Parallel Workshops Thursday Morning

Parallel workshops will run simultaneously, and you will have the opportunity to choose the session that best fits your interests or needs. You can register for your preferred workshop at the beginning of the Winter School.

Option 1: Ruth Förster

Option 2: Annette Jenny

Research Design for Transformative, Participatory Citizen Science

By focusing on a framework and methods for designing transformative, participatory research, this workshop brings together beginners as well as advanced citizen science researchers who seek to increase the intensitiy of citizen participation in their project.

We will introduce and discuss a common framework (phases, principles, involved actors) with variations and will reflect on commonalities and differences to (disciplinary) research processes attendees are familiar with. Based on this, participants can generate first ideas on how to implement the research design within their research project or idea.

In addition to short theoretical inputs, interactive exercises and plenary discussions allow for a multi-layered engagement with research design. Participants' application contexts will be integrated and may include research projects, participatory decision-making processes and policy development and implementation.

Learning objectives:

Participants

• know the central features of designing transformative participatory Citizen Science research processes also in comparison to disciplinary research.
• know a basic framework and variations for designing a research project.
• generate initial ideas on how to implement/adapt the research design within their concrete project or project idea

More about Ruth Förster on this subpage: Speakers & Trainers

Impact-oriented Planning of Citizen Science Projects

How do I achieve impact with my Citizen Science project? In this course, impact-oriented planning steps are demonstrated using examples of Citizen Science projects. The participants transfer the input step-by-step to their own projects. This provides participants with a logical project model, allowing them to plan, implement, and evaluate their projects effectively.

Learning objectives:  

Participants

• recognise the benefits of a logic model for project planning and implementation and are motivated to use it
• can structure their project objectives and goals according to the levels of a logic model
• understand the importance of precise target group differentiation and can implement it
• can plausibly derive cause-effect relationships per target group and translate them into their logic model
• can determine effective project activities based on their reflections on the cause-effect relationships

More about Annette Jenny on this subpage: Speakers & Trainers