Faragher graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, and Master of Science degrees in experimental and theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge in 2004.
In 2008 he was awarded a PhD, supervised by Peter Duffett Smith with a thesis on the effects of multipath interference on radio positioning systems.
[2] On completing his PhD, Faragher worked for BAE Systems where he was a technical lead for a number of navigation, tracking, and sensor fusion programmes, building on expertise in GPS-denied navigation using novel methods including opportunistic radio signals.
[3] From 2013 to 2015 he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in England, working in the Digital Technology Group on infrastructure-free smartphone positioning.
[10] In 2024 Faragher was a lead author on the OpsGroup report into the impact of GPS Spoofing on the civil aviation sector[11] and also chaired the Best Practices for Resilient PNT committee at the Royal Institute of Navigation.