Dr Calvin Jephcote

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 expertise is in exposure science modelling across populations, integrating spatial and satellite data to inform public-health and policy applications. Skillsets cover data science, network analysis, and Geographical Information Science (GIS).

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.

Dr Jephcote’s research contributes to interdisciplinary research in 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 that works across the College of Life Sciences and College of Science and Engineering. He is actively involved in updating the data linkage protocols and the data enrichment of two major UK biomedical databases covering ~3 million individuals: (1) UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration 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), which won the Noise Abatement Society John Connell Innovation Award in 2024, sometimes referred to as the ‘noise Oscars; . Dr Jephcote is Senior Exposure Scientist for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (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 in Chemical Threats and Hazards (NIHR200901).

Affiliations

• Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability – Lead exposure scientist
• UK Biobank - Outdoor Environment Working Group

• Jephcote C, & Gulliver J. (2025). Development and evaluation of rapid, national-scale outdoor air pollution modelling and exposure assessment: Hybrid Air Dispersion Exposure System (HADES). Environment International, 197
• Jephcote C, et al (2023). Spatial assessment of the attributable burden of disease due to transportation noise in England. Environment International, 178
• Jephcote C, et al (2020). A systematic review and meta-analysis of haematological malignancies in residents living near petrochemical facilities. Environmental Health, 19
• Jephcote C, & Chen H. (2013). Geospatial analysis of naturally occurring boundaries in road-transport emissions and children's respiratory health across a demographically diverse cityscape. Social Science & Medicine, 82
• Jephcote C, & Chen H. (2012). Environmental injustices of children's exposure to air pollution from road-transport within the model British multicultural city of Leicester: 2000-09. Science of the Total Environment, 414

• Course Director: MSc Data Science (Geospatial)
• Course Director: MSc Data Science (Satellite)
• Module Leader: Fundamentals of GIS and GIS in Environmental Health (MSc)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Personal tutor in the School of Geography, providing mentorship to 10-15 students from undergraduate and PGT level courses.
• Annually supervises 5 PGT students through their research-based dissertations, currently supervises 4 doctoral students, and line-manages one post-doctoral fellow.

• Winner, Noise Abatement Society John Connell Innovation Award (2024)
• EPSRC Doctoral Scholarship – University of Leeds
• ESRC Scholarship – University of Birmingham

• PhD Geostatistical Modelling of Health Inequalities – University of Leeds
• MSc Air Pollution Management & Control – University of Birmingham
• BSc Geology and Human Geography – Keele University