Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability
Dr Calvin Jephcote
Lecturer in Exposure Science
Dr Calvin Jephcote is a Lecturer in Exposure Science at the University of Leicester and Course Director for the MSc Data Science (Geospatial) and MSc Data Science (Satellite) programmes. His research spans Geographical Information Science (GIS), data science, network analysis, and exposure science, integrating spatial data with public-health and policy applications.
Dr Jephcote’s research contributes to the Climate and Environmental Futures theme, specialising in Earth Observation Data Science and the application of High-Performance Computing (HPC) for analysing large-scale environmental datasets. He is the lead exposure scientist for the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability, at the University of Leicester. He is actively involved in updating the data linkage protocols and the data enrichment of two major UK biomedical databases: (1) UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration containing participants from 20 cohorts, and (2) The UK Biobank containing >475,000 participants.
He leads the national-scale modelling of environmental exposures, including the development of a 10m resolution GIS-dispersion model for air pollution (Environment International, 2025) and a UK Health Security Agency burden-of-disease toolkit for transportation noise (Environment International, 2023). Dr Jephcote serves as a Senior Exposure Scientist for the NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration with Leicester County Council (NIHR159280), the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre collaboration with the local NHS Trust (NIHR203327), and for the £5.5 million NIHR Health Protection Research Unit recently award to the University of Leicester (NIHR200901).
His interdisciplinary research was recognised by the Noise Abatement Society in 2024, with the John Connell Innovation Award (the equivalent of winning an Oscar for Best Picture). Before academia, he worked at Ricardo Energy & Environment delivering government-funded air-quality and agriculture projects. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and maintains an active publication record in leading journals, including Environment International, Environmental Pollution, and Applied Geography. His experience in consultancy, along with his internationally recognised research, underpins his approach to research-led education. View Dr Jephcote's ORCiD research profile.