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PhD Research Student

I've joined the KMi on October, 2012 as a PhD Research Student.

During three years time, I will work on one of the The Wolfson OpenScience Laboratory projects with Dr. Simon Buckingham Shum, Dr. Anna De Liddo and Dr. Rebecca Ferguson.

The OpenScience Laboratory is funded through a £1m grant awarded by the Wolfson Foundation and therefore my studies are funded by both Wolfson Foundation and The Open University (OU).

My PhD broadly aims to scaffold citizen science with Learning Analytics (LA). Unlike common thoughts on citizen scientists who are mostly seen as data gatherers only, this project aims to find out how we can develop citizen scientists’ everyday language and ways of thinking and writing, into scientific discourse.

Within this area, my work will build on existing OU research platforms for collective sensemaking and the Xerox Incremental Parser (XIP) whose rhetorical analysis is capable of identifying the forms of writing that are ‘signatures’ of scientific discourse. In order to answer the core question, discourse analytics will be integrated into the KMI tools, so that the analytics can be rendered back to citizens which will be systematically evaluated.



 

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