Citizen-led perspectives: bridging the gap@erinmaochu #EFA14 #citizenscience

www.wellcome.ac.uk/

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites

Professor Muki Haklay, Extreme Citizen Science GroupUniversity College London Haklay M 2013

Policy relevance

Typology & history

Cost effectiveness

Improved productivity

Quality assurance measures

Maintaining engagement

Making best use of data

Wentworth 2014

Constructing scientific communities: http://conscicom.org

http://www.hmpdacc.org

@citizenbrains www.thegreatbrainexperiment.com

@eye_wire http://eyewire.org

Crowdsourcing neuroscience

And many others, see #citizenscience

Genes in Space: spotting patterns in genetic information from tumourshttp://www.cancerresearchuk.org/support-us/play-to-cure-genes-in-space

http://upmic.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/science-levels.png

Can volunteers do real research? What about the data quality?

Can volunteers do real research? What about the data quality?

Help! I am not trained to do this as a scientist.

Help! I am not trained to do this as a scientist.

Social vs scientific valueCommunity Building

Awareness & Stewardship

Recognition of citizen participation

Cost effectiveness

Improved productivity

Quality assurance measures

Maintaining engagement

Making best use of data

Freitag 2013 & Tweddle et al 2012

Edgy #citizenscience

Working at the 'edge’ – making use of resources through collaboration (Carolyn Kagan, 2007)

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 a media story

www.turingsunflowers.com

What did people do?

http://www.Sallyfort.com http://bit.ly/ZL3sSd

Novelty vs Utility

www.catalystproject.org.ukWhittle et al 2012; Stock et al 2013

http://everydaygrowingcultures.org

Carolyn Kagan 2007

Fostering an ecological edge

Innovative communication

Lance Weiler http://www.lanceweiler.com

Story, Design, Interaction

Lance Weiler http://www.lanceweiler.com

Social vs scientific value

Principles•1. Mutual respect•2. Equality and inclusion•3. Democratic participation•4. Active learning•5. Making a difference•6. Collective action•7. Personal integrity

Professor Sarah Banks, Durham University http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/about/ethics/resources

Everyday Ethics

Guide to citizen science & when and how to use citizen sciencehttp://www.ceh.ac.uk/products/publications/understanding-citizen-science.html

Recommendations

1.Beyond Borders- Partnerships- Post-disciplinary- Commons- Access to all

2. Skills & Training- Big data & little data- Design, Visualisation & Gaming- Engagement

3. Social Innovation- Pressing social needs- community building & civic action- recognising citizen participation

erinma.ochu@manchester.ac.uk

ReferencesCagan, 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 tocitizen science: developing, implementing and evaluating citizen science tostudy biodiversity and the environment in the UK. Natural History Museumand 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/12/3-4/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

Wentworth J (2014) Environmental Citizen Science – POST Note

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/briefing-papers/POST-PN-476/environmental-citizen-science

Haklay M (2012) Citizen Science and Volunteered Geographic Information: Overview and Typology of Participation. Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge pp 105-122 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-4587-2_7

Science Communication Unit, University of the West of England, Bristol (2014). Science for Environment Policy In-depth Report: Social Innovation and the Environment. Report produced for the European Commission DG Environment, February 2014. Available at:

http://ec.europa.eu/science-environment-policy

Fort S (2012) Independent evaluation of the Turing’s Sunflower project. http://bit.ly/ZL3sSd

Whittle, J, Ochu E, Ferrario, M.A, Southern, J.and McNally R (2012) Beyond research in the wild: Citizen-led research as a

model for innovation in the Digital Economy. Presented at Digital Economy Conference 2012. Aberdeen University. http://bit.ly/1pZPRB5

Stock, Ruth Maria, Pedro Oliveira and Eric von Hippel (2013) “Impacts of Hedonic and Utilitarian Motives on the Novelty and Utility of User-Developed Innovations.” MIT Sloan School of Management working paper (SSRN) http://evhippel.mit.edu/papers/section-1/