The role of learning in citizen science and the impact of participation inequality

From August to December I was hosted at the Centre for Research and interdisciplinarity in Paris. This short term research fellowship had a focus on learning and citizen science. The recording below is from a seminar in November 2019, titled "the role of learning in citizen science and the impact of participation inequality". The talk …

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Would you call this a citizen science activity?

This is an invitation to complete a survey that is available at  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7XN5MQG This survey will present you stories about different forms of public participation in research. Different activities within this area of public participation in research are now called “citizen science” and we would like to hear what your opinion is about each activity. …

EU-Citizen.Science project kick-off meeting

The EU-Citizen.Science is a new project that is part of a family of citizen science projects that are funded through the Science with and for Society (SwafS) stream of the Horizon 2020 programme. The project started in January and will run for 3 years. It is coordinated by the Natural History Museum of Berlin (the …

Securing funding and balancing efforts: a tale of 21 research applications

The last 3 months were a gradual sigh of relief for the Extreme Citizen Science group (ExCites), Mapping for Change (MfC), and for me. As the UCL engineering website announced, the ExCiteS group, which I co-direct, secured funding through 3 research grants from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme (H2020), with enough funding to continue …

Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street

The book 'Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street' is launched today. It's open access and free for you to download and read. The book is edited by Laura Vaughan, who led two research projects in which I was involved as co-investigator. First, 'Towards Successful Suburban Town Centres' (2006-2009) and then 'Adaptable …

Extreme Citizen Science – ExCiteS

Challenging Engineering is an EPSRC programme aimed at supporting individuals in building  a research group and to 'establish themselves as the future leaders of research'. As can be imagined, this is a both prestigious and well-funded programme - it provides enough resources to establish a group, recruit postdoctoral and PhD researchers, visit external laboratories and …

EveryAware – Enhanced environmental awareness through social information technologies

EveryAware is a three-year research project, funded under the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project's focus is on the development of Citizen Science techniques to allow people to find out about their local environmental conditions, and then to see if the provision of this information leads to behaviour change. The abstract of the …