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Faith Taylor

Dr Faith Taylor

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography

Research interests

  • Education
  • Geography

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 in the Department of Geography.

Faith completed her MSc in Environmental Modelling, Monitoring and Management and her PhD at 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, 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
  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

    Research

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    Physical & Environmental Geography research group

    Researching the interactions between the Earth’s hydrological, geomorphological, atmospheric and ecological processes at different geographical scales.

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    Earth Observation and Environmental Sensing Hub

    The Earth Observation and Environmental Sensing (EOES) Hub is an interdisciplinary research group at the Department of Geography, King’s College London.

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    Centre for Integrated Research in Risk & Resilience

    Bringing together research disciplines to shape a critical perspective on resilience and its application as a concept.

    News

    £260,000 awarded to new project examining household preparedness to natural hazards in the Global South

    The research project, involving a King’s geographer, will analyse and support the development of household preparedness to natural disasters and hazards in...

    Earthquake disaster rescue operation

    Transparency around science can help 'Build Back Better' from COVID-19

    New paper led by King’s academics says political and uneven access to scientific knowledge affected public trust and paved the way for ‘alternative knowledge’.

    Coronavirus dashboard

    Features

    Meet our SSPP research grant winners

    Find out about some of the research projects underway across the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy

    books and lights hero 1903

    How do you manage COVID-19 with a population density of 130,000 people per square kilometre?

    Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa, is collating data during the pandemic that could shape the future narrative around slums.

    Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya © Ninara

    Spotlight

    Putting survivors at the centre of disaster response

    When disasters hit, International NGOs go to help reconstruct in the aftermath. However this usually creates a long term dependence on humanitarian aid....

    Climate change flooding Bangladesh

      Research

      earth-banner
      Physical & Environmental Geography research group

      Researching the interactions between the Earth’s hydrological, geomorphological, atmospheric and ecological processes at different geographical scales.

      lidar_image_london_Kelly
      Earth Observation and Environmental Sensing Hub

      The Earth Observation and Environmental Sensing (EOES) Hub is an interdisciplinary research group at the Department of Geography, King’s College London.

      environmental pollution smoke stacks
      Centre for Integrated Research in Risk & Resilience

      Bringing together research disciplines to shape a critical perspective on resilience and its application as a concept.

      News

      £260,000 awarded to new project examining household preparedness to natural hazards in the Global South

      The research project, involving a King’s geographer, will analyse and support the development of household preparedness to natural disasters and hazards in...

      Earthquake disaster rescue operation

      Transparency around science can help 'Build Back Better' from COVID-19

      New paper led by King’s academics says political and uneven access to scientific knowledge affected public trust and paved the way for ‘alternative knowledge’.

      Coronavirus dashboard

      Features

      Meet our SSPP research grant winners

      Find out about some of the research projects underway across the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy

      books and lights hero 1903

      How do you manage COVID-19 with a population density of 130,000 people per square kilometre?

      Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa, is collating data during the pandemic that could shape the future narrative around slums.

      Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya © Ninara

      Spotlight

      Putting survivors at the centre of disaster response

      When disasters hit, International NGOs go to help reconstruct in the aftermath. However this usually creates a long term dependence on humanitarian aid....

      Climate change flooding Bangladesh