Citizen Science support and training

Discover tools, training, and guidance to help you plan and deliver impactful citizen science projects.

Support resources

The team at the UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship have gathered a growing collection of resources to support the planning, development, and delivery of citizen science projects. The UCL Citizen Science Support Resources hub offers a wide range of tools, training, guidance and examples - particularly valuable for those new to citizen science, but useful at every stage of a project.

Here are a few selected resources to get you started:

• Open@UCL - stay up to date with news, project updates, and reflections from the UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship. Type “citizen science” in the 'Search the blog' box for citizen science related posts.
• Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing: An Introduction - a short online course introducing the core ideas and methods behind citizen science.
• Citizen Science: How Ordinary People Are Changing the Face of Discovery - Caren Cooper's compelling book exploring the impact of citizen science through real-world examples. 
  (Available to UCL staff and students via UCL Explore (login required.)

The full collection is available in ReadingLists@UCL and can be explored by theme:

• Getting started with citizen science
• Planning and designing a citizen science project
• Engaging participants
• Managing data
• Communication
• Citizen Science platforms
• Our favourite Citizen Science projects from around the world
• Books about Citizen Science
• Blogs and news

If any of the links do not work, please use the "Table of Contents" in the reading list to navigate directly to your desired section.

Created in collaboration with the UCL citizen science community, this collection is updated regularly to remain current, inclusive, and useful.

We would love to hear from you - please get in touch if you have any feedback or would like to suggest additional content.