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Oliver is Creative Technologist on the Data Stories project at the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI), Ireland. This role support the technical aspects of research-creation by leading the development of interactive data stories which utilise spatial data and creative media like gaming technologies, mixed realities and data physicalisation to communicate issues of land use and development, housing, homelessness, commercial real estate, and urban infrastructure: https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/

Previously Oliver has worked on a number of high impact projects related to planning and the built environment. Working as a research fellow at the UCL Energy Institute, Oliver was responsible for the development and maintenance of operational dashboards and a 3D digital twin, the 3DStock model, designed for the analysis of building energy performance across England and Wales. Oliver also worked as research assistant on an Innovate UK funded project with Mace, Imperial College and the Connected Environments Lab at CASA: AEC Production Control Room. Prior to this Oliver worked as data and training coordinator on the Building City Dashboards project for the National Centre of Geocomputation (NCG) at Maynooth University.

Each of these projects is an extension of Oliver's PhD research which investigated practical applications for internet of things (IoT) sensing technologies and advanced visualisation and interaction technologies during the end-to-end deployment of an operational digital twin at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London: the Here East Digital Twin. The Here East Digital Twin and wider PhD was an EPSRC and Ordnance Survey funded project, undertaken at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), UCL. The project also involved participation as a member of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Urban IoT (ICRI).

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Education and qualifications (4)

University College London: London, GB

2015-09 to present | PhD Researcher in Near Real Time Urban Data Spaces (The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis)
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University College London: London, GB

2013-09 to 2015-09 | MRes, Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis)
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King's College London: London, London, GB

2004-09 to 2006-06 | MA, Critical Methodologies (Department of French)
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Heythrop College: London, London, GB

1999-09 to 2002-09 | BA Philosophy (Philosophy)
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Works (13)

Digital twins and deep maps

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2025-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Rob Kitchin; Oliver Dawkins
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More Than One Twin: An Ecology of Model Applications in East London

Digital Twins for Smart Cities
2023 | Book chapter
Contributors: Andy Hudson-Smith; Valerio Signorelli; Oliver Dawkins; Michael Batty
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Multimodality: Exploring Sensibility and Sense-Making Beyond the Metaverse

2023 | Book chapter
Contributors: Gareth W. Young; Oliver Dawkins
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City Dashboards and 3D Geospatial Technologies for Urban Planning and Management

Applied Data Analysis for Urban Planning and Management
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781529739145
Contributors: Oliver Dawkins; Rob Kitchin; Gareth W. Young; Tomasz Zawadzki
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Tracing Hyperobjects: Digital Deep Mapping in the Anthropocene

Digital Deep Mapping
2021-09-08 | Conference paper
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Planning and 3D Spatial Media: Progress, Prospects, and the Knowledge and Experiences of Local Government Planners in Ireland

Planning Theory & Practice
2021-05-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Rob Kitchin; Gareth W. Young; Oliver Dawkins
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Urban IoT: Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities for Mass Data Collection, Analysis, and Visualization

Urban Informatics
2021-04-07 | Other
Part of ISSN: 2365-757X
Contributors: Andrew Hudson-Smith; Duncan Wilson; Steven Gray; Oliver Dawkins
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Engaging Place with Mixed Realities: Sharing Multisensory Experiences of Place Through Community-Generated Digital Content and Multimodal Interaction

2020 | Book chapter
Contributors: Oliver Dawkins; Gareth W. Young
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Workshop-Ground Truthing and Virtual Field Trips

Proceedings of 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network, iLRN 2020
2020 | Conference paper
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Contributors: Dawkins, O.; Young, G.W.
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ICRI Envirosensor Data

2020-02-05 | Dataset
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Planning, Land and Housing in the Digital Data Revolution/The Politics of Digital Transformations of Housing/Digital Innovations, PropTech and Housing – the View from Melbourne/Digital Housing and Renters: Disrupting the Australian Rental Bond System and Tenant Advocacy/Prospects for an Intelligent Planning System/What are the Prospects for a Politically Intelligent Planning System?

Planning Theory & Practice
2019-09-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1464-9357
Contributors: Libby Porter; Desiree Fields; Ani Landau-Ward; Dallas Rogers; Jathan Sadowski; Sophia Maalsen; Rob Kitchin; Oliver Dawkins; Gareth Young; Lisa K Bates
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Living with a digital twin: Operational management and engagement using IoT and Mixed Realities at UCL's Here East Campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Giscience and Remote Sensing
2018 | Conference paper
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Opening Urban Mirror Worlds: Possibilities for Participation in Digital Urban Dataspaces

2017 | Conference paper
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