In this unit, we will look at concrete examples of digital skills being developed through University College London’s (UCL) digital action activities.
Specifically, this unit comprises five presentations that are being run by HEIDI partners in UCL.
Citizen Science and the UCL office for Open Science & Scholarship
Kirsty Wallis is the Head of Research Liaison at UCL. She is responsible for managing a number of teams with research support responsibilities, including RDM and Bibliometrics teams. She is also the internal lead for Open Science advocacy.
The Evaluation Exchange at UCL
Gemma is a Senior Research Fellow, at the Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering at the Bartlett. Gemma has been with the department since 2002, undertaking research and teaching in the field of health, sustainability, participation and evaluation. She leads the Evaluation Exchange, creating a model of engaged- evaluation capacity building for postgraduate students and voluntary sector organisations.
Teaching citizen science- some insights from UCL
Muki is a Professor of Geographic Information Science Department of Geography, University College London. He has contributed to policy formation through reports, discussions and briefings. The examples of some of these contributions are: the talk given at the Wilson Center on environmental information, the contribution to the policy document of the League of European Research Universities on Citizen Science, and the policy briefs that are being developed within the Doing It Together Science project. Muki is also the course convener of the postgraduate module GEOGG152 ‘introduction to citizen science and scientific crowdsourcing’ at UCL.
Digital methods to enhance students’ participatory practice
Anne is responsible for managing the Community Research Initiative for Students (CRIS). Established in November 2018, CRIS seeks to encourage engaged research between the communities within which UCL sits and its academics. This is done through supporting master’s students to start the journey toward collaborating with community partners for their dissertation research projects. One of the central things that CRIS does is offer skills sessions on key areas of collaborative practice: project management, active listening & storytelling, and an introduction to participatory methods.
Bottom-up digital action- addressing digital exclusion barriers in citizen science
Artemis is a Lecturer in Citizen Science in the Department of Geography at UCL and the People Nature Lab at UCL East. She has extensively researched trust issues and public perceptions in various contexts of public engagement and information provision. Her research interests include HCI and User Experience of geospatial technologies, risk communication, philosophical and ethical issues for the ‘appropriate’ and effective use of public engagement technologies. She is the editor of the book ‘Geographic Citizen Science Design: No one left behind” by UCL Press and she was a chair of Working Group 4 of the COST Action in Citizen Science aiming to enhance the role of CS for the Civil Society.