Citizen Science | Mapping for Change

Citizen Science is a fast-growing area of research which provides multiple benefits and enables non-scientists to collaborate with scientists for mutual gain. Citizen Science provides the opportunity to gather new data which can be used to raise awareness, lobby for change and take targeted action. Additionally, participation in Citizen Science initiatives typically gives people greater confidence to engage in democratic decision-making processes in the future.

We have over 15 years’ experience in coordinating Citizen Science initiatives ranging from local grassroots campaigns to EU-funded multi-country research projects and have supported groups to measure and map various types of environmental pollutants, including air, noise, and odour.

We have co-designed projects with community groups, primary schools and local authorities and supported them to take action, be it behaviour change, policy recommendations or awareness raising.

We can support the whole research process from framing the research question, co-designing survey and data collection methods to ensure validity and relevance, recruiting and training participants, through to data analysis, visualising results, and mapping out next steps.

Resident and Community Groups

If your community is experiencing an issue that could benefit from a Citizen Science project, please see our Information Sheet for further information. As well as achieving policy changes and raising awareness, past projects have brought people together in their local area, and given communities the confidence to participate in decision making.

Local Authorities

Citizen Science is an effective way of raising awareness among residents, as well as engaging them to co-develop strategies for change, and use evidence collected to consider potential solutions. If you are interested in setting up a Citizen Science project with local residents, please get in touch, or see our Information Sheet for further details.

Citizen Science is a fast-growing area of research which provides multiple benefits and enables non-scientists to collaborate with scientists for mutual gain. Citizen Science provides the opportunity to gather new data which can be used to raise awareness, lobby for change and take targeted action. Additionally, participation in Citizen Science initiatives typically gives people greater confidence to engage in democratic decision-making processes in the future.
We have over 15 years’ experience in coordinating Citizen Science initiatives ranging from local grassroots campaigns to EU-funded multi-country research projects and have supported groups to measure and map various types of environmental pollutants, including air, noise, and odour.
We have co-designed projects with community groups, primary schools and local authorities and supported them to take action, be it behaviour change, policy recommendations or awareness raising.
We can support the whole research process from framing the research question, co-designing survey and data collection methods to ensure validity and relevance, recruiting and training participants, through to data analysis, visualising results, and mapping out next steps.
Resident and Community Groups

If your community is experiencing an issue that could benefit from a Citizen Science project, please see our Information Sheet for further information. As well as achieving policy changes and raising awareness, past projects have brought people together in their local area, and given communities the confidence to participate in decision making.

Local Authorities

Citizen Science is an effective way of raising awareness among residents, as well as engaging them to co-develop strategies for change, and use evidence collected to consider potential solutions. If you are interested in setting up a Citizen Science project with local residents, please get in touch, or see our Information Sheet for further details.
- We Care for Our Air Redbridge
- Addressing odour in Southall and Hayes
- Science in the City 2
  The City of London Corporation and Mapping for Change are teaming up once again to conduct a citizen science project to monitor air quality in the capital city and evaluate the recent changes made in the area. The project will seek to understand the impacts that public participation and citizen science have on environmental issues.
- eCSAgri - Extreme Citizen Science in Agriculture
- InSPIRES
  InSPIRES is a EU-funded project which aims to address the information gap that vulnerable demographics can hold about the impact that air pollution has on their health. Mapping for Change works with a school in London, whereby parents and pupils will have the opportunity to monitor particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide pollution levels in and around their homes.
- Clean Air Villages 3
  Cross River Partnership is partnering with Lambeth Council for the Clean Air Villages 3 project to improve the air quality in 16 different London ‘villages’, where air pollution and population density levels are high. We’ll help KCH develop a baseline understanding of their local air quality around the hospital grounds.
- Planting Healthy Air in Schools
  Mapping for Change is working with pupils and teachers to monitor nitrogen dioxide levels around each school using citizen science. Together, we have installed diffusion tubes at 10 locations around the school which will be changed over by the EcoClub every month for 12 months.
- Kampala NOSES; Network for Odour Sensing Empowerment and Sustainability.
  Kampala NOSES is a pilot project that seeks to introduce novel ways with which to monitor and record odour issues across Kampala. All key stakeholders, from policy-makers to public sector administrators, from academics to industries and the community at large are needed to create a longer-term vision of implementing new environmental reporting and governance mechanisms.
- D-NOSES - Tackling Odour Pollution Across Europe
  D-NOSES is a three-year EU funded research project which aims to provide a solution to the largely neglected issue of odour pollution, changing the traditional top-down approach for a bottom-up one. The lack of regulation from authorities around odour pollution is mainly due to it being difficult to reliably measure and the potential solutions being costly to implement.
- Breathe Clean - Citizen Science in Tower Hamlets
  Breathe Clean will be providing Tower Hamlets residents with the materials & training needed to monitor nitrogen dioxide levels around the places that matter to them. Participants will measure the air quality at a number of locations over a period of six months, to get a more granular picture of the situation in the borough. The data from the Breathe Clean project will be made available on Mapping for Change’s community maps webpage.
- Love Lambeth Air
  Love Lambeth Air provided local people with the materials and support required to collect measurements for nitrogen dioxide across a number of streets in Lambeth, providing a detailed picture of air quality in their local area.
- MyAccessible.EU
  MyAccessible.EU is a three year research project funded by the European Commission. It aims to make cities’ built environment more accessible for disabled and older people by challenging social attitudes, raising awareness and delivering assistive mobile applications. These mobile applications will provide tools for collectively gathering and sharing information about accessibility of public spaces.
- Science in the City
  Science in the City is a project that is being carried out with residents in the Barbican and Mansell Street, in the City of London. Residents are using low-tech tools to measure Nitrogen Dioxide and particulates.
- Citizen Science Used to Map Community Air Quality
  In 2009, Mapping for Change supported communities across London to measure and map local air quality. Use of a ‘citizen science’ approach meant local residents in seven locations were able to collect data, then see the real results of their monitoring activities, and subsequently embark on a campaign to see the serious results addressed.