The Citizen Science Association of Aotearoa NZ (CSAANZ) was formalised in August 2019 and holds monthly online meetings for Co-chairs and Committee members. Establishing and sustaining a new association is […]
These are undoubtebly unusual times. Although we are urged to “stay home, save lives” there are still opportunities to contribute data during the more stringent lockdown phases. This (short) blog […]
This blog is an open letter to Fish & Game NZ. The purpose? To move away from ‘chick sci’ and toward ‘cit sci’. The deliberately provocative ‘chick sci’ comments made […]
Arrivals and departures… this is the final blog of a series that summarises key themes from discussions with citizen science coordinators, visionaries, researchers, educators, movers and shakers across 4 different […]
This penultimate Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship blog describes discussions, thoughts and experiences on a 5-week research trip to Singapore and several European destinations. This blog wraps up meetings in Austria […]
Vienna marked the final stop on the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust research trip. I met with several contacts made earlier in the year at #oecsk2019 – the Austrian Citizen Science […]
This is the second blog post from Berlin which delves into the structure of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), the Bürger schaffen Wissen network and evolving pan-European citizen science […]
Berlin was the second to last stop on the 5-week itinerary, selected because it is where the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) is based. ECSA is currently hosted by the […]
This second London blog investigates the community-led London Hackspace and summarises a meeting with the University College of London-supported London Prosperity Initiative. The purpose of these visits was to see […]
I returned to the UK for a couple of days in London to meet with colleagues at University College, give myself a crash course in DIY bio-labs and see how […]
