Find out about College expertise on the subject of citizen science. Citizen Science is the involvement of the non-academic public in the process of scientific research - whether community-driven research or global investigations (citizescience.org). Citizens do scientifc work - often working together with experts or scientific institutions. They support the collection, analysis or description of research data and make a valuable contribution to science. FOSTER Open Science Training Handbook For more information on citizen science, please see the Library's page on participatory research Outwith: Participatory Research and the Library CMVM Public Engagement with Research Public engagement with research (PEwR) is a term used to describe the many ways that bring together the public and research. Public engagement can take place at any point in the research process: involving the public before the research begins to shape the research question, during the research process, or at the end to feed back on findings and work out how the findings of research can be applied.The CMVM Public Engagement with Research SharePoint has more information on how PEwR is used in CMVM. CMVM Public Engagement with Research SharePoint (requires UoE login) CMVM publications on the topic of citizen science Names in bold denote CMVM authors2023Alastair Macrae, co-author with Rita Ribeiro and others: Linking human tick bite risk with tick abundance in the envhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.102109cironment: a novel approach to quantify tick bite risk using orienteers in Scotland - article in Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases2021Linda J Birkin, Eleftheria Vasileiou and Helen Stagg: Citizen science in the time of COVID-19 – editorial in Thorax2020Sonja Erikainen and Ellen Stewart: Credibility Contests: Media Debates on Do-It-Yourself Coronavirus Responses and the Role of Citizens in Health Crises – article in Frontiers in Sociology If you are a CMVM-affiliated author and would like your research on citizen science to be featured on this page, please get in touch at CMVMopenaccess@ed.ac.uk. This article was published on 2024-09-09
