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School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University
B4 7ET Birmingham
United Kingdom
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I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
I joined the School in 2003 after 3 years as a software developer, where I focussed
on maintaining map data integrity and currency for field workers who may only
have intermittent communication with a central GIS server. As a lecturer at Aston,
I engage extensively with schools, industry and community groups and have
received Excellence Awards for my teaching. Much of my research is interdisciplinary,
involving, for example, collaborations with microbiologists, economists and town planners. My work on a recent secondment as a Senior Researcher at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission combined software development and remote sensing experience to generate Web-based landcover validation tools for use by an international community of experts in biodiversity and forestry monitoring.
Having worked for the Birmingham Urban Wildlife Trust as a school leaver, I developed an interest in urban ecology and green corridors which led to a PhD on the spatial pattern and dispersal of plant species within the urban mosaic of remnant and emerging habitat fragments. Patch quality, geometry and isolation were modelled to compare the occupancy of available habitat to that predicted by metapopulation models. The thesis also identified apparent source-sink effects in the woodland herb Melampyrum pratense, within Sutton Park, Birmingham. During this time I also completed an MSc in GIS at the University of Leicester, publishing my dissertation on sub-pixel classification methods for handling 'mixed pixels' in remotely-sensed imagery.
My first postdoctoral post was on the EU-supported project FLIERS (Fuzzy Land Information from Environmental Remote Sensing) at the University of Leicester, concentrating on:
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Aston University, 2009
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Phone number: +44 (0)121 204 3560
Email: l.bastin@aston.ac.uk
Room Number: MB2
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Lumsden, Jo (Recipient), Lush, Victoria (Recipient) & Bastin, Lucy (Recipient), Jul 2018
Prize: National/international honour
Lucy Bastin (Organiser)
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement