Designing for Citizen Science in the Global North and South

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About the lecture:
This talk will discuss citizen science initiatives from around the globe. It will explain how citizen science is currently being utilised in the global North and South to benefit local populations and it will showcase examples (from the recent book “Geographic Citizen Science Design: No one left behind” by UCL Press) of interaction barriers and design considerations, which need to be considered to ensure their success.

Although citizen science is currently increasingly popular in mainly the Western world, there is still a significant number of people who are completely unaware that these opportunities exist and how they can benefit from them because they are marginalised or completely excluded from existing scientific conservations or other types of projects. Despite the existence of digital and the other socio-economic divides, everyone’s knowledge, skills, efforts and, most importantly, everyone’s voice is equally important, not only in advancing science but also in the context of environmental governance and sustainable development, which are major themes within citizen science.  

With UCL preparing to launch a new campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford in east London, this lunch hour lecture series brings together speakers to discuss some of the research that will be taking place at our UCL East campus, which will begin opening from September 2022, offering exciting new degrees in cutting edge new UCL schools and centres.