Citizen Science
[Status: Completed]
This project supports the Citizen Science Center Zurich, a joint initiative of UZH and ETHZ that fosters public involvement in scientific research, particularly for the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The research focuses on developing standards and processes to ensure ethical practices within Citizen Science.
Project Link
external page citizenscience.ch
Project Team
James Scheibner
external page Anna Jobin
Description
The term Citizen Science describes the involvement of the general public in the scientific process. UZH and ETHZ have established the external page Citizen Science Center Zurich. This joint initiative exists to enable researchers and citizens to collaborate to produce science, in particular that supports the external page 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN 2030 Agenda. Our research aims to support the activities of the Citizen Science Center Zurich in the area of standards and processes for ethical Citizen Science research.
Scheibner, J., Jobin, A., & Vayena, E. (2022). Internet of Things Devices, Citizen Science Research and the Right to Science. In The Cambridge Handbook of Information Technology, Life Sciences and Human Rights (pp. 231-243). Cambridge University Press. external page https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108775038.019
Jobin, A., Scheibner, J., & Vayena, E. (2020). Ethics guidelines in citizen science. ETH Zurich. external page https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000428502
Ethics guidelines in Citizen Science
The aim of this report is to support the Competence Center Citizen Science Zurich (CCCS). Starting out from the point of research oversight in the Swiss context, it gives an overview of existing ethics guidelines in citizen science as promoted by the Citizen Science Association (CSA), the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) and similar organizations. It highlights the relative lack of attention to ethical governance and processes in current citizen science guidelines and recommends to set up an intra-institutional process to deal with ambiguities in the future.
