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Civic Innovation In Community: Safety – Policing and Trust with Young People
Not a day goes by without another tragic incident: Knife crime has become one of the most pressing issues that … More
Why China needs citizen science (CS)?
Citizen science originated in North America and Europe and now seems to have become increasing popularly across other continents, including … More
Life Lessons: Exploring Participatory Design for Environmental Monitoring Citizen Science Projects with Third Age Users (London-experiment 2)
Between April and June of this year, Sanayah Malik (MSc in Digital Anthropology at UCL) and Carol Iglesias (currently completing … More
EMBO reports cover ExCiteS work
A new report from Adam Gristwood in the journal EMBO reports is covering the work of ExCiteS as part of … More
‘Understanding Interaction Design Challenges in Mobile Extreme Citizen Science’
Extreme Citizen Science Initiatives often face severe challenges as pre-designed technological solutions prove to be non-transferable to peculiar environments of … More
Running London-based experiments for Intelligent Maps – The difficulties of participant recruitment
Extreme Citizen Science is a philosophy of situated bottom-up initiatives and local practices which take into account local needs, practices … More
Citizen Science day at the Open University: Learning about the nQuire platform
Early on the morning of Tuesday 2nd July, Alice and Alex A at UCL ExCiteS took the train to Milton … More
Citizen science and botanic knowledge among herders and farmers in Kenya
In collaboration with Dr Matthew Davies and Professor Jacqueline McGlade of the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) at University College … More
Sapelli Collector in Zambia: Orchid Tubers, Community Forests, and Flooding in Lusaka
This is a guest post by horticulturalist and botanist, Nicholas Wightman In February of this year, ExCiteS team member, Megan … More
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