Dr Kenneth Field CGeog (GIS)

Biography

Occupation: Principal Lecturer Employer: Kingston University Memo: Dr Kenneth Field is a Senior Cartographic Product Engineer at Esri in California. Prior to this move, he was Principal Lecturer at Kingston University London and Course Director for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Centre for GIS. A graduate of Oxford Polytechnic's cartography degree programme, he has spent his career enthusing successive groups of students at Northampton and Kingston Universities on cartographic design and production, increasingly through the use of GIS technologies. He has presented at over 100 conferences worldwide, published about 50 papers and book chapters and is the current Editor of The Cartographic Journal. In 2009 he was in receipt of an Honorary SPLINT Fellowship and he is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, RGS-IBG and British Cartographic Society. He has delivered a number of invited keynotes and regularly takes part as a speaker at events delivering CPD programmes to delegates of BCS, AGI and as part of the programmes at Kingston University. He continues to practice cartography and has authored a number of large format special purpose maps. He has received over a dozen international awards for his mapping as well as supervising students who have received national awards for their own work. Dr Field's work is largely in the area of developing effective techniques for digital mapping and geovisualisation through the use of GIS technologies.