Extreme Citizen Science Initiatives often face severe challenges as pre-designed technological solutions prove to be non-transferable to peculiar environments of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Participating Counterpublics
User Experience Design for Online Communities of Practice PhD Research Abstract Technology mediated Public Participation initiatives are strongly based on…
Electric Guitars and Environmental Justice
It’s not an easy ride from Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, to Gbiné. A six hour bus to Bertoua, followed…
CITIZEN SCIENCE: BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER
On November 5 2015, a dam situated in the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil) collapsed, spreading millions of litres of…
Vacancy – Research Technician
Applications are invited for the position of Researcher Technician l leader within an interdisciplinary research team at UCL to play…
PhD studentship in extreme citizen science – Human Computer Interaction approaches to design and evaluation of data collection tools
We are looking for a candidate to join a team of geographers, ecologists, computer scientists, anthropologists and designers. The project includes the design, prototype and testing of HCI software alongside citizen scientists in Europe and Africa.
