Meet my two lovely new PhD plants – they are both in need of names…. I’ve been tossing around ‘Penelope’ for the lovely lady in pink. However, I’m not yet completely sold on it and I’m waiting to see what I come up with for the dashing, tall gentleman in the corner. Watch this space!

I went out to GNS Science for a tour and to work for the afternoon on Monday. There were some really lovely people and it is a great space to work from, I will definitely try to get out there once or twice a month.

Still so much topic confusion, especially around the role of community resilience building. Analysing Citizen Science seems big enough without adding this other complex, messy concept. It has been suggested that looking at the ‘value’ could be a way around this.

I feel like I need to lock myself away in a cave for several weeks and just read everything I can find on citizen science. I guess the cave will be my office, and several weeks will be the next few months during my Literature Review stage. I still don’t feel I know enough to work out what to do my Lit Review on though! Need to acquire more brain space…

However, the coolest thing about the PhD journey so far is now hopefully having the opportunity to be a research assistant to the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction in Cancun, Mexico this May!! WOW! So cool, very excited.

But for now, back to the cave…

Lisa xx