• Question: what the part of the job you use the most

    Asked by cyma536carr94 on 3 Dec 2025.
    • Photo: Hannah Gow

      Hannah Gow answered on 3 Dec 2025:

      The part of the job I use the most is GIS – Geographical Information System. GIS is a technology that is used to create, manage, analyse, and map all types of data.

      GIS connects data to a map connecting where things are with what things are like there. This provides a foundation for mapping and analysis that is used in science and almost every industry. GIS helps users understand patterns, relationships, and geographic context. The benefits include improved communication, efficiency, management, and decision-making.

    • Photo: Vanessa Pilley

      Vanessa Pilley answered on 4 Dec 2025:

      Basic computer skills – without those I couldn’t do the more technical aspects.

    • Photo: Alexander Treliving

      Alexander Treliving answered on 8 Dec 2025:

      Similarly to Hannah and Vanessa, I use GIS and ICT skills the most.

    • Photo: Alan Jones

      Alan Jones answered on 9 Dec 2025:

      getting members of the public ( and school students) to understand the land we live in and the how we interact with that landscape and the damage and the good we can do to that landscape. I like presenting to people about ways we can protect our landscape and make things better after many years of neglect.

    • Photo: George Foden

      George Foden answered on 7 Jan 2026:

      My work is very people-focused, so I’d say social skills are the ones I use the most. When you are trying to get information you need to think about what questions to ask, and how to ask them in a way that won’t upset people (especially when they are talking about disasters that may have destroyed their homes).

      People skills are very important in human geography, because talking to people about their environments and relationships can be emotionally challenging for them, and for you as the researcher.

Comments

  • Photo: Paul P

    Paul P commented on :

    I probably use GIS the most as I not only make maps from my own wildlife surveys I also make maps for the rest of my team too. These can be habitat maps, maps from bat surveys, badger surveys, great crested newt surveys, water vole surveys, bird surveys, invasive species surveys, water bodies maps, predicting where water bodies and flooding may pool in heavy rain, also landscape maps to see if any new developments will imapct other peoples views of the landscape,m I also make planning maps showing where predictions of housing prices are expected to rise and where people will be going to work, and how new developments will be impacted in price by new transport stations, I also make carbon capture maps for nature conservation sites. There are many different types but these are the most recent I hacve made 🙂

  • Photo: Keith

    Keith commented on :

    Spreadsheets because i have to manage my company finances, submit VAT returns to government and analyse local economic and commercial market data