Citizen Science Projects: How to Make a Difference

Learn to capture and analyse data and use the findings to take action

Would you like to understand the environment and other global challenges to help create change? Citizen science projects and citizen observatories are the ideal way to explore big issues, take action and become a changemaker.

On this course, you’ll discover many different types of projects and how to get involved. You’ll find out how to lead a project, including the best practices for community building, question forming and data collecting.

You’ll also learn how to interpret the information you collect and use your findings to educate others about important universal concerns.

This course is for anyone interested in citizen science and citizen observatories, and learning about how to design a citizen science project.

• Getting started with citizen observatories
• Welcome to Week 1
• Getting started with citizen science
• Understanding the issue or problem
• Choosing a question
• Forming a team
• Week 1 summary
• Observing your environment
• Welcome to Week 2
• Deciding what data to collect
• Developing protocols for data collection
• Training for data collection
• Capturing or generating the data
• Week 2 summary
• Analysing and visualising your observations and results
• Welcome to Week 3
• Collecting quality observations and data from your environment
• Understanding the data
• Analysing the data
• Visualising the data
• Week 3 summary
• Sharing results and creating change
• Welcome to Week 4
• Disseminating results
• Change-making and planning action
• Course summary