Carlos Cámara-Menoyo (Senior Research Software Engineer)

Profile

I am a versatile, transdisciplinary, and passionate person with a mixed technical and sociological background. As a Senior Research Software Engineer, I am responsible to support research and teaching by using and developing research software while promoting an open, reproducible research culture and outputs.

Prior to joining CIM as Senior Research Software Engineer, I have worked in the private sector as an architect, drupal developer, product owner, GIS technician, as well as in Higher Education. It is in that field where I have extensive teaching experience as a Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Technology at Universidad San Jorge (Spain), Associate Lecturer at the MSc on Cities and Urbanism at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain), and Associate Lecturer at the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University, amongst others. As a researcher, I have worked as a Research Fellow at Warwick's IGSD, studiying the role visual representations to understand and engage with abstract concepts like the Food-Energy-Water nexus; as a research associate at Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), exploring the geographies of digital capitalism and bottom-up alternatives through their research areas on urbanization processes and co-creation; and at the Open Source Architectures Research Group at Universidad San Jorge, contributing in the projects “Zaragoza’s Social Risk Map” and “Accessible Zaragoza”, as a PI.

As an activist, I contribute to open and alternative projects and initiatives such as OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, or QGIS, I a member of several cooperatives of the social economy, and I am one of the co-founders of Collaborative Mapping, an action-research group to promote the tools and knowledge to make open and alternative cartographies available to the general public. I have also taken part in several mapathons and hackathons, such as Médecins Sans Frontières’ Humanitarian mapathons (organizer), Meta-decidim’s Participatory Science’s workshop of data on tourist accommodationLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, or Tabakalera’s Summerlab on Data Literacy (invited), amongst others.

Research

Subject area

The combination of such diverse experiences, interests, and skills has articulated my research agenda within the Urban Studies, structured around two pillars: 1) the commodifications between cities, technology, and society, and 2) co-production and collective-action. So far, I have applied a spatial reading with a social perspective to the topic of urban, spatial inequities, and, more specifically, on urban mobility for disabled people and urban commons to find ways in which cities can be more resilient and egalitarian.

Working at CIM as Senior Research Software Engineer has given me the opportunity of bridging my passions by applying technology and software through a social perspective and within a collaborative setting to the existing diverse and interdisciplinary research culture and teaching of the Centre.

Areas of Interest: Urban Studies, Open Science, Commons, Co-production, Data Visualisation, Spatial Justice

Selected Publications

A complete list of publications can be seen in my ORCID profileLink opens in a new window Link opens in a new window or Google ScholarLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window:

Journals

Cámara-Menoyo, C., Porto de Albuquerque, J., Suchomska, J., Tregonning, G., & McInerny, G. (2024). Co-designing grounded visualisations of the Food-Water-Energy nexus to enable urban sustainability transformations. Environmental Science & Policy, 154, 103712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103712Link opens in a new window
Cámara-Menoyo, C., Vivas-Elias, J., Ribera-Fumaz, R., & León-Casero, J. (2022). [Towards an urban agenda of the commons: a case study of the political demands of the urban commons in Barcelona] Hacia una agenda urbana del común: Un estudio de caso de las reivindicaciones políticas de los comunes urbanos en Barcelona. Revista EURE - Revista de Estudios Urbano Regionales, 48(143), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.7764/EURE.48.143.11
Cámara-Menoyo, C., Ribera-Fumaz, R., & Vivas Elias, P. (2021). [Problematizing Urban Commons: Towards a “Provincialised” Approach] Problematizando los comunes urbanos: Hacia una aproximación “provincializada”. urbe. Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana, 13(e20190185). https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-3369.013.e20190185
León Casero, J., & Cámara-Menoyo, C. (2020). [The precariousness of urban commons in the face of European public law] La precariedad de los comunes urbanos frente al derecho público europeo. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 19(3), 726–743.
Ruiz, A., Temes-Córdovez, R. R., & Cámara-Menoyo, C. (2018). [Accessibility and collaborative information technologies. Cartographies for an inclusive city] Accesibilidad y tecnologías de información colaborativas. Cartografías para una ciudad inclusiva. Bitácora Urbano Territorial, 28(1), 155–162. https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v28n1.68316
Cámara-Menoyo, C., Ruiz-Varona, A., & León-Casero, J. (2017). [Integrating GIS with social purposes within educational curricula: “Zaragoza Accesible” study case] Integrando SIG con fines sociales en el currículum educativo: El caso de Zaragoza Accesible. Jornadas sobre Innovación Docente en Arquitectura, 5, 56–66. https://doi.org/10.5821/jida.2017.5202
León Casero, J., & Cámara-Menoyo, C. (2015). [The Architecture of Seduction: An Analysis on Digital Architectures within Consumer Society] La arquitectura de la seducción: Un análisis de las arquitecturas digitales en la sociedad de consumo. Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 27(3), 445–460. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ARIS.2015.v27.n3.46485

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Novack, T., Tripp, J., & Cámara-Menoyo, C. (2023). The Influence of Socio-Demographic Factors on Walkability Perception – Results from a Large-Scale Survey. 6. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8286275

Cámara-Menoyo, C., Tripp, J., & Turkay, C. (2022, September 7). Quarto: a library to run them all? A collaborative exercise to use, learn and assess quarto for authoring reproducible documents in different scenarios [Workshop]. RSECon 2022, Newcastle. https://github.com/WarwickCIM/quarto-workshop

Cámara-Menoyo, C., Porto de Albuquerque, J., McInerny, G., & Tregonning, G. (2022). Visualisation tool for a grounded FEW Nexus [R]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6566159

Projects

September 2024 - July 2025: "Can Digital Goods be Neutral? Evaluating OpenStreetMap’s equity through participatory data visualisation", PI (Timothy Monteath, Co-I). ESRC Digital Good Research Fund: £49,934.
March 2024 - July 2024: "Archiving Disappearance in post-2019 Kashmir: Towards a Just Ecological and Political Future", Co-I (Goldie Osuri, PI). Warwick Research Development Fund: £4,500.
Jan 2023 - July 2023: "Researching Platform Migration: Twitter Decline and the Rise of Mastodon". PI (Nathaniel Tkaz, Co-I). Warwick Research Development Fund: £3,301
July 2022 - September 2023: Investigating the effects of street features and sunlight conditions on local people’s perception of walkability through a large-scale participatory experiment, (Co-I; Tessio Novack, PI; James Tripp, Co-I). Warwick Participatory Research Fund: £5,853

Teaching

Modules

At CIM, I teach at the following modules:

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Supervision

Impact

As part of the Researching Platform Migration: Twitter Decline and the Rise of Mastodon, I co-organised the Mastodon symposium

Contact details

Email:

Carlos.Camara@warwick.ac.uk

Social Media:

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ORCID profile

Google Scholar

Mailing address:

Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies

Office B0.03

University of Warwick

Coventry

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