Research
Research groups
Research interests
- geospatial analysis
- migration mapping
- human mobility
- disease modelling
- ecologial mapping
Publications
Biography
Dorothea Woods is a GIS Analyst & Trainer within Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton.
Since 2016 Thea has been at the University of Southampton where she works on a wide range of GIS projects. For the WorldPop project she provides GIS analysis for population modelling, public health and mobility. In her latest project she utilises decomposition and clustering techniques on mobile phone data to explore seasonal mobility within Namibia. A recently completed project modelled subnational migration disaggregated by gender in the Global South (https://gravier.shinyapps.io/fdfa_01_dev_v4/).
Thea also manages a CPD program of GIS training for the enterprise unit GeoData and contributes to consultancy projects often with an environmental or social science component.
Before joining UoS, Thea worked for German Universities on an open source project visualizing interactive maps of Kenya's fast shrinking forests using UMN Mapserver, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, PHP and Javascript followed by work on a German wide assessment of the restoration potential of floodplains by taking into account a wide range of environmental and manmade factors.