Action in Cities Team (INTERACT)

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Fuller, Daniel L; Bracewell, Dale; Cloutier, Irène; Kestens, Yan; McDonald, James; Webb, Sarah; Winters, Meghan

Keywords: Equity; Healthy Cities; Natural Experiments; Physical Activity; Social Connectedness; Urban Planning; Well-Being

$918,000

The human dimensions of a thawing landscape

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Development Grants

Keywords: knowledge co-production; boundary objectives; knowledge mobilization

$239,525

How the geospatial web 2.0 is reshaping government-citizen interactions

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012Partnership Grants

Keywords: geospatial web 2.0; governance; web 2.0; user generated content; volunteered geographic information

$2,552,984

Program of Intervention Research to Reduce Child and Family Health Inequity in an Urban Setting

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Operating Grant: Programmatic Grants to tackle health and health equity - LOI

Principal investigators: Muhajarine, Nazeem; Neudorf, Cordell (Cory) O

Keywords: Aboriginal Health; Child Health And Development; Health Equity Audit; Health Inequities; Mixed Methods; Neighbourhood Effects; Population Health Intervention Research; Prevention Care - Primary; Public Health; Secondary; Urban Health

$15,000

Validating sketch maps for the examination of geography and related knowledge

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Bell, Scott M.

Keywords: sketch mapping; spatial cognition; giscience

$86,726

The state of the charitable human service sector in New Brunswick: resources and challenges

Co-investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Gill, Carmen

Keywords: service delivery; social services; health; governance; community-based organization

$109,080

Protecting spaces/sustaining places: the role of (un)common property regimes

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Bell, Scott M.

Keywords: ecosystem management; gis; community sustainability; mixed-methods

$98,390

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Scott Bell

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Temporal shifts in area-level access to cycling infrastructure for equity-deserving groups in three Canadian cities: A descriptive epidemiologic study.

Building CapaCITY/&#xc9; for sustainable transportation: protocol for an implementation science research program in healthy cities.

Wave 1 results of the INTerventions, Research, and Action in Cities Team (INTERACT) cohort study: Examining spatio-temporal measures for urban environments and health.

Using combined Global Position System and accelerometer data points to examine how built environments and gentrification are associated with physical activity in four Canadian cities.

Intrinsic dimensionality of human behavioral activity data.

INTERACT: A comprehensive approach to assess urban form interventions through natural experiments.

How many days are enough?: capturing routine human mobility.

Spatial Accessibility to Health Care Services: Identifying under-Serviced Neighbourhoods in Canadian Urban Areas.

Strategic Environmental Assessment Framework for Landscape-Based, Temporal Analysis of Wetland Change in Urban Environments.

Geographic access to healthy and unhealthy food sources for children in neighbourhoods and from elementary schools in a mid-sized Canadian city.

Transforming Cities Through Federal Housing Policy

INTerventions, Equity, Research and Action in Cities Team (INTERACT)

The human dimensions of a thawing landscape

How the geospatial web 2.0 is reshaping government-citizen interactions

Program of Intervention Research to Reduce Child and Family Health Inequity in an Urban Setting

Validating sketch maps for the examination of geography and related knowledge

The state of the charitable human service sector in New Brunswick: resources and challenges

Protecting spaces/sustaining places: the role of (un)common property regimes

Frequent collaborators

Meghan Winters

Kevin Stanley

Nazeem Muhajarine

Yan Kestens

Daniel Fuller

Karen Laberee

Ehab Diab

Ian Pike

Lise Gauvin

Marie-Soleil Cloutier

Martine Shareck

Sarah Moore

Andrew Howard

Linda Rothman

Brice Batomen

Catherine Morency

David Wachsmuth

Raktim Mitra

Kevin Manaugh

Alison Macpherson

Building CapaCITY/É for sustainable transportation: protocol for an implementation science research program in healthy cities.