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PhD studentship in collaboration with the Ordnance Survey – identifying systematic biases in crowdsourced geographic information

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Deadline 28th July 2017 UCL Department of Geography and the Ordnance Survey are inviting applications for a PhD studentship to explore the internal systematic biases in crowd-sourced geographic information datasets (also known as Volunteered Geographic Information – VGI). The studentship provides an exciting opportunity for a student to work with Ordnance Survey on understanding the … Continue reading PhD studentship in collaboration with the Ordnance Survey – identifying systematic biases in crowdsourced geographic information

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citizen science, crowdsourced geographic information, Crowdsourcing, Extreme Citizen Science, GIS, OpenStreetMap, ordnance survey, PhD, PPGIS, studentship, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

PhD studentship in Extreme Citizen Science – development of data collection tools with non-literate participants

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Applications are invited for one PhD studentship as part of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project named ECSAnVis (Extreme Citizen Science: Analysis & Visualisation) aimed at a developer. Citizen Science is the participation of members of the public in a scientific project, from shaping the question, to collecting the data, analysing it and using … Continue reading PhD studentship in Extreme Citizen Science – development of data collection tools with non-literate participants

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A postdoctoral position and 3 PhD studentships in Extreme Citizen Science

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Following successful funding for the European Union FP7 EveryAware and the EPSRC Extreme Citizen Science activities, the department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at UCL is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position and 3 PhD studentships. Please note that these positions are open to students from any EU country. These positions are in the […]

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citizen science, Environmental information, EPSRC, Extreme Citizen Science, GeoWeb, GIS, GIS Usability, OpenStreetMap, PhD, postdoc, PPGIS, Research projects, studentship, Usability, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

PhD Studentship – How interaction design and mobile mapping influence participation in Citizen Science?

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Geographic and scientific information created by amateur citizens, represents a shift from authoritative data towards information generated by the general public through collaboration.   The increasing emergence of such data has been brought about by the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, and mirrors other information sharing activities such as Wikipedia and Flickr.  Such activity has also […]

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