Rachel S Franklin

Rachel Franklin is a professor of geographical analysis at Newcastle University, affiliated with the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS). She was previously associate director of the Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) initiative at Brown University and associate professor (research) of population studies in Brown's Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC). Franklin's research is centered on the interaction between geography and demography, from spatial...See more

Rachel Franklin is a professor of geographical analysis at Newcastle University, affiliated with the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS). She was previously associate director of the Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) initiative at Brown University and associate professor (research) of population studies in Brown's Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC). Franklin's research is centered on the interaction between geography and demography, from spatial analysis methods for population change to migration to the evolution of population composition. Her current research focuses on the measurement, impacts, and demographic sources of population loss in the United States and Europe. Other ongoing work investigates the impacts of college student migration on human capital distribution in the U.S., as well as the shifting geographical patterns of racial/ethnic diversity across U.S. counties and states. Franklin has also published on migration trends and data in the United States, as well as regional fertility change in Italy. Franklin is the current editor of Geographical Analysis and past book review editor of the Journal of Regional Science. She serves on the editorial boards of Population, Space and Place, as well as Urban Climate and Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning. She is also the outgoing president of the Population Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers and a past executive director of the Western Regional Science Association. Her research has been supported internally by Brown University, as well as by the United States' National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. See less