Working Group 6

WG6 Leaders

ENLIGHTENme | RECETAS

Scope

This working group will focus on: a) how to involve citizens in urban health and well-being research and b) how citizen-oriented research impacts professional research and analysis. Working group meetings will therefore develop a conversation about their various methodologies for involving citizens in their research, including problems and constraints; and reflect on ways in which this input has (or has not) contributed to expert knowledge. The objective is to learn from these experiences and potentially produce either case studies or guidelines for urban citizen science for inclusion on the cluster website.

A further topic addressed by this WG and closely linked with the citizen science issues is ethics.  To this end, this WG aims at fostering discourse and developing resources to support integrity, responsibility, and ethics in the conduct of citizen science research and practice. The following actions will be carried out:

• • Chart the landscape of ethical issues across the spectrum of citizen science.
  • Raise awareness among the greater research community about unique ethical challenges in citizen science and the need for training in ethics.
  • Increase the capacity to provide resources and training in ethics to researchers, citizen science leaders, and citizen scientists.