[ecrea] PhD Opportunity @ CDU - (Social Media and Spatial Mapping)

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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