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[ecrea] PhD Opportunity @ CDU - (Social Media and Spatial Mapping)
Tue Jul 08 11:41:49 GMT 2014
SOCIAL MEDIA PhD PROJECT - EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST SOUGHT
Based @ Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University
PhD project:
The role of social media in remote/rural plant biosecurity surveillance
Aim:
This project aims to test the hypothesis that e-mapping technologies
(such as cloud sourcing and other e-participatory mapping tools) can
provide a tangible way for rural and remote landholders (including
Indigenous landholders and Ranger groups) to provide relevant knowledge
and improve their engagement in biosecurity surveillance.
The project aims to use qualitative and quantitative e-mapping
methodologies (including participatory GIS through case-study analysis)
to examine if new technologies to spatially map local knowledge and
sightings of biosecurity threats enhance local landholder engagement and
contribution to plant biosecurity surveillance in remote regions.
The questions that drive this research are:
· What spatial mapping that rely on social media tools would be
appropriate to support landholders (including Indigenous landholders and
ranger groups) in biosecurity surveillance and decision making in
remote/rural Australia? (What tools do they already use, how do they use
these tools, what kind of information would be useful for their PBS
surveillance activities, and what would be the appropriate way to
evaluate use and success of such tools?)
· Drawing on existing biosecurity surveillance technologies
developed in Australia and other parts of the world what are the key
best-practice decision-support protocols that should underpin
biosecurity surveillance e-mapping efforts to ensure landholder
motivations, values and capacities are reflected in existing and new
e-mapping technologies, support and applications?
Supervising institution:
Charles Darwin University
More information:
Professor Ruth Wallace at (r.wallace /at/ pbcrc.com.au)
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