Citizen led social innovation - Open University seminar
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In the face of global challenges, what is the role of citizen-led social innovations? How does academia need to change in order to support this approach?
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- 1. #kmiou: Citizen-led social innovation: re-booting academia @erinmaochu
- 3. Definitions/ Approaches #citizenscience Public participation in science, usually unpaid, by groups & individuals Citizen science, valuable approach to scientific discovery for monitoring the environment (Roy et al, 2013) Working at the 'edge’ – making use of resources through collaboration (Carolyn Kagan, 2007)
- 5. 1. Crowdsource number patterns in nature dataset 2. Engage 3000 people from Greater Manchester 3. Learn about Turing & how number patterns work in sunflowers 4. Provide media stories
- 6. Media Reach: 62.8Million User generated content views: (images & video): 124,248 Event attendees: 3046 (80% from Greater Manchester) Email registrations: 28% from Greater Manchester Sunflowers pledged: 12,000 (35% from Greater Manchester) Other Blogs: 40 Countries: data from 7 countries; pledges from 22
- 9. What did people do? http://bit.ly/ZL3sSd http://www.Sallyfort.com
- 10. Open Voice Community Choir Open Voice Community Choir
- 20. Ethical challenges 1. Partnership, collaboration and power 2. Blurring the boundaries between researcher and researched, academic and activist 3. Community rights, conflict and democratic representation 4. Ownership and dissemination of data, findings and publications 5. Anonymity, privacy and confidentiality 6. Institutional ethical review processes Banks, S. (et al) (2013)
- 21. Everyday Ethics An approach to research that is based on a commitment to sharing power and resources and working towards beneficial outcomes for all participants, especially ‘communities.’ Embedded in the research process: attitudes, ethos, ways of working, relationships 1. Mutual respect 2. Equality and inclusion 3. Democratic participation 4. Active learning 5. Making a difference 6. Collective action 7. Personal integrity Banks, S. (et al) (2013)
- 22. References Cagan, K (2007) Working at the Edge, Psychologist, Vol 20, part 4, pp224 - 227 http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=20&editionID=146&ArticleID=1172 Roy, H.E., Pocock, M.J.O., Preston, C.D., Roy, D.B., Savage, J., Tweddle, J.C. & Robinson, L.D. (2012) Understanding Citizen Science & Environmental Monitoring. Final Report. NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Natural History Museum on behalf of UK-EOF. 175pp http://www.ceh.ac.uk/news/news_archive/citizen-science-review-guide_2012_59.html Tweddle, J.C., Robinson, L.D., Pocock, M.J.O & Roy, H.E. (2012). Guide to citizen science: developing, implementing and evaluating citizen science to study biodiversity and the environment in the UK. Natural History Museum and NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology for UK-EOF. http://www.ceh.ac.uk/news/news_archive/citizen-science-review-guide_2012_59.html Riesch H, Potter C and Davies, L (2013) Combining citizen science with public engagement: the open air laboratories programme. Journal of Science Communication 1 – 18; http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/12/34/JCOM1203%282013%29A03/JCOM1203%282013%29A03.pdf Frietag, A, Pfeffer, M.J. (2013) Process, not product: Investigating Recommendations for improving Citizen Science "Success". PLoS ONE 8(5): e64079. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064079 Banks, S. (et al) (2013) 'Everyday ethics in community-based participatory research', in Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences
Editor's Notes
- Sunflowers are amazing – they purify the air and the soil and they attract bees... scientists, teachers, & the planet would agree, sunflowers are an incredible resource. I’m Erinma – based at the University of Manchester in Life Sciences – I trained originally as a neuroscientist - & Engagement Fellow supported by The Wellcome Trust.
- Add images of games, experiments, mobile etc from the poster
- Last year MOSI ran Turing’s Sunflowers, a citizen science project to explore Alan Turing’s unfinished experiment exploring number patterns in sunflowers. Core partners: MOSI, MSF, University of Manchester and Manchester City Council
- The Turing’s Sunflowers project team. Professor Jonathan Swinton, Computation Biologist came up with the idea and approached Natalie Ireland at MOSI as director of Manchester Science Festival. Science communicator and digital producer, Dr Erinma Ochu, produced the project working with Natalie, Jonathan & a range of other partners. These figures show the scope for wider participation in terms of events outside of Greater Manchester. For our next citizen science project, Hooked, we want to better involve other Science Museum Group venues.
- Additional partners that put on events, spread the word and supported the project. Key to the social media strategy was the partnership with BBC Outreach… who helped us with the crowdsourcing campaign.
- Just a few examples of what people did, and not just digital…. Artists’ spear fish were inspired by TS to create a giant baby with a sunflower headress for the day parade
- The final evaluation by sally fort revealed what people did… and they didn’t just grow sunflowers… alongside the media reach of the project, social sharing and contributions through events, blogging and giving talks and creating learning resources was critical to success.
- Choir sung a specially composed fibonacci song so people could hear what the number patterns sounded like
- Hello, I’m Erinma and in the spirit of Tedx City. I’m going share stories of social innovation that spread from everyday folk in three cities, Manchester, Sheffield and New York & now Leeds. I’m going to talk about the tools, techniques we used- and what we learned from city to city. Now my background is in neuroscience. And, whilst it’s a bit of an imaginative leap to go from exploring how the brain works to urban food growing, these topics and not completely unrelated. How many people here live in cities? There’s growing evidence that people that live in urban areas are more likely to suffer from mental health challenges How many of you live near a park or garden? There’s also evidence to suggest that green space in cities contributes out mental wellbeing – just looking at nature is good for us. Now how many of you know you next door neighbour by name, two neighbours, three neighbours, five? More than five? Where do you live? If you ever move to xxxx you need to know this lady…. But there’s hope for those who don’t know your neighbours or live near green spaces because, Everyday Growing, the project I am going to share with you today is all about how to get started. I’m, also a filmmaker and my role on the project, was to share stories through making a film with Caroline, who’s here actually.
- Participants walked around Old Trafford in Manchester, taking photos and recording vital statistics, such as aspect, water supply, security, and surface materials, for any site they thought could be used for food growing,. Sites identified included ginnels, grassed over areas, derelict plots and unloved nooks ad crannies.
- To map growing spaces in Old Trafford, we used crowdmap – an open source platform by Ushahidi – often used for mapping crisis around the world. In Old Trafford, 26 people found 82 sites over 2 walks where food could be grown in land totalling around 5.2 acres. That’s a lot of space for a lot of vegetables and potentially quite a few jobs could be created to farm the land. One of the things that Farida wondered as a research was what synergy there might be between the open data community and the grow your own community – both have this perspective of a commons – shared land, shared resources – In Sheffield.. They used google map – here’s the map of their walk…
- Thanks to all the partners & to Imran/ farida for inviting me to speak
- Tweddle, J.C., Robinson, L.D., Pocock, M.J.O & Roy, H.E. (2012). Guide to citizen science: developing, implementing and evaluating citizen science to study biodiversity and the environment in the UK. Natural History Museum and NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology for UK-EOF. Cohn, JP (2008) Citizen Science: Can Volunteers Do Real Research? BioScience 58: 192-197. Frietag, A, Pfeffer, M.J. (2013) Process, not product: Investigating Recommendations for improving Citizen Science "Success". PLoS ONE 8(5): e64079. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064079