Citizen Science resources
Resources from UKEOF relating to environmental citizen science
Reports and publications
- Symposium on 'Farmers, citizen science & environmental monitoring' (13 Jan 2023)
Online event attended by over 200 people - Video recording available - Impacts of COVID-19 on environmental citizen science: Lessons learned and recommendations for the future
An analysis by UKEOF partners that explores how the response to Covid-19 has affected environmental citizen science in the UK - Workshop 'Using Social Media as a Data Source for Environmental Science' (9 Dec 2020)
Speakers' presentations - What is the future of citizen science? What is UKEOF's role?
UKEOF Citizen Science Working Group workshop report - Data management planning for citizen science
This guidance note provides specific, practical advice to citizen science practitioners about the development of data management plans to support the value of datasets from citizen science projects - Workshop report: Maximising the benefits from citizen science for monitoring the environment
Report from the UKEOF citizen science workshop held in January 2018 (Birmingham) - Citizen Science Report
UKEOF commissioned NERC's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (working with the Natural History Museum) to carry out a project looking at the role of volunteers in environmental monitoring, resulting in a report: Understanding Citizen Science and Environmental Monitoring - Motivations for citizen science: UKEOF commissioned the University of Reading, in partnership with the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York, and the University of West England to undertake a study to investigate people's motivations for citizen science. Outputs:
- Motivations for Citizen Science final report
Final report of the 'motivations' study - Motivations Leaflet (English)
Original English version of our citizen science motivations leaflet - Citizen science motivations summary leaflet (German)
German translation of our citizen science motivations summary leaflet - Video: Evaluating a citizen science project
This video explains the importance of evaluation in citizen science projects, explaining how to incorporate it into all stages of a project. It is based on the UKEOF report 'Understanding Motivations for Citizen Science' by Hilary Geoghegan, Alison Dyke, Rachel Pateman and Sarah West - What encourages and discourages citizen science participation?
A summary of the factors that either encouraged or discouraged people to take part in citizen science projects - Barriers to stakeholder participation in citizen science
The key barriers to using citizen science faced by science, policy and practice stakeholders
- Motivations for Citizen Science final report
- Costs & benefits of citizen science: UKEOF commissioned WRc plc in partnership with CEH and FERA to undertake a study towards a methodology for evaluating opportunities, costs and benefits of citizen science, resulting in a report and cost-benefit analysis tool. Outputs:
- Cost & Benefit report
Report of the costs & benefits study - Cost & Benefit Leaflet
Leaflet summarising the costs & benefits study - Cost & Benefit tool
Cost-benefit analysis tool (beta-version)
- Cost & Benefit report