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 …

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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. …

Citizen Science 2019: Engagement, Participation, and Research session

The session on engagement, participation and research was made of several talks. Here is the summary of some of the talks in the session, Bridging the research-practice gap: Highlights and lessons learned from integrating citizen science practice and educational research » Lucy Robinson1, Heidi Ballard2, Rebecca Johnson3, Alison Young3, Lila Higgins4, Christothea Herodotou5, Julia Lorke1, Annie Miller3, …

British Ecological Society & Société Française d’Ecologie meeting, Lille (Day 1)

The British Ecological Society (BES) & Société Française d’Ecologie meeting organised their annual meetings to be a joint meeting, held in Lille 9-12 December. Over the past 5 years, my journey in citizen science gave me an opportunity to reconnect to ecology, a topic in which I was interested in during my high-school years. I was …

Mapping Perceptions around UCL

Next week, I am starting a project that will explore perception mapping at UCL and in the physical neighbourhood of it. The project was awarded as part of the UCL Public Engagement Unit Innovation Seed Fund and it is part of the wider activities of UCL's Beacon for Public Engagement. In this specific project (announced …