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  • Bowers, L. J., Sharma, N., Hancock, J., Lakeman Fraser, P., Newman, J., Cheng, K., Manches, A., Colucci-Gray, L. and Siddharthan, A., 2026, ‘Sensing Nature: A School-ground Haptic Map and Tactile Garden for Texture Exploration’, in Proceedings of the 25th Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC ’26), 22-25 Jun 2026, Brighton, UK., https://oro.open.ac.uk/110764/.
  • Colucci-Gyay, L., Hancock, J., Manches, A., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Newman, J., Islam, R., Sharma, N., Dodd, M., Ansine, J., Bowers, L., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2025, ‘To touch is to know’: haptic inquiry for primary school citizen science’, International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 15(3), pp. 360–376., https://oro.open.ac.uk/104267/.
  • Sharma, N., Colucci-Gray, L., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Robinson, A., Newman, J., Van der Wal, R., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2024, ‘Image Recognition as a ‘Dialogic AI Partner’ within Biodiversity Citizen Science - an empirical investigation’, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 9(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/99851/.
  • Mikroyannidis, A., Sharma, N., Ekuban, A. and Domingue, J., 2024, ‘Using Generative AI and ChatGPT for improving the production of distance learning materials’, in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 01-04 Jul 2024, Nicosia, Cyprus., https://oro.open.ac.uk/97397/.
  • Colucci-Gray, L., Hancock, J., Islam, R., Sharma, N., Manches, A., Bowers, L., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Mozier, S., Newman, J., Reuger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2024, ‘Seeing with hands and touching with eyes: recovering sensorial attention to nature in primary schools’, in First International Conference on Embodied Education, 15-17 May 2024, Danish School of Education (DPU), Tuborgvej 164, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark., https://oro.open.ac.uk/97621/.
  • Hancock, J., Colucci-Gray, L., Siddharthan, A., Manches, A., Sharma, N., Islam, R., Bowers, L., Reuger, S., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Newman, J., Mozier, S. and Barry, R., 2023, ‘“We felt the textures from nature and it gave us new ideas”: Investigating sustainability education through primary school children’s natural and digital haptic touch explorations’, in SERA Conference 2023, Wednesday 22 - Friday 24 Nov 2023, Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, United Kingdom., https://oro.open.ac.uk/97619/.
  • Lakeman Fraser, P., Colluci-Gray, L., Robinson, A., Sforzi, A., Staples-Rolf, R., Newman, J., Gill, R., Sharma, N., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2023, ‘X-Polli:Nation: Contributing towards sustainable development goals through school-based pollinator citizen science’, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 8(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/86427/.
  • Sharma, N., Colucci-Gray, L., van der Wal, R. and Siddharthan, A., 2022, ‘Consensus building in on-line citizen science’, in 25th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW 2022), 08-22 Nov 2022, Online., https://oro.open.ac.uk/83971/.
  • Anderson, H. B., Robinson, A., Siddharthan, A., Sharma, N., Bostock, H., Salisbury, A., Roberts, S. and van der Wal, R., 2020, ‘Citizen science data reveals the need for keeping garden plant recommendations up-to-date to help pollinators’, Scientific Reports, 10(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/73795/.