GIScience, Citizen Science & Environmental Information
The ECSA conference is now over, and for me, it ended with the final excursion of the citizen science day. On a lovely spring evening, we joined the coordinators of the amphibiom project at Bednar Park, observing and hearing the story of a unique green toads community that is managing to hang on in a … Continue reading ECSA 2024 reflections – policy and STS attention, turbulent futures and a celebration
The final keynote of the ECSA 2024 conference was given by Katja Mayer on "Participatory Turns: The Bumpy Roads to Recognition of Participatory Approaches in Social Sciences and Lessons for Citizen Science." The starting point is the need to consider the increase "participation" across disciplines and what participation means. She covers the participatory turns. In … Continue reading Notes from ECSA 2024 – Katja Mayer’s keynote on participatory turns in the social sciences and lesson to citizen science
Shannon titled her talk "The Challenges of Continuous Adaptation: Citizen Science for a Changing World. Shannon is leading the Open Environmental Data Project. Her thinking is done with collaboration with a lot of colleagues over the years - and recognising them. What can we contribute to citizen science in a changing world? The Mississippi and … Continue reading Notes from ECSA 2024 – keynote Shannon Doesmagen
The European Citizen Science Association is celebrating 10 years, and the bi-annual conference is dedicated to change. The opening session at the BOKU university. Opened by the rector Eva Schulev-Stiendl. She noted that citizen science is a powerful tool for democratising science. Empowering individuals and communities to be involved in science. At BOKU there is … Continue reading Notes from ECSA 2024 conference – Day 1 opening session
The colloquium on STS and Citizen Science was organised by Katja Mayer and Claudia Gobel at Vienna University. The workshop brings in the tension between being a researcher and understanding society through STS lenses about knowledge production and the way participatory research develops. The second aspect is the activities of people who are involved in … Continue reading Notes from STS and Citizen Science colloquium 02/04/2024
Last year, I've contributed to the Toposophy podcast, which is called "Common Ground". It covers a wide range of topics in urbanism and urban planning, from culture to technology. The episode that I spoke on is dedicated to direct democracy and citizen science, exploring the links between deep engagement forms of citizens in the management … Continue reading Toposophy’s “common ground” podcast episode on citizen science
The roundtable took place on 18th September 2023, at the European Commission in Brussels. The people who participated include people from research funders, people with interest at local, national and European level, people who are involved in the engagement of civil society. Policies can be at universities, municipalities, R&I organisations, national bodies and European. Georgios … Continue reading INCENTIVE/TIME4CS EU policy roundtable – institutional adoption of citizen science
At the end of May, the Citizen Science Association (CSA) celebrated its 10th year anniversary in its conference - C*Sci 2023, held at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona. The conference (22-26 May) provided the opportunity to meet face-to-face colleagues in the area of citizen science, which I haven't had a chance to talk … Continue reading C*Sci 2023 and the new name of the (US) Citizen Science Association
As part of the Swedish presidency of the European Union, an event on the 16th May focused on open science from policy to practice. The event marked the end of the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on citizen science initiatives. There are several useful outputs that were shared at this final event, with a lot of … Continue reading EU Mutual-learning exercise: citizen science – final report
Back in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, I was happy to contribute to the Post-Normal Science 5 conference (PNS5), with a presentation about the relationships between citizen science and post-normal science. Following the conference, I developed the presentation into a paper. The peer review provided robust and useful advice on how the paper … Continue reading New paper “Citizen science and Post-Normal Science’s extended peer community”
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