Co-created citizen science: challenging cultures and practice in scientific research

Gunnell, Jade Lauren; Golumbic, Yaela; Hayes, Tess; Cooper, Michelle

doi:10.22323/2.20050401

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“…However, it is important to highlight that participatory processes are time-consuming and probably more challenging due to the diverse expectations and interests of the stakeholders. Gunnell et al [2021] offer the following analysis:…”

Section: Future Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory citizen science in solar energy research: going beyond data collection to promote the energy transition

Barbosa¹,

Cañizo²,

Revuelta³

2022

JCOM

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Despite the societal relevance of energy research, there is a distinct lack of citizen science initiatives in the field. This paper reports the experience of a participatory and innovative strategy to develop a citizen science initiative for solar energy research. A number of stakeholders participated in the definition and implementation of the initiative, and tools such as surveys and a hackathon were employed. The process described aims to provide a blueprint for transforming the relationship between citizens and research into societal challenges. Here we describe the collaborative process and analyse the main opportunities, limitations and future perspectives.

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Section: Future Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory citizen science in solar energy research: going beyond data collection to promote the energy transition

Barbosa¹,

Cañizo²,

Revuelta³

2022

JCOM

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“…CS projects have thus a huge potential when it comes to the communication of science, evidence and data, as they have the opportunity to engage at very different levels with all the aforementioned stakeholders [Elorza et al, 2021;Hecker et al, 2018 , 2020;Paleco et al, 2021]. For instance, in the case of civil society, CS projects may want to increase or maintain engagement and have difficulties in reaching underrepresented groups, whereas in the case of policymakers, CS projects may need to reach them to inform public policies based on citizen-generated evidence, but encounter a lack of awareness of CS itself; other projects may want to address academics for wider acceptance of their results and find a lack of trust in their data, or be willing to reach industries to help building exploitation models, contributing to their sustainability, but find a barrier caused by a lack of a common "language" [Elorza et al, 2021;Gunnell et al, 2021].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A methodological approach to co-design citizen science communication strategies directed to quadruple-helix stakeholders

Magalhães¹,

Guasch²,

Arias³

et al. 2022

JCOM

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Citizen Science (CS) can help change the paradigm of science communication. To test this, 38 ongoing CS projects from Italy, Portugal and Spain have been selected by the H2020 NEWSERA project to act as pilots in the development of communication strategies, specifically targeting stakeholders in the quadruple helix. The projects, together with stakeholder representatives and science communication and journalism professionals participated in a series of workshops — #CitSciComm Labs — where communication strategies were co-designed, using adapted design-thinking methods. The innovative methodological approach is hereby presented and can be an inspiration for others willing to implement improved communication strategies to target different stakeholders.

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“…In fact, a recent study conducted across 125 European-based projects found the roles citizen scientists undertook in the projects were predominantly those of collaborators (Moczek et al, 2021 ). Such approaches are increasingly chosen when attention is required from both local actors and communities in order to solve place-based problems and deliver community outcomes (Gunnell et al, 2021 ; Manzoni et al, 2021 ).…”

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Developing a framework for investigating citizen science through a combination of web analytics and social science methods—The CS Track perspective

DeGroot

Golumbic

Martínez

et al. 2022

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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Over the past decade, Citizen Science (CS) has shown great potential to transform the power of the crowd into knowledge of societal value. Many projects and initiatives have produced high quality scientific results by mobilizing peoples' interest in science to volunteer for the public good. Few studies have attempted to map citizen science as a field, and assess its impact on science, society and ways to sustain its future practice. To better understand CS activities and characteristics, CS Track employs an analytics and analysis framework for monitoring the citizen science landscape. Within this framework, CS Track collates and processes information from project websites, platforms and social media and generates insights on key issues of concern to the CS community, such as participation patterns or impact on science learning. In this paper, we present the operationalization of the CS Track framework and its three-level analysis approach (micro-meso-macro) for applying analytics techniques to external data sources. We present three case studies investigating the CS landscape using these analytical levels and discuss the strengths and limitations of combining web-analytics with quantitative and qualitative research methods. This framework aims to complement existing methods for evaluating CS, address gaps in current observations of the citizen science landscape and integrate findings from multiple studies and methodologies. Through this work, CS Track intends to contribute to the creation of a measurement and evaluation scheme for CS and improve our understanding about the potential of analytics for the evaluation of CS.

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Co-created citizen science: challenging cultures and practice in scientific research

Cited by 29 publications

References 47 publications

Participatory citizen science in solar energy research: going beyond data collection to promote the energy transition

Participatory citizen science in solar energy research: going beyond data collection to promote the energy transition

A methodological approach to co-design citizen science communication strategies directed to quadruple-helix stakeholders

Developing a framework for investigating citizen science through a combination of web analytics and social science methods—The CS Track perspective

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