Tactical Research Advisor, Crisis Evidence Lab
Sophie works at the busy intersection of visual, participatory, and data-informed research.
In addition to the production of research, she draws on her background in design to think about how the lab communicates its more complex or sensitive findings, via digital formats that are engaging and accessible.
Beyond Amnesty International, Sophie is one-half of the citizen science project, open-weather. She sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Digital War.
Offline and outdoors, she can be found swimming in cold bodies of water.
table { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100%; border: 1px solid #ddd; } th, td { text-align: left; padding: 8px; vertical-align: text-top; } tr:nth-child(even){ background-color: #f2f2f2 } In this three-part series, we focus on key elements behind the successful crowd-sourcing project, Decode Surveillance NYC, including the design of the data collection, early analysis, and what it means to…
Translation affects who can access our published work and who – through the decision to work in certain languages and not others – is included in the research. Yet, the decision to translate and how we handle translation rarely features in project methodologies and, unlike other tools or technologies, its impact can be hard to…
In this three-part series, we focus on key elements behind the successful crowd-sourcing project, Decode Surveillance NYC, including the design of the data collection, early analysis, and what it means to build community online. In this first post, the authors outline how the team worked to define the research question and design the crowdsourcing of the data. Designing…
Estimated time: 1 hour Experience level: Intermediate ?? Citizen Evidence Online Video Wrangler is a collection of bash scripts to batch download, resize, and generate thumbnails of online videos. It uses the popular (recently reinstated) GitHub project, youtube-dl. We developed the Online Video Wrangler in collaboration with Rectangle (Daniel Powers and Lizzie Malcolm) to standardise…