James Williams

Research Fellow in Slavery and War (Geospatial and Data Science) 

Email: James.Williams4@nottingham.ac.uk

James Williams is a Rights Lab Research Fellow in Slavery and War with the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, a collaborative centre between the University of Nottingham and King's College London. His focus in the Leverhulme Centre is on geospatial and data science: the use of geospatial and data-driven methods to conduct research into tools and insights that support real-world decision-making through computing technologies and data visualisation. This includes a focus on GeoAI and how large language models can be used to extract data from complex multimodal data sources.

His background is in Platial Information Systems, Computer Science, and applied GIScience, with experience spanning personalised navigation, place-aware analysis, and interactive spatial interfaces, including collaborations with Ordnance Survey. James takes a multidisciplinary, user-centred approach that draws on human–computer interaction, data engineering, and data science to design robust, ethical, and interpretable geospatial systems.