Roundtable on environmental defenders – Aarhus convention ExMOP

Notes from the roundtable on environmental defenders. I have not tried to capture the exact words of the presenters. This is part of the Aarhus ExMOP from 24 June 2022. The chair of the session, Teresa Weber, noted that the appointment of the special rapporteur on environmental defenders, elected yesterday is a way in which …

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Thematic session on access to information (UNECE Aarhus convention – working group of parties)

UN Geneva Peacock These notes are from a session which is part of the working group meeting of the parties of the Aarhus Convention on 22 June 2022. It's only part of the meeting, which the full details of can be found on the UNECE site. The thematic session on access to information focused on …

Mutual Learning Exercise – Citizen Science Initiatives (Vienna meeting)

These are notes from the meeting on topic 4 of the Mutual Learning Exercise on citizen science initiatives, it's the notes from the day, and don't represent any official view of the event, which is available on the European Commission's website. The meeting took place 7-8 June 2022 in Vienna, at the Palais Harrach. Important …

Recording of the collabinar: teaching citizen science (UC Davis)

Early in May, I had the pleasure of participating in the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) Center for Community and Citizen Science Collabinar. The event was an opportunity to reflect on the development of teaching citizen science at UCL - the creation of a graduate-level course, the development of training modules within the …

Engaging Citizen Science – Dick Kasperowski keynote: scientific and civic engagement in citizen science: time to talk about societal effects?

Dick talk - scientific and civic engagement in citizen science: time to talk about societal effects? Talking from a Swedish perspective to explore if the issues are generic. There are some disturbing issues - paradoxes, inequalities, and gender issues. Democracy: Infrastructures, how trust plays out and how CS is used at "the limits of the …

Conference notes: Engaging Citizen Science – Aarhus. Keynote Heidi Ballard

The Engaging Citizen Science conference is organised by the Danish citizen science network and took place at Aarhus University (25-26 April). The conference started with a keynote by Heidi Ballard, UC Davis. Gitte Kragh starting the conference Challanges Heidi Ballard - engaging communities. Multiple crises: Covid-19, climate change, racial injustice, refugee crisis. Young people feel …

New paper: Citizen science in China’s water resources monitoring: current status and future prospects

There is something special in the first peer-review publication. It's a milestone and an important stage in the development of the researcher that is leading on it. For PhD students, it is an important stage - instead of a consumer of academic publications, you're becoming a producer of scientific knowledge. This new publication "Citizen science …

Contours of Citizen Science paper published in Royal Society Open Science

At the end of 2019, just before the pandemic, I was lucky to be hosted and supported by the Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity in Paris (CRI-Paris.org) and with colleagues from ECSA and the European project EU-Citizen.Science carried out a survey to help identify what are the boundaries of citizen science, in terms of the …

CSA law and policy group: the Aarhus Convention and Citizen Science

This is the recording from earlier this month from a meeting of the Citizen Science Association (CSA) meeting of the law and policy working group which was dedicated to Aarhus convention and its relevance to citizen science. The main speakers in the session were Lea Shanley, who co-chair the group, Anna Berti Suman (check her …

New paper: Exploring factors associated with participation in citizen science among UK museum visitors aged 40–60

Natural History Museum The DITOs escalator was developed as part of the "Doing It Together Science" project and represent a conceptual framework that positions citizen science within the wider set of activities that we can consider as public engagement in science - from the act of reading an article about scientific discovery in a newspaper …