Category: Interdisciplinary research

Changing departments – the pros and cons of being away from home discipline(s)

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Last weekend, I updated my Linkedin page to indicate that I’ve now completed the move between departments at UCL – from the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering to the Department of Geography. It’s not just me – the Extreme Citizen Science group will be now based at the Department of Geography. With this move, … Continue reading Changing departments – the pros and cons of being away from home discipline(s)

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Academia and business, academic career, citizen science, engineering, Extreme Citizen Science, Geography, GIS, GIS Usability, Interdisciplinary research, VGI

UCL Synergies podcast – Congo Citizen Science

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The “UCL Synergies podcasts” is series of interviews with researchers who are working on a shared problem from two disciplinary perspective. It is part of the activities to demonstrate how UCL addresses the grand challenges. The series itself is an excellent  demonstration of the issues that come up in interdisciplinary research and you can find … Continue reading UCL Synergies podcast – Congo Citizen Science

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anthropology, citizen science, Environmental information, Extreme Citizen Science, Human–computer interaction, Interdisciplinary research, UCL, VGI

Has GIScience Lost its Interdisciplinary Mojo?

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The GIScience conference is being held every two years since 2000, and it is one of the main conferences in the field of Geographic Information Science (GIScience). It is a special honour to be invited to give a keynote talk, and so I was (naturally) very pleased to get an invitation to deliver such a talk … Continue reading Has GIScience Lost its Interdisciplinary Mojo?

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#GISci16, citizen science, Conference, Crossdisciplinary research, GIS, GIScience, GIScience 2016, Interdisciplinary research, OpenStreetMap, Research projects, Transdisciplinary research, VGI