Mr. Keith T. Mason

Title: Senior Experimental Officer
Phone: (+44) 01782 7 33170
Email:
Location: William Smith Building : WS 0.13
Role: Year 1 Tutor (Geography, Human Geography, Physical Geography);
Study Abroad Subject Tutor (Geography, Human Geography, Physical Geography);
Chair Geography Staff-Student Liaison Committee;
Chair School Computing and IT Committee;
Chair, School Ethics Committee;
Earth Sciences & Geography Library Representative
Contacting me: I always like to employ an open door policy - try my office or if necessary fix an appointment by email
Mason_Keith

I was appointed as Experimental Officer at Keele University in February 1990 having previously had a variety of different support roles at Keele since 1974 – a lifetime! My first degree, BSc (Hons) Geography was obtained from the University of London (1973) and my MSc in Geographical Information Systems from Leicester University (1989). I was promoted to Senior Experimental Officer in 1997.

Map My main areas of research are around the general themes of:

  1. Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
  2. Medical Geography
  3. Social Demography

During the period 2000 – present I have been a joint holder of two major EPRC grants with colleagues in Computer Science. The first, Managing vagueness, uncertainty and granularity in spatial information systems (EPSRC GR/M56685/0), ran between 1999-2002. The second, for which I became Principal Investigator, Spatial and temporal object databases (EPSRC GR/M84473/01), ran between 2000-2003. Prior to that I have been a joint recipient of an ESRC grant - An Object-Based Paradigm for an Intelligent Geographical Information System - and have been closely involved with a number of funded research projects into the health of the population of the local region. These latter have included two separate health profiles for the North Staffordshire Health Authority and an investigation into the geographical provision of hospital trauma systems with colleagues in Geography and Postgraduate Medicine. Most recently I have been involved in studies of local dentistry provision with colleagues in Health Planning and Management. I have also jointly edited two thematic atlases - An Atlas of Fiji and A Statistical and Demographic Atlas of Malta and Gozo.

Selected Publications

  • Parkes AA, Waller RI, Knight PG, Stimpson IG, Schofield DI, Mason KT. 2009. A morphological, sedimentological and geophysical investigation of the Woore Moraine, Shropshire, England. PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGISTS ASSOCIATION, vol. 120, 233-244. link> doi>
  • Duckham M, Lingham J, Mason K, Worboys M. 2006. Qualitative reasoning about consistency in geographic information. INFORMATION SCIENCES, vol. 176(6), 601-627. link> doi>
  • MASON K, Griffiths T, Fernandes AA, Paton NW, Jeong SH, Djafri N, Mason KT, Huang B, Worboys M. 2002. TRIPOD: A Spatio-Historical Object Database System. In Mining spatio-temporal information systems. Ladner R, Shaw K, Abdelguerfi M (Eds.). Kluwer Academic Pub.
  • MASON K, Duckham M, Stell JG, Worboys MF. 2001. A formal approach to imperfection in geographic information. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, vol. 25(1), 89-103. doi>
  • MASON K and Drakakis-Smith A. 2001. Out For The Count: A critical examination of the DETR (DTLR) bi-annual count of Gypsies/Travellers in England with special reference to Staffordshire. Radical Statistics, 77-90.

Full Publications List show

Journal Articles

  • Parkes AA, Waller RI, Knight PG, Stimpson IG, Schofield DI, Mason KT. 2009. A morphological, sedimentological and geophysical investigation of the Woore Moraine, Shropshire, England. PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGISTS ASSOCIATION, vol. 120, 233-244. link> doi>
  • Duckham M, Lingham J, Mason K, Worboys M. 2006. Qualitative reasoning about consistency in geographic information. INFORMATION SCIENCES, vol. 176(6), 601-627. link> doi>
  • MASON K, Duckham M, Stell JG, Worboys MF. 2001. A formal approach to imperfection in geographic information. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, vol. 25(1), 89-103. doi>
  • MASON K and Drakakis-Smith A. 2001. Out For The Count: A critical examination of the DETR (DTLR) bi-annual count of Gypsies/Travellers in England with special reference to Staffordshire. Radical Statistics, 77-90.
  • Kivell P and Mason K. 1999. Trauma systems and major injury centres for the 21st century: an option. Health Place, vol. 5(1), 99-110. link> doi>
  • LOCKHART D and MASON K. 1988. MALTA - THE 1985 CENSUS. GEOGRAPHY, vol. 73(320), 261-265. link>

Chapters

  • MASON K, Griffiths T, Fernandes AA, Paton NW, Jeong SH, Djafri N, Mason KT, Huang B, Worboys M. 2002. TRIPOD: A Spatio-Historical Object Database System. In Mining spatio-temporal information systems. Ladner R, Shaw K, Abdelguerfi M (Eds.). Kluwer Academic Pub.
  • MASON K. 2000. Environmental Health and Sustainability. In Sustainability. Redclift MR (Ed.). Psychology Press.

Year 1

  • ESC-10017 Geographical Skills 1 (Module tutor)
  • GEG-10006 Geographical Skills 2 (Module tutor and field course coordinator)
  • ESC-10027 Earth System Science Research Skills (Joint module tutor with Stuart Egan)

Year 2

  • GEG-20009 Geographical Research Training (Module tutor)
  • GEG-20010 Practical Human Geography (Module tutor)
  • ESC-20029 Practical Physical Geography

Year 3

  • ESC-30017 Applied Environmental GIS (Module tutor)
  • GEG-30006/8 Geography Dissertation
  • ESC-30013 ESS Research Project

I am also a regular contributor to the Centre for Health Planning and Management MBA/Diploma (Health, Population and Nutrition).