Jane Fielding

Dr. Jane Fielding is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey, specializing in quantitative methods and environmental sociology. She holds a DPhil in Biochemistry (1976) and has held academic positions since 1981, initially on part-time contracts in Sociology, Psychology, and Human Biology departments. Her research focuses on environmental justice, flood risk management, GIS applications, and social inequality. She co-directs the ESRC-funded QUIC Node, advancing qualitative-quantitative integration in research methodologies.

• Education: DPhil in Biochemistry (1976), BSc

Her research integrates large government datasets (e.g., census data, BSA surveys) with GIS tools to analyze environmental risk distribution. Notable projects include studies on flood vulnerability, women in STEM, and environmental inequality. She has authored/co-authored books on social statistics and contributed to over 20 peer-reviewed articles and reports. Her teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate quantitative methods and GIS workshops.

Key collaborations include Defra/Environment Agency projects on flood warning systems and ESRC-funded work on mixed-methods research. She has advised on policy initiatives such as the Athena Project to advance women in academia.