I am incredibly excited to be part of this groundbreaking initiative to tackle one of the most enduring and troubling issues in global affairs: slavery. As the lead of the Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab, I’m proud to contribute to work that not only deepens our understanding of slavery but also supports the development of tools to … Continue reading New Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War
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Digital Placemaking & Soft City Sensing 🌆📊
Very happy to be part of this amazing research network led by Prof Anders Koed Madsen of Aalborg University (Denmark)! Original announcement from Anders (source): I am really grateful that Independent Research Fund Denmark have awarded me a grant to lead an explorative explorative academic network on: ⚡ 'Digital Placemaking & Soft City Sensing' ⚡The network will … Continue reading Digital Placemaking & Soft City Sensing 🌆📊
New AHRC project on museum analytics
Museum Closure in the UK (2000-2025) We are pleased to announce that the Mapping Museums Lab has been awarded £1M Arts and Humanities Research Council funding for their project ‘Museum Closure in the UK 2000-2025’. Museums are defined as permanent institutions and are intended to preserve collections for posterity. Yet their closure is common. Our previous … Continue reading New AHRC project on museum analytics
Research project: Museums in the Pandemic
The Mapping Museums research team has been awarded £190,000 to investigate and analyse risk, closure, and resilience in the UK museum sector during the pandemic. Museums in the pandemic The project combines qualitative and quantitative research, and it has three inter-related strands. Developing new ways to collect data on museums. We will use web-scraping techniques, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis to digitally track trends as they … Continue reading Research project: Museums in the Pandemic
Research project: Localizing Content Governance
This project is led by Dr Scott Rodgers (PI) in collaboration with Dr Susan Moore (Co-I) and Dr Andrea Ballatore (Co-I), funded by a grant from Facebook Research (USD 70,000). Localizing Content Governance in Place-named Facebook Groups (2020/21) is a systematic study into how Administrators and Moderators govern contributions in Facebook Groups relating to named … Continue reading Research project: Localizing Content Governance
Research project: Searching for Unique Places
PI: Andrea Ballatore, Birkbeck, University of London, funded by Ordnance Survey (£40,000), 2019-20 Summary. This project will develop a framework for the search and recommendation of places. Unlike entities with clear boundaries, places such as neighbourhoods and towns are configurations of geo-located objects with fuzzy and arbitrary borders. Existing similarity search approaches have been optimised … Continue reading Research project: Searching for Unique Places
Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab 