Citizen data science for public good

博士的研究着眼于如何利用公民数据科学来促进公共利益。这是一个元研究项目，涉及社会科学领域的大规模合作。例如，看看FixMyStreet、Humanitarian OpenStreetMap等服务和其他众包数据源，以及它们在开放性和准确性等标准方面与更传统的数据的比较。我也对评估参与这些项目的参与者的利益感兴趣，特别是学校的公民科学项目对扩大科学参与的有用性。我还研究了公民科学如何成为一门更开放的科学，通过研究诸如分布式数据收集的数据许可、更多地包括低文化水平群体的可视化文档以及依赖智能手机应用程序的公民科学项目的开源软件等问题。

The PhD research looks at the ways in which citizen data science can be used to advance the public good. It is a meta-research project which involves looking at mass collaborations in social sciences. For example looking at services like FixMyStreet, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, and other crowd sourced data sources and how they compare to more conventional data in terms of criteria such as openness and accuracy. I also am interested in evaluating the benefits for participants in these projects, in particular the usefulness of citizen science projects in schools for widening participation in science. I also look at how citizen science can become a more open science by looking at issues such as data licensing for distributed data collection, visual documentation for greater inclusion of low literacy groups, and open sourced software for citizen science projects that rely upon smartphone applications.