Citizen Science

1. Maria G. Mandourari

2.  What is Citizen Science
 Advantages of Citizen Science
 Disadvantages of Citizen
Science
 Recommendations

3. Volunteers / non-professional scientists
 Crowd-sourcing & Crowd-funding
Crowd Science
 Crowd-sourced Science
 Civic Science
 Networked Science
 “Public participation in scientific
research.”(Hand, E., 2010)

4.  General public engagement
 Citizens actively contribute to science :
i. Intellectual effort or surrounding
knowledge
ii. Tools and resources
 Experimental data & facilities for
researchers
 Raise new questions
 Co-create a new scientific culture

5. New learning & skills
Deeper understanding

6. Open
 Networked
 Trans-disciplinary
Science
Society
Policy

7. Democratic research
 Evidence-informed decision making

8. 1. Consultation
2. Collaboration
3. Lay control

9. 18th century
 New large-scale surveys
Advances in data storage
 Web technology
 Social networking
technologies

10.  Political mandate
Pursuit of ‘better’ research

12. Scientific researchers
 Volunteers
 STEM educators
 Society

13. Public involvement :
 Purposeful
 Opportunistic
 Indirect

14. Obtaining
public’s views
quickly
Some people
find it
frustrating

15. • Assessing
research
participants
• More active in
disseminating
research
results

16.  Reaching marginalized groups
 Addressing questions that researchers may not
consider important
 Developing research skills among lay people and
the professionals with whom they work
 Greater commitment from public organizations to
disseminate research findings
 Researchers to hand over the ownership of a
project

17. Recognize volunteers as research
collaborators
Encourage development of citizen science
projects
Develop an understanding of how to
“calibrate” user contributions into science
data.
Study who participates in Citizen Science
and what motivates them

18. Most appropriate for Citizen Science
 Pilot activities
 Assess:
what
how

19. Develop resources
maximize learning

20.  "Finalizing a Definition of "Citizen Science" and
"Citizen Scientists"". OpenScientist.
 Hand, E. (2010). "Citizen science: People power".
Nature 466 (7307): 685–687.
 Kyba, Christopher C. M.; Wagner, Janna M.; Kuechly,
Helga U.; Walker, Constance E.; Elvidge, Christopher
D.; Falchi, Fabio; Ruhtz, Thomas; Fischer, Jürgen;
Hölker, Franz (NaN undefined NaN). "Citizen
Science Provides Valuable Data for Monitoring Global
Night Sky Luminance". Scientific Reports 3.
Bibcode:2013NatSR...3E1835K. doi:10.1038/srep01835.

21.  Citizen Sky: http://www.citizensky.org/
 Oliver, S. R., Rees, R. W., Clarke-Jones, L., Milne, R.,
Oakley, A. R., Gabbay, J., Stein, K., Buchanan, P. and
Gyte, G. (2008), A multidimensional conceptual
framework for analysing public involvement in health
services research. Health Expectations, 11: 72–84.
 M. Jordan Raddick, Georgia Bracey, Karen Carney,
Geza Gyuk,Kirk Borne, John Wallin, Suzanne Jacoby
(2009), Citizen Science: Status and Research
Directions for the Coming Decade
nationalacademies.org