Louise Francis

Louise Francis discovered the power of maps through her early research in evolutionary genetics and the environment. She moved on from there to combine people, places, the environment and maps in her work and research, which led to the creation of Mapping for Change, a University College London spin-out social enterprise. Louise has led projects and worked extensively on participatory mapping; community engagement and citizen science programmes on topics spanning local pollution monitoring to planning, from exploring issues of accessibility to looking at citizenship and social housing issues. She has extensive experience working with a diverse range of grass-roots organisations, in the UK, Caribbean and mainland Europe.