One week Skills School on creating Quantum GIS Online Maps and ArcGIS Story Maps to disseminate your research with Hannah Pethen.
Start time: 09:30 (UK)
Date and time: 9 – 13 February 2026
Location: London, UK
Price: EES Member: £275, Non-Member: £300, EES Student: £250

Have you wondered how to disseminate geographic data online? This full week, in-person Skills School will teach you how to create and prepare GIS data for an online map, embed that map in a website and develop it into an ArcGIS Story Map.

We will be looking at Amelia Edwards’ 1873 journey to Egypt, immortalised in her memoir A Thousand Miles Up the Nile (<https://www.ees.ac.uk/resource/a-thousand-miles-up-the-nile-book.html>), which ultimately led to the creation of the Egypt Exploration Society. Working collaboratively in pairs and as a group to research and create GIS-content, we will cover locations across England, Europe and of course, Egypt itself. You will learn how to design GIS data and projects with suitable attributes and properties for your project, translate data from physical books and online archival sources into GIS data, edit, enhance and merge GIS data, export an online web-map using the QGIS2 Web plugin, host and embed your map as both an online map and an ArcGIS Story Map. You will have learned about the possibilities of ArcGIS Story Maps and engaged in editing your section of the Amelia Edwards story map, which will be published on the Egypt Exploration Society website with full credit to all the contributors.

At the end of the week, you will have an online web-map demonstrating your capabilities in GIS and web-data creation. This map can be embedded in your personal website or linked on your university or institution webpage. You will have
contributed to a new ArcGIS Story Map following Amelia Edwards 1873 and be credited as one of the authors when the Story Map is published on the EES website. These tangible and easily accessible products offer a useful means of demonstrating your GIS skills to future institutions, funders or employers in a format they can both see and interact with online. You’ll also learn essential skills for the online dissemination of GIS data, an increasingly important aspect of public archaeology and Egyptology.

This course is for those who have had some interaction with GIS in the past, perhaps through the EES Introduction to GIS for Egyptologists, an EES Skills School or similar. It assumes you have had some experience of using a GIS and some understanding of its basic principles, but does not assume much experience or programming skills.

Book your place now:
<https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/beyond-beginners-gis-beyond-the-desktop.html>

Venues

The Egypt Exploration Society
3 Doughty Mews
London
WC1N 2PG
United Kingdom

Tutor

Hannah Pethen is a specialist in GIS, archaeological survey and satellite remote sensing, with a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Liverpool and over 20 years’ experience in British commercial archaeology, Egyptian archaeology, archival and collections research. Hannah has recently been working on multiple projects involving site and tomb location in GIS, including the Circulating Artefacts project, Asyut Region Project, British Museum Egyptian Place Authority and the EES’ Delta Survey Online, where she converted the results of the Delta Survey into an
interactive online web-map.

Schedule
Note that the times shown below are based on UK time (GMT), as this is an in-person only event.

Monday 9 February 2026, 09:30-16:30 (UK time)
Day One – Recap of Quantum GIS, shapefile creation and editing
Tuesday 10 February 2026, 09:30-16:30 (UK time)
Day Two – Research, content design and revising the QGIS map
Wednesday 11 February 2026, 09:30-16:30 (UK time)
Day Three – Merging and joining QGIS data
Thursday 12 February 2026, 09:30-16:30 (UK time)
Day Four – Going Online
Friday 13 February 2026, 09:30-16:30 (UK time)
Day Five – Story Maps

Find out more on our website:
<https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/beyond-beginners-gis-beyond-the-desktop.html>

Tickets

EES Student: £250
EES Member: £275
Non-Member: £300

Book your place now:
<https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/beyond-beginners-gis-beyond-the-desktop.html>