Biography
Dr Faith Taylor is a physical geographer with interests in geographic information systems (GIS), spatial modelling, statistics and natural hazards. She is a Lecturer in Physical Geography Education in the Department of Geography.
Faith has a MSc in Environmental Modelling, Monitoring and Management and a PhD from King's College London. Her PhD thesis focused on statistical patterns in triggered landslide event inventories and the development of a landslide road impact model.
Between 2015 and 2017, she undertook two post-doctoral research positions at King’s College London, with a focus on hazard and risk in towns and cities in the Global South. These projects were ‘Urban Africa Risk Knowledge’ and ‘Why we Disagree about Resilience’.
Between 2017 and 2019 she was a Lecturer in Geographic Information System (GIS) at the University of Portsmouth.
During her PhD and postdoctoral research at King's, she co-founded Intrepid Explorers, which is a platform to promote the value of field-based research in education and inspire others to do safe and impactful field research. With colleagues, she also established King's Humanitarian Mappers, which is a group of staff and students who run ‘mapathons’ (mapping marathons) to put remote and vulnerable places on maps that are available to all.
In the video below Faith tells us about her current NERC innovation project 'Expressive Mapping of Resilient Futures'.
Research
- Natural Hazards
- GIS
- Urban Africa
- Low-data cost spatial models
- Landslides
- Python
- R
- Open data
- OpenStreetMap mapathons
- Free Open Source GIS (FOSS-GIS)
Faith's research looks at the development and use of spatial and statistical models for natural hazards, particularly in the urban Global South. Previous research includes: 1) developing a spatial model of road infrastructure network disruptions from triggered landslide events; 2) assessing multi-hazard infrastructure risk in urban Africa; and 3) qualitative GIS techniques to visualise resilience in informal settlements.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- 4SSG1011 Principles of Geographical Inquiry
- 4SSG1012 The Changing Natural Environment
- 5SSG2064 Global Environmental Issues: Science and Solutions
- 5SSG2042 Natural Hazards
- 6SSG3064 Advanced Issues in Natural and Environmental Hazards
Further details
See Faith's research profile
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Gill, J. C., Taylor, F., Duncan, M., Mohadjer, S., Budimir, M., Mdala, H. & Bukachi, V., 19 Jan 2021, In: Natural Hazards And Earth System Sciences. 21, 1, p. 187-202 16 p., 12. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-187-2021
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Taylor, F. E., Tarolli, P. & Malamud, B. D., 1 Oct 2020, In: Natural Hazards And Earth System Sciences. 20, 10, p. 2585-2590 6 p., nhess-20-2585-2020. Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2585-2020
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Taylor, F., Millington, J., Malamud, B. & Pelling, M., 1 Jun 2020, In: LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING. 198, 103771. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103771
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Wood, J. L., Harrison, S., Reinhardt, L. & Taylor, F. E., 15 Apr 2020, In: Geomorphology. 355, 107061. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107061
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Borie, M., Ziervogel, G., Taylor, F., Millington, J. D. A., Sitas, R. & Pelling, M., Sep 2019, In: Environmental science & policy. 99, p. 1-9 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dodman, D., Adelekan, I., Brown, D., Leck, H., Manda, M., Mberu, B., Pelling, M., Rusca, M., Satterthwaite, D. & Taylor, F., 9 Dec 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Area. 9 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12510
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Taylor, F. E., Malamud, B. D., Witt, A. & Guzzetti, F., 19 Oct 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4479
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Taylor, F. E., Malamud, B. D., Freeborough, K. & Demeritt, D., 15 Nov 2015, In: Geomorphology. 249, p. 52-68 17 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.05.019
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Minelli, A., Marchesini, I., Taylor, F. E., De Rosa, P., Casagrande, L. & Cenci, M., Nov 2014, In: Environmental impact assessment review. 49, p. 70-78 9 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2014.07.002