Research Information Science (RIS)Conducting research involving citizen participants are sometimes restricted and confusing. Collected data samples has shown areas of miscommunication, restrictions, and tools that are seen by some as improper. In an upcoming presentation this month in April, the speaker will discuss areas of concern when recruiting participants, and how to improve methods of collecting data in citizen science. We’re really looking forward to learning some great ideas on this one at PloCC!
It’s a new day and a new month. We’re hoping that you have settled into March 2023 comfortably even though the floods in Auckland in January, followed by Cyclone Gabrielle in February gave us a terrible start for 2023. Wishing you all a better day!
We’re excited to share a new survey for the Books for Caterpillars project. We’re looking for testers and evaluators to test an upcoming ecommerce website for user interface design and user experience analysis and research. If you would like to participate please email us for the survey passwords. The survey link can be found by clicking on Survey Four.
It’s our last post for the year of 2022! Before we sign off, we reflect on the past 12 months, beginning with our first post in 2021! What an exciting year we had – being invited to many seminars overseas in Wales and in the Netherlands, and events with the Royal Society Te Apārangi! Whew!
Our research on favourite places continues with eager participants who are responding to our posts and are completing our surveys in New Zealand and in Wales. We had published our findings in Europe for our first survey with links to our short paper. We hope to continue researching favourite places in Wales and New Zealand with a clear aim of discovering new findings.
As we close for the year, we wish you all a very safe year end, a historic year end of 2022 – the year New Zealand went off the COVID-19 traffic lights framework with hopes of starting our lives anew again. Enjoy your holidays with your loved ones and have much-needed rest, rejuvenation and reinvigoration that could help you next year. We hope to resume our surveys, newsletters and continuous research in 2023. May you all enjoy the longer summer days and weekends. Take care! And we’ll see you again in 2023!
Exciting research showing the difference between non-equilibrium thinking and our perceived views of an ideal landscape’s equilibrium state can be challenged by how we manage our natural resources through wind energy installation or mapping flood-risk and coastal areas responsibly and with preparedness. We wish you all the very best in your continued research Professor Sherren!
In this seminar, the availability of water and power generation are necessary commodities for human survival. This seminar helps us understand the importance of hydropower and its ability to generate power while tackling the complexities of water shortages during a period of climate change. An informative seminar deserving of praise!
The presentation went well! Thank you to those who attended online! We hope you enjoyed listening to reasons why favourite places are special both in Wales and in New Zealand. Here’s the link again if you are interested in completing the online survey.
Its our time to present our research on favourite places at the PloCC centre in Wales! In our discussion, we will explain why people have favourite places and why it is important to protect and preserve favourite places! This upcoming virtual presentation on Wednesday 13th of July 2022 will be exciting for all those in attendance. We encourage you to participate at the seminar! See you there!
Time to check how well we’re doing when it comes to nature, the arts and wellbeing! This upcoming PloCC seminar on Wednesday 8th of June 2022 at 11:10 am should get our thinking caps on, finding ways to be more “eco-capable”! Should be a good seminar! See you there!
This fantastic presentation on Wednesday 11th of May at 11:00 am showed the collaborative art work between schools and researchers – an effort to educate children about a better, cleaner, and safer environment! While acknowledging the rich diversity amongst our communities, all of us can make our environment green and clean. It was great seeing the artwork prepared by children too!
The urbanisation of certain races in the Americas is a reflection of human movement from rural to urban areas. This is common amongst tribal peoples who search for better living opportunities. Their identities are often met with obvious racial identifications, raising questions of whether places are affected by these foreign newcomers. Does place change the cultural identities of newcomers? Or, do the new cultural backgrounds of foreigners change place, changing both its landscape and its original cultural expression? In an upcoming April 2022 platial seminar, we will consider how the urbanisation of people can affect the platial context of their new urban surroundings. Should be exciting!
