
Laura Sheppard
@laurahsheppard
Quantitative Human Geographer. PhD from @CASAUCL. Love of geography, gender equality & data science. Research interests in socio-spatial inequalities (she/her)
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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa/laura-sheppard 26-06-2020 11:09:08
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Very proud of this paper and hopefully it is just the start of exciting things to come! Thank you as ever to Jon Reades @jreades.🦋.social & Richard Freeman for all the edits & discussions. Now to finishing the PhD and sharing some results!






Check out April's QMRG ECR Newsletter! We talk about our conference experiences at GISRUK and PAA and feature a paper by Niall Newsham and Francisco Rowe ✌️. If you aren't signed up, why not? If you want to be featured in May's newletter, hit us up!☀️ mailchi.mp/8a62f61d2c54/a…


A reminder we are looking for entries for the Quantitative Methods Research Group PGR May newsletter. If you have a recent paper, would like to share your research more generally, or have a good idea for a topic - we'd love to hear it! Drop me a dm or email us! 👇☀️❗️

How can diversity in research be increased? Laura Sheppard, Jon Reades @jreades.🦋.social, and Richard Freeman propose a new agenda to develop a better understanding of gender in higher education bit.ly/41Zm8NV


Laura Sheppard and I are excited to be organising a special PGR session on quantitative geography on Friday morning! This session is sponsored by the Quantitative Methods Research Group and is part of our work to build an ECR network of quantitative geographers #RGSIBG23

📣 Reminder of PGR Quantitative Methods session at Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual conference tomorrow morning 📣 We will be in the Drayson Room (and online) at 9am and then in the Skempton Building 060A at 11:10am. So you have two chances to catch us! #RGSIBG23


Very happy to say that I submitted my PhD thesis today!! Seven chapters and 75,000 later…and it’s done (just in time for Christmas!). Grateful to my supervisors Jon Reades @jreades.🦋.social and Richard Freeman for all their help with getting it over the line. Ready for a little rest now!


Delighted to say I passed my PhD viva this afternoon (with minor corrections). Thank you so much to my enthusiastic examiners Prof @rsfrankl and Prof Paul Wakeling for an enjoyable discussion (after the adrenaline wore off) and my wonderful supervisors Jon Reades @jreades.🦋.social and Richard Freeman.





Looking for a candidate to work on a PhD project supervised by me and Francisco Rowe ✌️. The candidate will be based at the GeoDataScience and work closely with UK Health Security Agency. Funding is available for UK and international applicants!! Apply here before June 30: shorturl.at/kO46k.
