Rachel Walker

Rights Lab Research Associate in Geospatial Data Science and Earth Observation

Email: rachel.walker4@nottingham.ac.uk

Rachel Walker works as part of the Measurement and Geographies Programme on a research project that is analysing the intersection of labour and environmental abuses South Asia. This includes a focus on bonded labour data and air pollution data from India. Her research background is in Geography, and she is currently completing a PhD with the Nottingham Geospatial Institute that uses statistics and machine learning in Python to analyse satellite, airborne and ground data to assess peat condition in near-natural, under restoration and eroded environments, then visualises spatial data using a GIS. Prior to the PhD, she completed a Masters in Geospatial Data Science that used machine learning, and previously taught secondary school geography.