This project has achieved five broad outcomes: (1) It has enabled an experienced researcher (John Palmer) to make significant advances on research that links immigration, activity-space segregation, and inequality; (2) it has provided the researcher with critical training and career development support; (3) it has given valuable research and teaching outputs to the beneficiary institution (UPF); (4) it has offered rich new knowledge about the world to the wider academic community and society at large, disseminated through academic papers and policy papers, a briefing to Members of the European Parliament, public talks and videos, and broad media coverage; and (5) it has helped launch a global initiative organized in collaboration with intergovernmental and civil society organizations. With the end of the project, the researcher will remain at the beneficiary institution as a tenure-track professor, and he will continue to push forward his research, teaching, and outreach activities in that capacity.
Deliverables:
Ethics guidelines and review committee report (Deliverable 1.1). This was completed and uploaded through the continuous reporting module of the project tracking system on the H2020 Participant’s Portal. The ethics approval process was useful, as it gave the researcher an opportunity to think through the project’s ethical implications and safeguards in more detail, and to receive helpful feedback from UPF’s independent ethics review board (CIREP) and data protection specialists.
Sampling protocol report (Deliverable 2.1). This is a written report explaining the sampling protocol. It was completed and made available to the public through the project website and Zenodo.
Data management plan report (Deliverable 3.1). This is a written report on the data management plan that serves as a guide for this research and that will also provide guidance for future projects. It was completed and uploaded through the continuous reporting module of the project tracking system on the H2020 Participant’s Portal.
Project website and blog (Deliverable 4.1). The project website is live at
http://activityspaceproject.com(si apre in una nuova finestra). The blog is operational but will not be exploited until participant recruitment begins. Note that the website does not emphasis the immigration aspect of the project (it is called simply “activity-space project”) because of the goal is to attract a broad audience and a broad set of participants. The project requires that we learn about the activity spaces of natives and immigrants alike.
Mobile phone application (Deliverable 5.1). This application was completed and all code made available to the public on Github under the open source GPLv3 license. It will be placed on Google Play for participants to download and install on their phones as soon as sampling begins.2028
First and second articles sent for review (Deliverable 7.1 and 7.2). The researcher was able to go well beyond the two articles anticipated under this deliverable, ultimately publishing during the project period 6 journal articles, 2 book chapters, and 1 policy paper, with an additional book chapter and policy paper accepted and forthcoming in 2018.
Forthcoming Book Chapters
• Palmer, John R.B. Martin Brocklehurst, Elizabeth Tyson, Anne Bowser, Eleonore Pauwels, and Frederic Bartumeus. 2018. “Global Mosquito Alert.” In Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy, edited by Muki Haklay, Aletta Bonn, Susanne Hecker, Anne Bowser, Zen Makuch and Johannes Vogel. Forthcoming from UCL Press.
Forthcoming Policy Papers
• Tyson, Elizabeth, Anne Bowser, John Palmer, Durrell Kapan, Frederic Bartumeus, and Eleanore Pauwels. 2017. “Global Mosquito Alert: Building Citizen Science Capacity for Surveillance and Control of Disease-Vector Mosquitoes.” Forthcoming from Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
