New paper from ActEarly project “Nothing about us without us”

A new paper has been just published in "Health Expectation", building on the co-production strategy of the ActEarly project. The paper is the result of the extensive work of Alex Albert and Shahid Islam in development the strategy. The paper abstract is provided below, it's open access and you can find it here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hex.13709: Introduction …

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Citizen Science & Post-Normal Science zones

The Post-Normal Science 5 symposium moved, like many other scientific meetings this year, to an online meeting. If you haven't come across the term, it is worth looking into - post-normal science (PNS) is, for me, one of the foundations for how citizen science can be integrated into policy processes. PNS is a conceptual framework …

Experiments outside the laboratory: Who should decide? (notes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD_1noCf2x8 These are the notes from an event at UCL on 1st July 2019 part of Scaling (H2020 project) - innovations in Living Labs. The chair was Jack Stilgoe  - Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies, University College London. The second part of it emerged from Tom Wakefield at the ETC group which is looking at …

Citizen Science 2019: Indigenous People on the Front Lines: Using Citizen Science to Improve Environmental Public Health

The session "Indigenous People on the Front Lines: Using Citizen Science to Improve Environmental Public Health" was organised by Judith Zelikoff (NYU medicine), Kathleen Vandiver (MIT), Esther Erdei (University New Mexico / Missouri Breaks Industries Research Inc.), Shirley VanDunk (Ramapough Lenape Tribe) Judith  - they are part of the NIEHS, and Esther is in the …

Barbara Hoenig’s “Europe’s New Scientific Elite”

I never knew that with respect to the European Research Council (ERC), I belong to a (small) group called "Dual role incumbents". Not until I've read "Europe's New Scientific Elite: Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area" - A book by Barbara Hoenig which came out in 2017. The way I heard about …

Justice and the Digital symposium notes

The Digital Geographies Research Group of the RGS-IBG held the annual symposium at the University of Sheffield, under the theme “Justice and the Digital”. These are partial notes from the day The symposium opening session focus on the important question "What's Justice got to do with it?" Jeremy Crampton covered three issues - practices of surveillance in the context …

Lessons learned from Volunteers Interactions with Geographic Citizen Science – Afternoon session

The context of the workshop and the notes from the first part of the workshop is available here. The theme of the second part of the day was Interacting with geographical citizen science: lessons learned from urban environments Volunteer interactions with flood crowdsourcing platforms - Avi Baruch talk is based on a completed PhD on the aspects of volunteers …

GSF-NESTI Open Science & Scientific Excellence workshop – researcher, participants, and institutional aspects

The Global Science Forum - National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators (GSF-NESTI) Workshop on "Reconciling Scientific Excellence and Open Science" (for which you can see the full report here) asked the question "What do we want out of science and how can we incentivise and monitor these outputs?". In particular, the objective of the …

From environmental management to organisational strategy development: Using Drivers-Pressure-State-Impact-Response with ECSA

This week, together with Margaret Gold, I facilitated a strategy meeting of the European Citizen Science Association. At the moment, because a recent lecture in the Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing course that was dedicated to environmental citizen science, the "Driving forces-Pressures-State-Impacts -Responses" (DPSIR) is in the front of my mind. In addition, …

Citizen Science 2017 – Filling the ‘ethics gaps’ in Citizen Science research

The workshop was organised by the ethics working group of the Citizen Science Association, and organised by Anne Bowser - Wilson Center; Lisa Rasmussen - University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Caren Cooper - North Carolina State University and North Carolina Museum of Nature Sciences. The charter for the working group was to identify what are the ethical …