Open data, open access, open development?
I have been a big proponent of ‘openness’ in research for pretty much the entirety of the my academic career. I’ve written about open data previously, and I imagine I’ll […]
Remote sensing for policy
Remote sensing: The science (and sometimes art) of obtaining information about an object without being in contact with it. Remote sensing has a history of being used to develop and […]
Geographer goes to London
The idea for the post came from the realisation that it has been nearly two years since I worked at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), yet the […]
Opening up geospatial data
Geospatial data has become embedded in most people’s lives. Whether we’re using Google Maps to search for the nearest bank or post office or a sat nav to find our […]
MOOCs and capacity development
Despite my best intentions, I spend a disproportionate amount of my free time learning. It’s unfortunate because that’s also my day job, so it’s a strange way to unwind. I […]
Preparing for overseas fieldwork – what your supervisor forgot to mention
I have been fortunate enough to have spent a considerable portion of my PhD in the field, sometimes quite literally in a field. Over the first 3 years of my PhD […]
Geography on television
We can all identify a Horizon programme on science. Within the first minute, we could all have a decent stab at whether it was physics or chemistry or biology or […]
Specialisation, or how to be Mycroft Holmes
Job hunting is hard. Extraordinarily hard. Infuriating at times and enough to make you question everything you thought you knew about what particular life choices had led you to this […]
Bespoke Forestry
I have spent the last 4 years struggling with pesky satellites and the forests they are trying to measure. There are a number of approaches to mapping forests, with the […]
Rambling Geographer 