From citizen science to citizen action: Analysing the potential for a digital platform to cultivate attachments to nature

Nirwan  Sharma; Sam Greaves; Advaith  Siddhartan; Helen Anderson; Annie Robinson; Laura Colucci-Gray; Agung Tot Wilbowo; Helen Bostock; Andrew Salisbury; Stuart Roberts; David Slawson; Rene Van der Val

doi:10.22323/2.18010207

From citizen science to citizen action: Analysing the potential for a digital platform to cultivate attachments to nature

Nirwan Sharma, Sam Greaves, Advaith Siddhartan, Helen Anderson, Annie Robinson, Laura Colucci-Gray, Agung Tot Wilbowo, Helen Bostock, Andrew Salisbury, Stuart Roberts, David Slawson, Rene Van der Val

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Identifying private gardens in the U.K. as key sites of environmental engagement, we look at how a longer-term online citizen science programme facilitated the development of new and personal attachments of nature. These were visible through new or renewed interest in wildlife-friendly gardening practices and attitudinal shifts in a large proportion of its participants. Qualitative and quantitative data, collected via interviews, focus groups, surveys and logging of user behaviours,revealed that cultivating a fascination with species identification was key to both ‘helping nature’ and wider learning, with the programme creating a space where scientific and non-scientific knowledge could co-exist and reinforce one another.

Original language	English
Article number	A07
Pages (from-to)	1-35
Number of pages	35
Journal	Journal of Science Communication
Volume	18
Issue number	1
Early online date	17 Jan 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18010207
Publication status	Published - 17 Jan 2019

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citizen science
environmental communication
public understanding of science and technology

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Laura Colucci-Gray
- Moray House School of Education and Sport - Personal Chair of Science and Sustainability Education
- Institute for Education, Teaching & Leadership
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Sharma, N., Greaves, S., Siddhartan, A., Anderson, H., Robinson, A., Colucci-Gray, L., Wilbowo, A. T., Bostock, H., Salisbury, A., Roberts, S., Slawson, D., & Van der Val, R. (2019). From citizen science to citizen action: Analysing the potential for a digital platform to cultivate attachments to nature. Journal of Science Communication, 18(1), 1-35. Article A07. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18010207

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