Dr Kate Jones
Lecturer, University of Portsmouth

Email address: kate.jones@port.ac.uk

Kate has recently taken up the post of Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth.

Kate (sometimes known as Catherine) had been a researcher at UCL for 3 and a half years following the completion of her MSc in GIS.  Kate's first degree is in Environmental Geochemistry from Royal Holloway after which she went to work in the city as a reporting analyst and project planner.  After a few years she enrolled at UCL to complete a GIS Masters.

On completing her Masters she joined CASA where she worked within a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Camden Primary Care Trust (PCT) implementing Geodemographic and Geographic Information Systems technology within the PCT. She has also completed a PhD degree in the area of exploring applications of health survey data and geodemographic technologies for informing social marketing practice.

Kate is currently working on an EPSRC funded project exploring Successful Suburban Town Centres within London. The project is a joint collaboration at UCL between the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies and the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. The project is combining Space Syntax and GIS techniques to analyse the way in which suburban space is being utilised by people and to integrate the social and economic data with information about urban form.