Dr Godwin Yeboah's background is interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary and socio-technical in nature transcending computational, social and geographical sciences. He considers himself a Socio-Technical Researcher in the emerging interdisciplinary fields of Urban Informatics and Sociospatial Data Science.
Dr Yeboah is active in the international scientific communities of Geographic Information Science, Citizen Science, Transport and Sustainable Development. He Develops innovative Research methods to improve our understanding of socio-technical urban environments with a view to making cities more resilient and improving human development as well as a sustainable environment.
His Research is situated within an interdisciplinary problem space that intersects urban geography, data science, information management as well as science and technology studies. Dr Yeboah's socio-technical approach draws on social research and geo-computational methods, covering a wide range of topics that include, but is not limited to, collaborative crowdsourced and volunteered geographic information, decision support systems, information systems and sustainable urban development.
His education is as follows:
- PhD Geographic Information Science, 2010-2014, Northumbria University at Newcastle, UK
- MSc Software Technology, 2002-2004, Hochschule fur Technik Stuttgart, Germany
- MSc Geoinformatics & Photogrammetry, 2001-2003, Hochschule fur Technik Stuttgart, Germany
- BSc (Hons) in Engineering (Geomatics), 1996-2001, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
