This is a recording of a seminar from early September, which was part of the a session that organised by the Social science and Humanities in ionising radiation Research (SHARE) in their RICOMET 2020 conference. Radon, which is a radioactive gas and that under some condition can accumulate in houses (and especially basements) and is … Continue reading Investigating the potential of citizen science for effective radon measurement and mitigation
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Reflections on ECSA 2020 conference
In early February 2019, Lucy Robinson, the then vice-chair of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) asked me to join the conference organising committee on behalf of the ECSA board. The journey finished last Friday afternoon, with the end of the side events of the conference - as always, a long journey, made longer due … Continue reading Reflections on ECSA 2020 conference
Introducing: ECSA Characteristics of Citizen Science
Today the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) is launching a document that is aimed to help with identifying the type of activities that belong to citizen science. The document "ECSA Characteristics of Citizen Science" is coming ready with an interpretation document, which is called "ECSA Characteristics of Citizen Science - Explanation Notes". They are aimed … Continue reading Introducing: ECSA Characteristics of Citizen Science
How Does Citizen Science “Do” Governance? Reflections from the DITOs Project
This is the second post about papers in the special collection of papers in the journal “Citizen Science: Theory and Practice” was dedicated to Policy Perspectives of Citizen Science. The first paper is described in this post. It is fairly rare to be able to catch an image close to the time when a concept … Continue reading How Does Citizen Science “Do” Governance? Reflections from the DITOs Project
How Does Policy Conceptualise Citizen Science? A Qualitative Content Analysis of International Policy Documents
In early December, a special collection of papers in the journal "Citizen Science: Theory and Practice" was dedicated to Policy Perspectives of Citizen Science. I have contributed to two papers in this collection. The first one is "How Does Policy Conceptualise Citizen Science? A Qualitative Content Analysis of International Policy Documents". The paper is led by … Continue reading How Does Policy Conceptualise Citizen Science? A Qualitative Content Analysis of International Policy Documents
The role of learning in citizen science and the impact of participation inequality
From August to December I was hosted at the Centre for Research and interdisciplinarity in Paris. This short term research fellowship had a focus on learning and citizen science. The recording below is from a seminar in November 2019, titled "the role of learning in citizen science and the impact of participation inequality". The talk … Continue reading The role of learning in citizen science and the impact of participation inequality
What can we learn from analysing citizen science training materials?
As part of the EU-Citizen.Science project, UCL is leading on the training work package. This means that we coordinate the part of the platform that will help to store and share training material for citizen science projects, and generally for the field (such as the UCL online course). The stay at the Centre for Research … Continue reading What can we learn from analysing citizen science training materials?
Would you call this a citizen science activity?
This is an invitation to complete a survey that is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7XN5MQG This survey will present you stories about different forms of public participation in research. Different activities within this area of public participation in research are now called “citizen science” and we would like to hear what your opinion is about each activity. … Continue reading Would you call this a citizen science activity?
Platforms for citizen science
A CRI-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle workshop: created by Anshu (CRI long term fellow) and Simon (MNHN), from a meeting at the Galaxy community in Freiburg. I joined the design process and it was structured so the museum and the CRI present the systems that are being developed, with a scope for a discussion about lessons … Continue reading Platforms for citizen science
ActEarly – outline paper published
ActEarly is a new project, which has started in September. The project is a 5 years "city collaboratory" in Bradford and Tower Hamlets to research early promotion of good health and wellbeing. The project is part of a set of projects that are funded under the UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) scheme, which includes an alliance of … Continue reading ActEarly – outline paper published