Jillian Eldridge
PhD Student, Birkbeck

Telephone: 020 7631 6478
Email: j.eldridge@geography.bbk.ac.uk

Jillian Eldridge is currently a PhD student with the School of Geography, she joined the School in 2008 and her research subject is entitled 'Flood risk, vulnerability and planning policy in the Thames Gateway'. The project aims to quantify and understand flood risk to development areas in the Gateway with a particular emphasis on planning policy and how it can work to reduce the impact of flooding on development sites. The project is an EPSRC CASE studentship and is being conducted with the Willis Research Network.

With a first degree in Biological Sciences (King's College London) her interest in Geography developed through undertaking an MSc in Environmental Science (Birkbeck) and she has continued this interest as a PhD subject. Jillian has also worked with UCL; within the medical school as a Senior Technician and as a Laboratory Manager with the Centre for Rheumatology Research.

Recent Presentations

• 2009 Presentation at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna

• 2008 Paper Presentation at the European Flood Risk Management Research into Practice Conference, Oxford

• 2008 Presentation at the Royal Geographical Society’s Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference, London