We specialise in helping researchers collect crowd-sourced data for biological surveys

Case study: LeafWatch

  • App available for iPhone and Android
  • Over 5000 unique records collected in first season
  • Featured on the BBC’s The One Show, Radio 4, Sunday Times – even tweeted by Stephen Fry!

Full details

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How we could help your project

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    We work with you to design and build a custom phone app with a user-centred focus

  2. 2

    Participants download the app and go out into the field to collect photographic, geo-located records.

  3. 3

    Records are verified by nominated experts using an easy-to-use system. You get high quality, validated results!

About us

We work with researchers and organisations to help them use smartphone technology to leverage the power of citizen science. Working closely with you, we evaluate how crowd-sourcing with GPS phone technology can most effectively help you to gather useful data; then we build the custom software to do it. By making use of re-usable components, we keep the costs down.

We are a small team based in R&D/ILRT at the University of Bristol. Our team consists of developers, designers, a usability expert and a project manager (who is also a rogue ecologist).

More projects

Previous clients

  • The Environment Agency
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  • University of Bristol
  • University of Hull
  • University College London
  • The Zoological Society of London

Get in touch

Dave Kilbey

If you would like to see how a mobile phone application could help your project, get in touch with our project manager Dave Kilbey. We’re always interested in discussing new ideas.

Nature Locator Project Team
ILRT, University of Bristol
8-10 Berkeley Square
Bristol BS8 1HH

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