After completing his PhD in 2017, James continued his research at the University of Nottingham’s Geospatial Institute, considering the use of citizen science to study the geomorphology of the Martian Surface. As part of the Horizon Europe-funded iMars project, his research considered aspects of HCI, engagement, user motivation, and data visualisation in order to design citizen science tasks that both result in a satisfying user experience, whilst also ensuring the scientific robustness of the data collected.
After a brief sojourn into the discipline of medical device design at Nottingham Trent University, James joined the environmental NGO Earthwatch in 2020, based in Oxford. As a senior researcher in citizen science, he works primarily as part of the research team on several Horizon Europe projects, involving disciplines including water literacy, soil health, circular economy, ocean and water health, and the EU mission framework. James is primarily the principal scientific investigator for the CROPS project (crops-cs.eu), tasked with supporting the upscaling of citizen science activities to the transnational level to address global objectives.
For more information on the projects that James works on, visit https://earthwatch.org.uk/science/innovation/
