Creativity and learning comes from the edgy of citizen science.

1. #CSS14
Creative life of #citizenscience
@erinmaochu

2. …the sunflower is mine…
Van Gogh 1880

3. 1. Crowdsource number patterns in nature dataset
2. Engage 3000 people from Greater Manchester
3. Learn about Turing & how number patterns work in sunflowers
4. Provide a media story

4. www.turingsunflowers.com

9. What did people do?
http://bit.ly/ZL3sSd
http://www.Sallyfort.com

10. Cross Platform Behaviour
http://bit.ly/1aZHPgA

11. Open Voice Community Choir

12. Lessons Learned
Build Community
Key partnerships
Support contributors
Provide learning resources
Recognise contributions
Opportunity
Post-disciplinary research
Extend reach & demographics
Build audience & content
Promotes learning

17. “If we work together in the garden,
maybe we can work together in crisis…. Dig In!”
Wendy Brawer

20. Music Cognition Group

21. Hookedonmusic.co.uk

29. www.hookedonmusic.co.uk

30. Edgy #citizenscience
Working at the 'edge’ – making use of resources through collaboration (Carolyn Kagan, 2007)

31. http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/

33. www.albinomosquito.com

35. www.artisopensource.net

39. Available online: www.ukeof.org.uk
http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/about/ethics/resources

40. References
Cagan, K (2007) Working at the Edge, Psychologist, Vol 20, part 4, pp224 - 227
http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=20&editionID=146&ArticleID=1172
Roy, H.E., Pocock, M.J.O., Preston, C.D., Roy, D.B., Savage, J., Tweddle, J.C. & Robinson, L.D. (2012)
Understanding Citizen Science & Environmental Monitoring. Final Report. NERC Centre for Ecology &
Hydrology and Natural History Museum on behalf of UK-EOF. 175pp
http://www.ceh.ac.uk/news/news_archive/citizen-science-review-guide_2012_59.html
Tweddle, J.C., Robinson, L.D., Pocock, M.J.O & Roy, H.E. (2012). Guide to
citizen science: developing, implementing and evaluating citizen science to
study biodiversity and the environment in the UK. Natural History Museum
and NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology for UK-EOF.
http://www.ceh.ac.uk/news/news_archive/citizen-science-review-guide_2012_59.html
Riesch H, Potter C and Davies, L (2013) Combining citizen science with public engagement: the open air
laboratories programme. Journal of Science Communication 1 – 18; http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/12/34/JCOM1203%282013%29A03/JCOM1203%282013%29A03.pdf
Frietag, A, Pfeffer, M.J. (2013) Process, not product: Investigating Recommendations for improving Citizen
Science "Success". PLoS ONE 8(5): e64079. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064079
Banks, S. (et al) (2013) 'Everyday ethics in community-based participatory research', in Contemporary Social
Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences

41. www.slideshare.com/erinmaochu