Dr Elisa Serafinelli has joined the Information School as a Research
Associate . She specialises in mobile visualities and the social
communication of photography, and will work with Work Package leader Dr
Paul Reilly and part-time Research Assistant Rebecca Stevenson on the EU
Horizon 2020 project 'IMPROVER.' Elisa will have primary responsibility
for the Sheffield team's study of how social media can be used to build
resilience in disaster-affected communities. We would like to welcome
her to the Information School and look forward to working with her on
this project
A project to create a raspberry pi weather station is currently live in the Information School. The Sheffield Pi weather station has been created by Romilly Close, undergraduate Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Sheffield. The project was funded by the Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) scheme and is being supervised by Dr Jo Bates, Paula Goodale and Fred Sonnenwald from the Information School. Information about the Sheffield Pi station and how to create your own can be found on the project website . You can also see live data from the Sheffield Pi station on Plot.ly , and further information can also be found on the Met Office Weather Observations Website . This work compliments the School’s existing project entitled ‘The Secret Life of a Weather Datum’ which explores socio-cultural influences on weather data. This project is funded under the AHRC’s Digital Transformations Big Data call. It aims to pilot a new approach to im
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