UCL Extreme Citizen Science

22/03/2025

https://theconversation.com/cameroons-baka-people-say-they-are-part-of-the-forest-thats-why-they-look-after-it-250289

The Baka people of Bemba village, Cameroon, show how sharing is a viable forest management and conservation technique.

22/05/2023

One of our projects is coming to an end - come along and help celebrate it in the Final Event next week. You can take part with a 5-minute talk of your own!

Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

11/05/2023

We hope you enjoy the HEIDI Project's short film about UCL's support services for Digital Action! Do you want to run citizen science, makeathons or hackathons? You might well find something at UCL to help you!

By Hannah Gibbs. As the HEIDI project comes to an end, we at UCL and our partners Citizens in Power in Cyprus, Université Paris Cité in France, Web2Learn in Greece and L-Università ta’Malta i…

16/01/2023

Thank you for the kind mention, UCL Department of Geography. This is great news!

Congratulations to Professor Muki Haklay and Marcos Moreu for receiving a UCL Grand Challenges grant for their Crowdmapping for Food Security in Ethiopia project.

Find out more at the UCL Extreme Citizen Science blog: bit.ly/ucl-muki

13/01/2023

At the intersection of education, culture, science, as well as social and environmental impact, the 4th edition of the Festival will engage in new learning

15/12/2022

Our HEIDI colleagues are excited about these two events tonight - we look forward to seeing some of you there!

16/11/2022

This upcoming panel discussion will feature two of the UCL ExCiteS team, Muki and Marcos, as well as being run by Artemis. We'd love to see you there.

We invite researchers, students and anyone with an interest in citizen science, hackathons or makeathons to join our webinar on Higher Education Institution Ethics for Digital Action during Covid-19.

We will discuss ethics for Digital Action, and through the lenses of various different Digital Action projects, we will analyse how the pandemic and its restrictions influenced project design and implementation, what the ethical implications were and what we have learned and how we will apply this in the future.

Scan the QR code on the flyer or register here on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hei-ethics-for-digital-action-during-covid-19-tickets-467606532727 for Tuesday 29th November, 4:30pm GMT. Free and no prior knowledge or experience required! Please feel free to share among your networks and we hope to see you there.

18/10/2022

In November, the HEIDI Project are holding three to map of HEI staff, voluntary and community groups. Do you participate in activities such as citizen science, hackathons, datathons, makeathons - or something like this? Or, would you like to, but have not found it easy to do?

The HEIDI Project is in its final stages and is now mapping the requirements for bottom-up digital action. We'd love to hear your stories about it - even if your story is that you have not been able to take part, because that tells us more about the barriers! Read more here: https://heidiproject.eu/io5-he-guide-to-address-needs-and-requirements-for-embracing-bottom-up-digital-action-in-he-practices/

Join us at UCL to discuss the challenges, barriers, requirements and the hoped-for impacts of digital action at one of the following:

HEI Staff Roundtable, Wed 9th November, 4pm GMT (online only): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roundtable-hei-staff-requirements-and-challenges-for-digital-action-tickets-435760751137

Community Groups Roundtable, Tuesday 15th Nov, 5:30pm GMT: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-groups-roundtable-understanding-needs-for-digital-action-tickets-435623901817

Voluntary Organisations Roundtable, Thursday 17th Nov, 5:30pm GMT: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voluntary-organisations-roundtable-understanding-needs-for-digital-action-tickets-435670852247

Intellectual Output 5 (IO5) will explore how community groups and citizens currently shape Digital Action (DA) projects, in collaboration with Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), to address societal needs, as well as the needs and requirements of different stakeholders (i.e. communities, academic....

04/07/2022

On Monday, a week today, we'll be running another webinar. This will be a very informal, non-academic one, aimed at people who'd like to try out a citizen science app to do some wildlife identification. For example, keen gardeners or conservation volunteers, or for parents with young children who'd like to get outside over the summer. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-citizen-science-wildlife-spotting-tickets-372796031967

This webinar is being run as part of the HEIDI Project. It will be at 6:30pm BST on Monday 11th July on Zoom.

20/06/2022

This Wednesday, 15:30-17:00 BST (or 16:30-18:00 CEST): "Grassroots Data Wranglers"

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/grassroots-data-wranglers-tickets-348781202967

How is data collected? Often a top-down process, we will be hearing from people from civil and independent organisations who are doing it in a different way. They may be challenging established narratives, filling gaps, searching where there are inaccessibilities. This event is open to anyone interested - especially NGOs and journalists - and ExCiteS would love to see you there.

17/06/2022

One more event from our friends HEIDI! The ExCiteS Director, Muki Haklay, will be one of the speakers.