0202407220511

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Improving Citizen Science to Benefit Society: A Discussion Paper Description: The Australian Citizen Science Association are writing a discussion paper which aims to identify and strengthen linkages between citizen science and university research to benefit society. In particular, we want to explore how to improve citizen science outcomes and applications, by supporting connections between citizen science programs and early-to-mid-career researchers in Australia. The Australian Citizen Science Association partnered with the Australian Academy of Science’s Theo Murphy Initiative (Australia) and identified that supporting Early to Mid-Career Researchers (EMCRs) in citizen science will help build such partnerships and advance citizen science in Australia and beyond. The Australian Citizen Science Association put out a public Expression of Interest for a project management role, and selected to partner with the charity Science for All to complete this project.
STARDIT ID: 0202407220511
Dates

State completed
Start 2024-07-22
End 2025-10-16
Form updated 2025-10-13

Aims
identify and strengthen linkages between citizen science and university research to benefit society.
explore how to improve citizen science outcomes and applications, by supporting connections between citizen science programs and early-to-mid-career researchers in Australia
co-produce a peer-reviewed open access discussion paper
Keywords
citizen science
Australian Citizen Science Association
open access
co-produced
Category
research

Inputs

individual

Jack Nunn (link)


ID: 0000-0003-0316-3254
Task: Lead author and project coordinator | directed Science for All | led collaborative process with ACSA Management Committee
Method: formal working group
Recruitment: Expression of interest
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: other(Paid by Science for All; volunteer Director of Science for All; volunteer member of STARDIT Steering Committee)
organisation

Australian Citizen Science Association (link)


Task: Overseeing and supporting the co-production of the discussion paper
Recruitment: public expression of interest advertised
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: other(Project managed with funding support from Theo Murphy Initiative (Australia))
organisation

Theo Murphy Initiative (Australia) (link)


Task: Project guidance and funding support – administered by the Australian Academy of Science
Compensation: other
organisation

Science for All (link)


Task: Facilitated collaborative process and development of Discussion Paper
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: paid
Declared interests: Paid AUD 5500 for project completion
individual

Håkon da Silva Hyldmo (link)


ID: 0000-0002-7514-6878
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contributing to shared documents, completing/checking STARDIT reports, writing up case studies, analysing qualitative and quantitative data
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Lauren McKnight (link)


ID: 0000-0002-7843-5886
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contributing to shared documents, analysing qualitative data
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Heather McCulloch (link)


ID: 0009-0009-0065-3654
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents, completing/checking STARDIT reports, writing case studies, analysing qualitative and quantitative data, tracking organisations and people, documenting best practice examples
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Jennifer Lavers (link)


ID: 0000-0001-7596-6588
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents, completing/checking STARDIT reports, human ethics
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Julie Old (link)


ID: 0000-0002-2754-7757
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents, completing/checking STARDIT reports, writing case studies
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Laura Smith (link)


ID: 0000-0003-3800-1247
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents, analysing qualitative data, editing
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Nicola Grobler (link)


ID: 0000-0003-0015-4467
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents, completing/checking STARDIT reports, writing case studies
Method: acknowledged contributor
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Cheryl Tan Kay Yin (link)


ID: 0000-0003-0015-4467
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, analysing qualitative and quantitative data
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Wing Yan Chan (link)


ID: 0000-0001-9875-6903
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents, completing/checking STARDIT reports, writing case studies
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Candice Raeburn (link)


ID: 0000-0002-6174-6207
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents, analysing qualitative data
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Nittya S. M. Simard (link)


ID: 0000-0003-3093-8430
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, analysing qualitative data
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Adam Kingsley Smith (link)


ID: 0002-4863-485X
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents, writing case studies, analysing quantitative data
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Sam Van Holsbeeck (link)


ID: 0000-0001-5022-8036
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents, completing/checking STARDIT reports
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Eleanor Drinkwater (link)


ID: 0000-0002-5273-4298
Task: Co-author | contribution to shared documents
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Kit Prendergast (link)


ID: 0000-0002-1164-6099
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents, completing/checking STARDIT reports, editing
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Emma Burrows (link)


ID: 0000-0002-9262-3971
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents, initial project shaping
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Christopher Lawson (link)


ID: 0000-0001-5150-6560
Task: Co-author | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents, completing/checking STARDIT reports, writing case studies, analysing qualitative and quantitative data, writing and editing drafts
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Misty Neilson (link)


ID: 0009-0003-3007-8140
Task: Supporter | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents, completing/checking STARDIT reports, writing case studies
Method: acknowledged contributor
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Janelle Bowden (link)


ID: 0000-0003-3993-5551
Task: Supporter | acknowledged in paper
Method: acknowledged supporter
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Jennifer Loder (link)


ID: 0000-0003-3910-5646
Task: Supporter | supporting project management
Method: acknowledged supporter
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Aslina Baharum (link)


ID: 0000-0003-3910-5646
Task: Supporter | attending meetings, completing/checking STARDIT reports
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
individual

Caren Queiroz Souza (link)


ID: 0000-0002-9692-3496
Task: Supporter | attending meetings, contribution to shared documents
Method: collaborative authorship process
Communication: emails, shared online collaborative documents, text-based online discussion platforms (including Whatsapp), video calls
Compensation: volunteer
funding

(link)


5500 (AUD)

This project is supported through funding from the Theo Murphy Initiative (Australia) administered by the Australian Academy of Science
time

(link)


1385 hours

This project was supported through the voluntary work of multiple co-authors. Volunteers involved estimated that they volunteered a total of 1385 hours on this project
Ethics approver
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet / Fakultet for samfunns- og utdanningsvitenskap (SU) / Institutt for geografi og sosialantropologi
ID: Reference number 107069

Outputs and impacts

publication/report/document
State: Prospective
Discussion paper published as a report for the Australian Citizen Science Association (not peer-reviewed)

Impact: Supporting connections between citizen science programs and early-to-mid-career researchers in Australia
publication/report/document
State: Completed
Stage: Preprint online
Open access peer-reviewed discussion paper published from adapted version of the report for the Australian Citizen Science Association (link)


Currently under peer review
dataset (open)
State: Completed
The full dataset of the redacted qualitative data is available on the Open Science Framework (link)

Findability: Shared on the Open Science Framework
Accessibility: Open Science Framework
Accessibility (URL): https://osf.io/wbv9s
Interoperability (format): CSV
Reusability (license): Creative Commons 4.0
publication/report/document
State: Completed
17 STARDIT reports about other projects were created as part of this project (link)

STARDIT report information

STARDIT report authors
Jack Nunn (link)
0000-0003-0316-3254
info@scienceforall.world
Lead author and project coordinator

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