Digital Empathy Project on BBC Click
The interactive systems we developed as part of our project on Digital Empathy for St Peter De Beauvoir Town Church in Hackney are featured on BBC Click
Research Associate, December 2012 to August 2015 Cartographic Design, GIS, Data Visualisation, Place Theory, Space Legibility, Remote Sensing
I am a cartographer, programmer and spatial analyst working in Imagination Lancaster. Following my ‘first’ career as the Technical Manager of a wind farm development company, I moved into academia to pursue research interests that include: the role of cartography in a digital age, the theory of ‘place’, the capture and visualisation of geographic features with indeterminate boundaries, and the role of spatial ambiguity as a cartographic device. My previous work includes the release of the widely used ‘Map-Me’ PPGIS platform, and is currently focussed upon the development of bespoke base-maps for mobile applications.
At Imagination I work on the Creating and Exploring Digital Empathy (CEDE) project, where I mostly write software and build physical objects in order to engender empathy between users. In addition to CEDE, I also provide data and cartographic srervices for a number of other projects, as well as other less specific technical or writing contributions.
I studied BSc Geography at Lancaster University, and MSc Geographical Information Systems at the University of Leeds. I am currently in my 4th year of a part-time PhD in Geographical Information Science (Design), back at Lancaster University.
The interactive systems we developed as part of our project on Digital Empathy for St Peter De Beauvoir Town Church in Hackney are featured on BBC Click
a collaborative cartographic workshop
The CEDE installations at St Peter's De Beauvoir Town Church have been cited in relation to the argument for WiFi to be installed in every Church of England Church