Katy Appleton is a Research Officer in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK). Since her PhD examining the use of computerised landscape imagery, based on GIS data, in environmental management applications, she has been involved in projects examining land use change, multifunctional landscapes, and using visualisation to present future landscape scenarios to stakeholders and other audiences. She oversees the SSEVREL virtual reality facility and supervises doctoral students with interests in landscape-related participation and communication.