Participatory & Citizen Science

The Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences provides many resources for project management.

The toolkit aims to help project leaders understand their role as data handlers in identifying, satisfying, and/or balancing ethical obligations of a project to participants, partners, science, and society.

Provides a brief analysis of platforms for hosting participatory science projects.

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice (CSTP) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed publication focused on the global field of citizen science and other participatory sciences. It provides a venue to share and advance related theories and practices, and serves those interested in and contributing to citizen science across all disciplines, including scientists, educators, community organizers, evaluators, information technologists, and resource managers.

This NASEM report "discusses the potential of citizen science to support science learning and ... lays out a research agenda that can fill gaps in the current understanding of how citizen science can support science learning and enhance science education."

To nurture collaboration between the federal government and the public to advance inclusive participation in scientific discovery and research. Projects listed in the catalog are validated by federal employees.

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A platform for "people-powered" research that connects professional researchers with volunteers worldwide.

The authors "present an evidence-based engagement approach for listening to citizen scientist participants and incorporating their input into science processes and products that can be retrofitted onto existing citizen science projects or integrated from a project’s inception."