Research outputs

Projects

Participatory Art for Society Engagement with Ocean and Water
Horizon Europe, 2m€, 2025-2027
Coordinator: Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Role: Contributor

Accelerating the Societal Dimension of Open Science Training through Citizen Science
Circle-U Seed Fund, 10k€, 2023
Coordinator: Mordechai (Muki) Haklay, Université Paris Cité
Role: Co-PI

IMPETUS
Horizon Europe / UKRI, 5m€, 2022-2026
Coordinator: Zabala Innovation Consulting Sa, Spain
Role: Coordinator

Strand-Aldwych Data Stories
UKRI, £10k, 2021
King’s College London

MediaFutures
Horizon 2020, 5.2m€, 2020-2023
Coordinator: Leibniz Universität Hannover
Role: Contributor

Publications (peer-reviewed)

Engineering Safe and Trustworthy AI: The Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies (PHAWM) Project
Stumpf, Di Campli San Vito, Hyde-Vaamonde, Thuermer, Simperl, Soufan, Moshfeghi, Fringi, Johnston, Kim (2025) – 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems.

Ensuring Artificial Intelligence is Safe and Trustworthy: The Need for Participatory Auditing
Di Campli San Vito, Stumpf, Hyde-Vaamonde, Thuermer (2025) – proceedings for the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, .

When data meets citizens: an investigation of citizen engagement in data-driven innovation programmes.
Thuermer, Walker, Simperl, Carr (2024) – Data & Policy.

AI Art and Misinformation: Approaches and Strategies for Media Literacy and Fact Checking.
Walker, Thuermer, Vicens, Simperl (2023) – Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, New York.

Talking metadata – understanding privacy implications of volunteer contributions in participatory projects.
Thuermer, Koesten, Simperl (2023) – Etica & Politica

Political Parties and their Online Platforms – Differences in Philosophies.
Fitzpatrick & Thuermer (2023) – Frontiers in Political Science

Data Management Documentation in Citizen Science Projects: Bringing Formalisation and Transparency Together.
Thuermer, Guardia, Reeves, Corcho, Simperl (2023) – Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

Smart Rural: The Open Data Gap
Walker, Thuermer, Simperl, Carr (2020) – 3rd Data for Policy Conference, London

Data Protection by Design: Building the foundations of trustworthy data sharing.
Stalla-Bourdillon, Thuermer, Walker, Carmichael, Simperl (2020) – Data & Policy

Challenges of online participation: Digital inequality in party-internal processes.
Thuermer (2019) – Proceedings of the 2nd Weizenbaum Conference, Berlin.

Everybody thinks online participation is great – for somebody else.
Thuermer, Roth, O’Hara, Staab (2018) – Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam.

Mentoring Web Science MSc students.
Thuermer, Morgan, Wilde (2018) – Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam.

Internet use, in- and exclusion in decision-making processes within political parties.
Thuermer, Roth, Luczak-Rösch, O’Hara (2016) – Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science, Hannover.

Publications (other)

Insights From Great Britain—Smart Rural: The Open Data Gap (2025)
Book Chapter in: The European Smart City Movement

The Data Springboard: Co-creating a Data Governance Framework for Strand-Aldwych (2024)

Is there such a thing as a web-native party? (2021)
Book Chapter in: Digital Parties. Offline-online hybridization patterns and consequences.

MediaFutures Toolkit (2022)

Participatory science toolkit against pollution (ACTION Toolkit) (2021)

Data-Sharing Toolkit. Practical guidance for successful data sharing. (2019)

Enabling Smart Rural: The Open Data Gap (2019)
Analytical Report 14, European Data Portal