About US
GIS Team
All of the GIS staff are employed by Groundwork UK through the South East Regional Team. Although we are based in Groundwork's office in London, we work on projects or provide support for local Trusts across the country.
All staff are members of the industry body the AGI (Association for Geographic Information).
GIS Manager - Paul Hodgson
Paul leads Groundwork's GIS team and developed many of the services and products that we now offer. Paul has an MSc in GISc from Birkbeck College, is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and is working towards a CGeog (GIS). He also has a Certificate in Environmental Management through Groundwork's Management Development Programme.
Paul worked for Groundwork Thames Valley between 1992 and 2003. Experience includes running community consultations, producing feasibility studies, fund-raising, and managing programmes up to £3/4m. Paul was Operations Manager for several years and was involved in developing a social enterprise'West London Floating Classroom'.
GIS Officer - David Edmends
David Edmends has been a GIS Officer for Groundwork since January 2005. He was initially employed to research sustainable transport issues in the South East as part of the Home to Hub project funded by SEEDA. His background in GIS began at Manchester Metropolitan University where he studied GIS with North American Studies and continued at Nottingham University where he completed a MSc in GIS.
His current main focus of work centres around the delivery of web based public participation GIS, including interactive web based mapping, and animated 3D models for planning purposes.
GIS Officer - Tom Harrison
Tom's background is a BSc (Hons) in Geographic Information Science from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. The degree covered all aspects of GIS with a years foundation in land survey techniques.
After graduation, Tom was employed by Korec, a company specialising in the use of GPS and mobile GIS for surveying sites. His role was technical support and training throughout the UK for the GIS & Mapping division. Duties ranged from email & telephone support, training, compilation of training documents and software development. Tom also used to provide training across Europe and Asia for Trimble.
GIS Assistant - Thomas Puthusserry
Thomas joined the GIS unit in March 2008. He holds an M.Sc (Tech) in Geophysics and worked as a research scientist at the National Geophysical Research Institute, India. Previous experience includes working on a project using GIS to assess groundwater quality and feeding the results back to communities and also researching climate changes. He has published over 15 scientific papers in different international journals.
His role includes assisting the GIS Team in data management, spatial analysis, mapping, monitoring and evaluation services.
GIS Volunteers
People volunteering with us include those looking for work experience, people looking for something useful to do with their free time and people just wishing to get out and meet others. By being part of our organisation, you can make a real difference to the environment and other people's lives.
If you would like to find out more, please contact: Paul Hodgson (phodgson@groundwork.org.uk)
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