Oliver Burdekin is a Departmental Lecturer in Environmental GIS and a GIS consultant and trainer. He has worked with geographic information systems for more than a decade, specialising in environmental and ecological applications of spatial analysis, mapping and field data collection.
Alongside his teaching at Oxford, Oliver runs burdGIS, through which he provides GIS training and consultancy to organisations working in conservation, planning, heritage, environmental management and related sectors. His work spans QGIS, ArcGIS, web mapping, spatial data management and mobile field survey workflows.
Oliver has taught GIS to a wide range of learners, from complete beginners to experienced professionals, in both online and face-to-face settings. His particular interests include practical approaches to spatial analysis, cartography, geospatial data quality and the use of GIS to support ecological and environmental decision-making.
He is also interested in how new technologies, including mobile data collection and immersive visualisation, can be used to improve the way spatial information is collected, analysed and communicated.
