Hello everyone, Please consider the job opportunity described in the email below. An excellent opportunity to study citizen science in the course of a PhD.
Feel free to forward to anyone you might feel fit the description. All the best, Pieter van Boheemen waag society || www.waag.org || sint antoniesbreestraat 69 || 1011 hb amsterdam || the netherlands || +31 614153298 || skype pieter.van.boheemen Van: "Mel Woods" <[email protected]> Verzonden: Vrijdag 11 maart 2016 16:10:17 Onderwerp: Funded studentship 'Co-creating Citizen Science for Innovation' at DJCAD, University of Dundee I'd be very grateful if you could share this opportunity with your networks, many thanks, Mel! Please find below details of a funded studentship at DJCAD, University of Dundee The deadline for applications is Friday, March 25, 2016 Applications are invited for a PhD studentship on 'Co-creating Citizen Science for Innovation'. The studentship it is directly linked to two H2020 projects that provide rich opportunities for engagement with communities of practice and interest. The first, ‘Making Sense’ is a H2020 Collective Awareness Platform ICT10a, currently underway, for which Mel Woods is PI and Prof Ioan Fazey is Co-I. The second, a substantial award to be announced shortly is led by University of Dundee in the area of Citizen Science and Sensing. Under the supervision of Mel Woods (main PI), and Prof Ioan Fazey (Co-I) the projects bring together experts from WAAG Society, IAAC, United Nations FAO, Met Office, FutureEverything, Starlab, IIASA, James Hutton Institute and Parrot and many more. Project Description: During the past 5 years, Citizen Observatories (CO) have emerged, led by the European Commission, with the aim of addressing critical environmental challenges [1]. The vision of CO’s centres on the benefits that participatory citizen science and low cost sensing technologies can offer multiple stakeholders including citizens themselves. Currently, the dominant model of citizen science is contributory (observing and collecting data) however several bodies of theory suggest that the impacts of collaborative (data collection, project refining, disseminating) and co-created models (co-design and co-production of projects) have the potential to support collective intelligence.At the same timewe know that knowledge exchange and diversity matter in collaborative situations, and that discovery, invention and innovation are more likely to arise when people of different backgrounds work together. The impact of collaborative and co-created citizen science projects, therefore, is the potential to transform the collective experience and the capacity of science, as well as address governance, decision making, innovation and transformation for critical environmental challenges. This PhD is focused on the the vision to move from a ‘contributory’ to a ‘co-created’ model of citizen science (Bonney 2009) [2], and will work with H2020 projects to help define opportunities and challenges as well as evaluate this transition. It will interrogate which conditions and approaches support 1) specific participatory practices critical for issue and question definition, expert, local and situation-specific knowledge, data analysis as well as, 2) innovations arising, be they technology, scientific, or social. The student will have access to citizen science campaigns, participants and datasets, and will use observations and ethnographic methods to analyse activities and outcomes. In return the PhD will make a contribution to defining Citizen Science resources for education (MOOC) through toolkits that are being developed that will lead to the sustainability of the projects in the long term. References: [1] European Commission (2013) ‘Demonstrating the concept of ’Citizen Observatories’. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/396-sc5-17-2015.html<https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=73646&type=184&DID=2507&url=https%3a%2f%2fec.europa.eu%2fresearch%2fparticipants%2fportal%2fdesktop%2fen%2fopportunities%2fh2020%2ftopics%2f396-sc5-17-2015.html>(Accessed: 13 February 2016) [2] Bonney, Rick, Caren B. Cooper, Janis Dickinson, Steve Kelling, Tina Phillips, Kenneth V. Rosenberg, and Jennifer Shirk. "Citizen science: a developing tool for expanding science knowledge and scientific literacy." BioScience 59, no. 11 (2009): 977-984. Evaluation and Criteria • Candidates should have a 2:1 or above degree, or an appropriate MSc, in a subject relevant to the project under consideration • In stage 1 applications will be assessed on the quality of the candidates, which will encapsulate academic ability, candidate motivation, writing skills, quality of references and experience. These will be assessed via the paper application. • A further evaluation stage will be carried out for applicants who pass stage 1, which will incorporate an interview/visit to Dundee. How to apply: Your application must include the following documents (ideally sent as a single file): * A CV and cover letter stating: * The project(s) you are interested in (3 maximum) in order of preference * Why your background makes you suitable for the role * Why the particular projects are of interest to you. * A short summary of your final year or MSc project These should be sent to Mrs Shirley Fox ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) by the 25th March. Informal enquiries can be directed to the project supervisor Mel Woods ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) or to Dr David McGloin ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "making__sense" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/making__sense. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/making__sense/AM3PR04MB37170B27F87BE44F6D019EE9AB50%40AM3PR04MB371.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
