The majority (58%) of Zooniverse projects is multi-disciplinary Most of the projects cover between 1 and 5 research areas Citizen science projects incorporate the perspectives of volunteers, practitioners, and scientists (among others) in different fields of...
"Biodiversity & Conservation” is the predominant research area on Zooniverse "Remote Sensing” plays a crucial role for research in distributed CS projects Recent studies and experience indicate that environmental sciences are a predominant research topic in the...
The aim of this report produced by the RETHINK Project is to explore how European citizens make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to do so, the project team conducted 81 in-depth interviews with citizens, during the first wave of the pandemic. You can access...
We have launched our first major international study into citizen science and need your help in encouraging as many people as possible to complete it. The purpose of this survey is to find out about people’s experiences in citizen science projects and activities...
The eagerly awaited publication "The Science of Citizen Science" is now available as as open access publication from Springer. Over 100 authors contributed to this book, including Julia Lorke and Yaela Golumbic from the CS Track project team. "This book is a wonderful...
Citizen science is an area in which interest has increased over the years. People who are not professional scientists get involved in citizen science projects with the intention of solving a question that they find to be of interest. Traditionally, scientific...
The Citizen Social Science & Complex Systems Science Workshop is a Satellite Workshop within the Conference on Complex Systems 2020 that the Complex Systems Society organises every year. This year the workshop took place online on 9 December. The URJC team led by...
Citizen.Science.org have launched an exciting new online event for the Citizen Science community called CitSciVirtual which will run throughout May 2021. Under the banner CitSciVirtual: Local, Global, Connected the organisers say that they are 'taking the best...
This report entitled Scaling up Citizen Science. What are the factors associated with increased reach and how to lever them to achieve impact is based on a theoretically grounded framework which aims to unbundle the meaning of scaling and spreading in Citizen...
CS Track partner URJC led a virtual session on 5 November as part of the XX edition of the Madrid Science and Innovation Week. The idea behind this session was to foster a better understanding of citizen science and what participation in citizen science projects...
The ACTION project is hosting an online event dedicated to CS financial sustainability on 19 November from 10:00 to 12:00 CET. This webinar includes talks with experts and success cases and provides an opportunity to discuss different sustainability options. The event...
The Citizen Science: Theory and Practice journal is planning to publish a special collection on Citizen Science in Higher Education. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal providing a central space for cross-disciplinary...
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