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This session is an opportunity to look at how media and communications can be used to promote a CSCS project and to engage and develop the community around a project. The kinds of issues to be discussed include aspects such as understanding the purpose and audience for your project; gaining exposure from a project; communicating these types of projects effectively; engaging the press; expectation management; practical issues such as timing, use of interviewees and quotes, etc. We will have two guest presenters,…
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We are very pleased to welcome Professor Alan Irwin the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and our own Eugenia Rodrigues (STIS, CSCS network) to discuss Citizen science and scientific citizenship. In 1995, Alan Irwin published Citizen Science – A Study of People, Expertise and Sustainable Development, which advanced a notion of citizen science underpinned by the theoretical questions of STS and environmental sociology. Twenty years on, citizen science has become a well-established ‘movement’ with an array of values, strategies and exemplars associated with it. In this…
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We are delighted to invite you to our next seminar “Crowdsourcing Social History”, with Kate Lindsay (University of Oxford/Academic IT Services) and Melissa Highton (University of Edinburgh/Learning, Teaching and Web Services Division). Friday, 1st April 2016, 10.30 am – 1.00 pm, CMB (Chrystal Macmillan Building), Staff Room (6th floor), 15a George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD Kate Lindsay is an Academic IT lead from the University of Oxford with particular responsibility for education enhancement and IT services to support public engagement…
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Come and join us in welcoming Antoine Blanchard (Chargé de programmes Numérique + Transfert Mission Investissements d’avenir, University of Bordeaux) and discussing Citizen Science projects, best practices and networks with him. Antoine will be visiting the University of Edinburgh at the end of May and this is a perfect opportunity not just to introduce him to projects being carried out at UoE/by members of the network outwith the University but also to hear about Citizen Science endeavours that are taking…
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