Modeling emerging technology scale-up
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List of topics for collaboration
We always have more ideas than we could ever work on. Every now and then, we write a small pitch for ideas that might offer great opportunities for collaborations with talented master students to work on. This list is by no means complete, but might give you an impression fo the spectrum of projects we are working on. Do not hesitate to contact us for questions and further information.
This project aims to design and implement interactive query-building tools using Elasticsearch/Solr index statistics and AI-driven recommendations to help researchers transparently optimise precision, recall, and topical coverage for systematic literature searches.
Develop and benchmark a modular NLP pipeline that uses smart gazetteer filtering and context extraction to reliably identify, resolve, and interpret study locations mentioned in scientific literature.
We are always looking for bright minds who want to work with us. If you are interested in what you see (or are inspired by the outlines), get in touch!
Recent years have seen a move of social media users from the environmental fields from X/Twitter to Bluesky and other platforms. This project aims to better understand this shift by combining previously gathered X/Twitter data with new data from Bluesky.
Technological solutions to climate change are a major part of climate debates on social media. But which factors explain user’s engagement with solutions?
Update and expand existing analysis: Women are under-represented in adaptation policy research and are more likely to emphasise justice topics - IOPscience
Climate policies need to be informed by the best and most recent evidence. However, it is a common problem at the science-policy interface that this evidence is often not available when decision-makers need it. “
This project aims to use a policy analysis to explore the effects of policy reversals, weakening legislation, interest group obstruction, and other non-climate policy effects on emissions.
This project aims to quantify the frontiers of emissions reductions and identify where slowdowns in emissions reductions should be anticipated without more stringent action in those sectors.
In prioritised screening for systematic reviews, the question is when to stop the screening process in a way that the reviewer can be confident to reach a desirable recall target.
A variety of behavioral, information and monetary interventions have been proposed to reduce energy consumption in residential buildings
What images do different media outlets choose for their content on climate change or different CDR methods?
A systematic review and meta-analysis of ex-post evidence
Often research states "this is limited to English-language literature". We need to get away from that!
Links to external sources and/or qualitative analysis
What is the true scale of implemented carbon capture?
We spend a lot of time and money on students to annotate text data. Some of them are used to train ML text classification models. Can ChatGPT be used to save some of the resources?
