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iBats: Using smart phones and citizen networks to globally monitor bats – Kate Jones

Saturday 18th February Speaker: Kate Jones Topic: Ecological citizen science Website: http://www.ibats.org.uk/ Kate Jones of the Zoological Society for London and … More

biodiversity, Ecological Citizen Science, high quality data, participation, VGI, wildlife, Zoological Society of London

Participatory noise mapping works! An evaluation of participatory sensing as an alternative to standard techniques for environmental monitoring – Ellie D’Hondt

Friday 18th February Speaker: Ellie D’Hondt Theme: Science by citizens Website: http://soft.vub.ac.be/soft/members/elliedhondt The mission of BrusSense, started 2008, is to monitor … More

environmental monitoring, mobile technology, Noise mapping

Being a citizen scientist – Darlene Cavalier

Friday 18th February Speaker: Darlene Cavalier Theme: The citizens of citizen science Website: http://www.sciencecheerleader.com and scistarter.com This session is one … More

motivation, participation, public engagement, Public understanding of science, women in science

Citizen Science in the EU project EveryAware – Vittorio Loreto

Friday 18th February Speaker: Vittorio Loreto Theme: Science by citizens Website: http://www.everyaware.eu EveryAware is an EU project, with five partners … More

behavioural change, environmental monitoring, Everyaware, FP7, mobile data collection, participation, participatory tools, sensing, web-based participatory platform

Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science: Open-Source Development of Tools for Grassroots Science – Sahnnon Dosemagen and Sara Wylie

Friday 17th February Speakers: Sahnnon Dosemagen and Sara Wylie Theme: Science by citizens Website: http://publiclaboratory.org Grassroots science is science and … More

balloon mapping, Civic Science, data collection solutions, DIY, Grassroots Science, open source, Public Laboratory, thermal sensing

Mobile Citizen Science – David Aanensen & Tom Igoe

Friday 17th February Speaker: David Aanensen & Tom Igoe Website EpiCollect is a data collection tool that gives a generic … More

Android, Arduino, art, data collection solutions, DIY, sensing, Tom Igoe, wildlife

Technology to enable non-technical people to record the natural environment: examples from the UK and in the rainforests of Guyana – Jon Parsons

Thursday 16th February Speaker: Jon Parsons Theme: Challenging Citizen Science Nature’s calendar: there was a box of old records and … More

Community based monitoring of chimpanzee/forest habitats using ODK and Android based smartphones and tablets in Tanzania and Uganda – Lilian Pintea

Thursday 16th February Speaker: Lilian Pintea | website Theme: Challenging Citizen Science Dr  Lilian Pintea  is the vice president of … More

data collection solutions, google earth, jane goodall institute, mobile data collection

Citizen, Science, Education and Technology: new synergies to be explored – Francois Taddei

Thursday 16th February Speaker: Francois Taddei Theme: Challenging Citizen Science Background in engineering and biology, keeps on changing and embracing … More

Collective intelligence, education, Empowerment, Grassroots Science, open source, Radical stuff

Quake Catcher in SE Asia – Hsin-Yen Chen

Thursday 16th February Speaker: Hsin-Yen Chen Theme: Citizen cyberscience around the world Website: http://qcn.stanford.edu Taiwan is located on the convergent … More

China, data collection solutions, education

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  • Rethinking Crisis through the Humanities – Reflections from Paris May 9, 2026
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  • Participatory mapping, led by students and experts from across Central Africa February 25, 2026
  • IN.FOR.BIO – our new 6-year One Health project December 18, 2025
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  • Reflections on Urban Gardening Workshop in London’s Chinatown November 16, 2024
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