The NZ Garden Bird Survey: Why do we love birds so much?
Google “Why do we love birds so much?” and of all offerings this one pretty much sums it up: “Any answer is correct”. Responses meander across scientific, technical, creative, aesthetic […]
Google “Why do we love birds so much?” and of all offerings this one pretty much sums it up: “Any answer is correct”. Responses meander across scientific, technical, creative, aesthetic […]
Over the last few months, I’ve been working on a research project for a national charity on volunteer incentives, in other words, encouraging volunteers to contribute for the longer-term and […]
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 […]
The term ‘hub’ has been used a lot over the last year. As projects increase in complexity and more groups and individuals become involved across a landscape, better infrastructure is […]
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 […]
The third stop on the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust research trip was northern Germany. The following summarises the two-day Forum Citizen Science event – the fourth to run so far. […]
Oxford is a hub of citizen science with various societies, research programmes and initiatives run by NGOs underway. However, the ‘term citizen science’ is used in some contexts and not […]
This second blog from Singapore summarises conversations with representatives from two environmental NGOs. The conversations raised an important point: in Singapore, people’s relationship to nature differs markedly compared to a […]
The first destination on the 5-week Winston Churchill Memorial Trust-funded research trip was Singapore. It’s a city I’ve been to before – it’s a convenient stop-over en route to Europe. […]