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Stakeholders in environmental citizen science and the benefits of partnership

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posted on 2023-02-06, 13:44 authored by Catherine Wilson

The voices of stakeholders in citizen science have often been neglected within the academic literature. This research addresses facilitator stakeholders who have the expertise to support citizen science growth as well as advocate citizen science in a range of fields, particularly policy, academia, industry and education. Qualitative methods were used to interview UK citizen science stakeholders about their opinions and experiences of working in partnership with other stakeholder groups. The interviews of 26 stakeholders were analysed using template thematic analysis. The interviewees identified 22 different stakeholder groups that they partnered with and recognised collaboration as important for their citizen science project to achieve its full potential. Benefits associated with collaborations revolve around five categories: project management, sharing of information, leading positive change, creating connections and advertisement of the organisation. This research should be seen as an introduction to wider stakeholder collaboration in citizen science projects and a recognition of the need for further research on this topic.

Funding

National Environmental Research Council (NERC) through the Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA)

History

School

  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Department

  • Geography and Environment

Published in

Proceedings of Engaging Citizen Science Conference 2022 — PoS(CitSci2022)

Source

Engaging Citizen Science Conference 2022 (CitSci2022)

Publisher

Sissa Medialab

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© The Author

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Sissa Medialab under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2022-12-15

Copyright date

2022

Book series

Proceedings of Science; volume 418

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Gitte Kragh; Kristian H. Nielsen

Location

Aarhus, Denmark

Event dates

25th April 2022 - 26th April 2022

Depositor

Catherine Wilson. Deposit date: 3 February 2023

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