Louise Francis
Mapping for Change, University College London, Imperial College London
0000-0002-8700-6055
About
Louise Francis is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of the social enterprise Mapping for Change, which is part-owned by University College London. She has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research, and is both an alumni of the Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) research group and ongoing collaborator.
Louise discovered the power of maps through her early research in evolutionary genetics and the environment. She moved on from there to combine people, places, the environment and maps in her work and research, with a particular focus on justice, sustainability, and community development.
Her research interests relate to the contributions participatory processes, mapping, volunteered geographic information, and citizen science make to effect change across multiple levels (grassroots to policy level, urban design to environmental quality).
Her extensive experience includes working with a diverse range of grass-roots organisations, local authorities, and academics in the UK, Caribbean, mainland Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa and has worked in trans-disciplinary research with Materials and Chemical Engineers, Urban designers, Physicists, Software Engineers, Anthropologists and Pedagogist – among others.
Employment
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University College London Researcher2011 - 2020
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Mapping for Change Managing Director2008 - Present
Education
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Imperial College London MSc Advanced Methods in Taxonomy, Biodiversity & Evolution2006 - 2007
Projects & Funding
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Publications (16)
- European cities’ barriers to carbon neutrality: identifying vicious circles hampering effective implementation Save
- Spatial justice in participatory planning: an integrated framework and lessons from practice Save
- Strategic Roadmap for governance in odour pollution Save
- DIY guidelines for citizen science projects in odour-conflicted communities Save
- Large-scale citizen science protocol provides high-resolution nitrogen dioxide values while enhancing community knowledge and collective action Save
- OpenStreetMap data quality enrichment through awareness raising and collective action tools—experiences from a European project Save
- Community engagement around poor air quality in London: Citizen inquiry in a citizen science “mapping for change” project Save
- Participatory GIS and community-based citizen science for environmental justice action Save
- Street Mobility Project Toolkit Save
- Participatory Sensing: Recruiting Bipedal Platforms or Building Issue-centred Projects? Save