She/Her. PhD Researcher and Research Associate @OfficialUoM. Research interests in artifical intelligence, VGI & humanitarian applications🌍🛰️ @GeographyUoM
Joined September 2019
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My first article is published 🥳🥳 Looking @ ways to improve #humanitarianmapping on #OpenStreetMap "Centaur VGI: An Evaluation of Engagement, Speed, and Quality in Hybrid Humanitarian Mapping" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… @jonnyhuck @AngelaHarris78 @theAAG #VGI #OSM #maps #ML
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🚨 Job Alert
Are you interested in urban land use and green infrastructure planning? The @MeasureUoM project is recruiting!
Full details: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/Jo…. Application Deadline 02 June.
For more information on the project, visit nercmeasureproject.co.uk/
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Happening on Tuesday! Still some tickets left. Join @TimnaPix @kateamandabooth @KLWatkinson @AmiCrowther and @HannahCharles_1 for an evening of humanitarian mapping and pints 🌍🍻
Join Community Mapping @ Pint of Science on Tuesday 23rd May! 🧪🍻
Head to Track Brewery Taproom for a night of mapping and pints 🌍🍻You can hear about and get involved with the work of Community Mapping, you don’t want to miss out! #Pint23
More details and tickets below 👇
Fancy joining myself, @TimnaPix and others for a night of mapping and pints?
Community Mapping X Pint of Science. Track Brewery Taproom. Tuesday 23rd May, 7:30pm-9:30pm 🌍🍻🧪
More info and tickets available at: pintofscience.co.uk/event/co…
We can't wait to see you there! 🌍🍻🗺️
The fiercest netball player you ever did see @Wirral_JohnM @GeographyUOM @MUGS_1892 #netball #staffvstudents #charitymatch #MUGS #UoM #MUGSnetball
Recovering on the sofa after an excellent time @GISRUK 2023. Watching great talks, Cèilidh-ing & presenting the work I’ve been doing, developing an agent-based model to model Lyme disease risk in urban green spaces for @MeasureUoM. Thanks to my personal paparazzi @TimnaPix – at Manchester, England
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ALT Woman presenting to an audience and looking at a screen. The screen has a chart showing density of infected nymphs.
ALT Woman sat on a low wall eating something out of a paper bag. Next to her is a rucksack. I’m the background are some pink blossom trees and blue sky.
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happy 210 year anniversary to jane austen's dearly loved 'pride and prejudice'. first published in january 28, 1813. 🤍
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Wonderful evening and two fantastic thought provoking inaugural lectures this evening from SEED’s @DrTerryHanley ‘Where technology and therapy meet: some thoughts about the past, present and future’ & @Sarah_M_Hall ‘Living Austerity’ 🙌 – at Manchester, England
I for one, am outraged. How about we remove bottom tier Mars and Twix #bountygate #BountysAreTheBest – at Manchester, England
Bounty bars to be removed from Celebrations tubs in trial due to 'public demand' itv.com/news/2022-11-03/boun…
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The first paper based upon interviews from my PhD research is out!!
It looks at the tension between shorter-term crisis response and the achievement of longer-term policy ambitions, drawing upon a case study of Covid-19 and Greater Manchester’s decarbonisation ambitions
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Wondering if the world of twitter can help me with time-series creation of an area of satellite imagery and not just a point? Papers are scrambling my brain with complex methodologies ... a simple starting point is needed #timeseries #phdchat #remotesensing #vegetationanalysis
We’re all set up #communityfestUoM 🤩 come and do some mapping, we’re in a room off the main area so come and find us. We have cool blow up globes!!!! #mapping #CommunityEngagement #communitymapping @TimnaPix @kateamandabooth – at Manchester, England
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#communityfestUoM starts 11am TODAY!
Whether you’re young or old, interested in science or art, or just looking for a free family day out - join us for a fun-filled day of activities🧪🎨⚽️🍦
Come and visit us on @officialuom campus!
Full programme:
socialresponsibility.manches……
Myself, @TimnaPix and @kateamandabooth will be representing Community Mapping at #communityfestUoM this Saturday. Registration is free, so come along and do some mapping to help produce free maps of North Uganda! #mapping #mapuganda #communitymapping – at Manchester, England
Our Community Festival is back in-person on Saturday 25 June!
This free event is jam-packed with fun activities for all the family, including interactive demonstrations, experiments, performances and behind the scenes tours.
#communityfestUoM
More info:
manchester.ac.uk/communityfe…
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Never forget that Jacob Rees-Mogg actually accused the 72 people who died at Grenfell of 'lacking common sense'
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Top day walking round Padley Gorge, plotting all sorts of exciting things on our annual away day... exciting times ahead! Thanks to @HeatherJMiles for organising, and @jonnyhuck, @JoTayl0r0 and @DrMattDennis for giving us plenty to discuss 🙌
The weird joy of being a PhD student/RA when you are somewhere random and you connect to eduroam Wi-Fi 😅 #phdlife #AcademicTwitter #rijksmuseum
