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Yim Ling Siu Dr Yim Ling Siu

Senior Teaching Fellow

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 36717
Email address: Y.L.Siu@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 10.18h

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Qualifications

  • Honours Diploma in Geography, H.K. Baptist University (formerly H.K. Baptist College);
  • M.A. & Ph.D. in Human Geography, University of Leeds.

Research Interests

Risk analysis, environmental modelling and information systems, knowledge management, Internet-based environmental applications.

Yim Ling joined the School in December 1999 as an ESRC funded post-doctoral researcher focusing on development of quality audit tools for Science for environmental policy. She became a Senior Research Fellow in 2000 and then appointed as Teaching Fellow by the School in 2002.

Yim Ling has over 15 years research work experience in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaborations in the fields of energy, water, transport and the environment. Before joining the School, she had been at the Institute for Transport Studies working on various research projects, centring on land-based transport and the environment, in particular forecasting travel demands in relation to socio-economic changes, modelling new and used car prices and demand, monitoring traffic volumes via automated traffic counters, examining pedestrian safety via conflict studies and applying multimedia applications on transport surveys and data collection on the Internet. Before that she graduated and worked in the School of Geography, developing computer-based geographic information systems (GIS) models in two environmental areas: energy resource modelling and planning, and water pollution and quality monitoring. She has a Ph.D. from the School of Geography in energy planning and modelling.

Her research interests focus on 3 primary areas: (1) risks, in particular environmental risk perception and decision-making based on system dynamics and knowledge management perspectives; (2) quality audit for science, in particular the knowledge divide between "public understanding of science" and "scientist's understanding of the general public" based on deliberative-participatory, web-based approach; (3) environmental informatics and modelling, in particular developing forecasting models and information systems for environmental analysis and assessment based on geographic information system (GIS) and database applications. Her recent research work, developed with the late Prof. Sally Macgill, on developing a new paradigm of risk analysis will have significant contributions to the understanding of risk and sustainability in modern societies.

Teaching Interests

Yim Ling has experience in coordinating and managing research projects as well as teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is currently responsible for teaching 6 undergraduate modules and 1 postgraduate module in which she is the module leader, as well as supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students (including PhD students) at the School.

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