Dr Sarah West
Senior Research Associate at SEI-York
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Profile
Biography
Sarah is a Senior Research Associate at SEI York, and has worked here since 2008. Sarah's research focus is citizen science. Key projects include 1) OPAL which involves engaging communities with their local environment through a variety of activities including citizen science surveys, participatory mapping, nature days, events and training workshops, 2) the Moors for the Future Community Science Project which is exploring species' responses to climate change in the Peak District National Park and 3) the Citizen Science and Air Pollution study exploring particulate pollution in informal settlements in Nairobi .
Sarah is interested in the people involved in citizen science projects and has produced reports on people's motivations for getting invovled for Defra and the UK Earth Observation Framework (see summary here). Sarah has also worked as an evaluator for several informal learning and citizen science projects.
Sarah welcomes PhD applications from students wishing to use citizen science approaches in their work, explore motivations for participation in citizen science, data quality in citizen science, or evaluating citizen science.
Career
| 2008 - present | Senior Research Associate | Stockholm Environment Institute |
| 2008-2013 | PhD | University of York |
| 2006 - 2008 | MSc | Biodiversity and Conservation University of Leeds |
| 2006 - 2008 | Volunteer Education Officer | BTCV, York (now The Conservation Volunteers) |
| 2002 -2005 | BA (Hons) | Geography University of Oxford |
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Environmental Field Project (Convenor)
- Environmental Systems Project
- Energy and the Environment
- Ecological Principles
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
