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Notes from the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) visit to Slovenia – 10 Oct 2022

Posted on Monday 10 October 2022 by mukih

The ministry of education, science and sport hosted the meeting, in Ljubljana on the 10-11 October. For the ministry, the MLE is a very helpful exercise for Slovenia, in working with experts, the commission, and the member states. Citizen science cannot be measured in the same way as ordinary science – no H-index, citations, etc. … Continue reading Notes from the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) visit to Slovenia – 10 Oct 2022 →

citizen science, europe, European Commission, Horizon Europe, MLE, Mutual Learning Exercise

Mapping Nitrogen Dioxide Across Europe

Posted on Monday 24 August 2020 by James Cheshire

Here is a short video I did for the Royal Geographical Society to show how new satellite data can reveal the daily changes to nitrogen dioxide (and other pollutants) in the atmosphere in unprecedented detail. For a longer version of the video and furt…

europe, Featured Maps, nitrogen dioxide, Resources, Royal Geographical Society, sentinel, Video, visualisation

Fracturing Britain: the end of the United Kingdom?

Posted on Monday 27 June 2016 by

Last year’s 2015 general election revealed a Britain that was increasingly fractured between nations, between the north and south of England, and between more prosperous metropolitan and deprived areas. But GE2015 has now proved to be only a staging post in the UK’s splintering. The momentous vote for Brexit in last week’s EU referendum threatens economic and political … Continue reading Fracturing Britain: the end of the United Kingdom? →

europe, inequality, political geography, referendum, United Kingdom

Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science and INSPIRE

Posted on Wednesday 18 June 2014 by Muki Haklay

The INSPIRE 2014 conference marks the middle of the implementation process of the INSPIRE directive (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community). The directive is aimed at establishing a pan-European Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), and that mean lots of blueprints, pipes, machine rooms and protocols for enabling the sharing of geographic information. In GIS jargon, blueprints translate to […]

citizen science, Conference, Crowdsourcing, europe, European Community, GIS, INSPIRE, INSPIRE 2014, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

My Academic Research: What’s in a Name?

Posted on Friday 16 December 2011 by James Cheshire

I have spent the last few years investigating the geography of family names (also called surnames). I work with the team who assembled the UCL Department of Geography Worldnames Database that contains the names and geographic locations of over 300 million people in nearly 30 countries (a few of these are yet to be added to the website). My research has …

Clustering, europe, geodemographics, Great Britain, lasker, nei, population genetics, Resources, Surname, surnames, UCL, worldnames