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What are the benefits of participatory evaluation?

  By: Step Change on Oct. 27, 2022, 10:30 a.m.

In this article, Luciano d’Andrea, Team Leader at Knowledge and Innovation about the benefits of participatory evaluation and how this approach was developed by the Step Change project https://stepchangeproject.eu/step-change-what-are-the-bene…

How to develop successful training formats and support Citizen Science projects?

  By: Step Change on Oct. 27, 2022, 10:27 a.m.

What do citizen science initiatives need from training materials and how does this influence how they are created? In this article, we asked Carmen Siller, Project Manager at ZSI what she thought. https://stepchangeproject.eu/how-to-develop-successf…

Re: Fostering the participation of citizen scientists from the very outset

  By: Step Change on Oct. 27, 2022, 10:22 a.m.

This article was written by Amalia Verzola for the StepChange website- "Step Change, fostering the participation of citizen scientists from the very outset" https://stepchangeproject.eu/step-change-fostering-the-participation-of-citizen-sc…

Time management tools

  By: Step Change on Oct. 27, 2022, 10:15 a.m.

Have you used any time management tools during a citizen science initiative, and were they useful?

Volunteer incentives

  By: Step Change on Oct. 27, 2022, 10:14 a.m.

What incentives have you used to encourage volunteers to join your citizen science initiatives, and were they successful?

Resources for robust evaluation

  By: Step Change on Oct. 27, 2022, 10:12 a.m.

Here is a page for those involved in citizen science projects to share useful resources for evaluating the impact of citizen science intiatives.

How can we ensure that Citizen Science in mutually beneficial to both the volunteers and the researchers involved?

  By: Step Change on Oct. 27, 2022, 10:10 a.m.

What approaches could citizen science projects take to ensure that volunteers feel valued and that their contributions are useful to the researchers involved?

Recruitment bias?

  By: Step Change on Oct. 27, 2022, 10:06 a.m.

Have you experienced any bias toward the type of people who participate in citizen science initiatives? And how could we combat this?

Ethical Challenges facing Citizen Science Projects

  By: Step Change on Oct. 27, 2022, 10:04 a.m.

What challenges and additional ethical considerations has your Citizen Science project faced, and how did you approach these issues?

Useful Resources for understanding Ethics and Citizen Science

  By: Step Change on Oct. 27, 2022, 9:56 a.m.

Here is a page for you to share any useful online resources or documents that could help consider the ethical aspects of citizen science.

Using the terminology of “citizen science”

  By: Step Change on Sept. 20, 2022, 10:48 a.m.

New and unfamiliar terminologies are always a challenge, and it should be carefully considered in which context to use specific expressions. “Citizen science” is already a term that needs explaining. Furthermore, there are language issues, such as t…
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