Conference: Connecting with the crowd -
Friday 16th June 2017, The Natural History Museum, London

The deadline for registering for the 'Connecting with the Crowd' citizen science conference is Sunday 28th May 2017. After this date, registration will close, so please don't delay in booking your space. We already have over 80 delegates signed up for what promises to be an exciting event.

Register now<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting-with-the-crowd-tickets-33427919808>.

Keynote presentations include:

Prof Chris Lintott<https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/lintott>, Professor of Astrophysics and co-founder of the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform, University of Oxford.
Prof Dan Rubenstein<http://www.princeton.edu/eeb/people/display_person.xml?netid=dir>, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Program in African Studies at Princeton University.

We also have a wide range of crowdsourcing projects and platforms represented including the Zooniverse<http://www.zooniverse.org/>, Les Herbonautes<http://lesherbonautes.mnhn.fr/> from Paris Natural History Museum, Mammal Web<http://www.mammalweb.org/> and Mark My Bird<http://www.markmybird.org/>. Alongside this we have a range of speakers who study the social dimensions of crowdsourcing including presenters from the Smart Society<http://www.smart-society-project.eu/> project, Smithsonian Institution's Transcription Center<https://transcription.si.edu/>, and the Open University's Institute for Educational Technology<http://www.open.ac.uk/iet/main/>.

Full details including how to register are given below.

With best wishes,

Kath Castillo
Conference Coordinator



Kath Castillo - Project Officer, Constructing Scientific Communities, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK.; e-mail [log in to unmask]


Conference: Connecting with the crowd
Date: Friday 16th June 2017
Time: 10:00-17:30
Venue: The Natural History Museum, London


This one day cross-disciplinary conference aims to explore best practices and new perspectives on crowdsourcing citizen science.


Register here<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting-with-the-crowd-tickets-33427919808?aff=es2>


Crowdsourcing projects and platforms abound, involving over one million citizen scientists in the analysis or interpretation of images and data online. This conference will showcase the latest tools, technologies and approaches available to engage and collaborate with diverse audiences online.

Key elements of the event will be to share lessons learned, and to explore collaborations with social science researchers to understand who makes up 'the crowd', how we can best reach, engage and connect with them, and how effective they are at crowdsourcing research data.

This event provides a networking and professional development opportunity for researchers and students from the fields of science, social science and the arts and humanities, as well as practitioners in science communication, citizen science and crowdsourcing.


Programme

Keynote speakers include:

·         Prof Chris Lintott, Professor of Astrophysics and co-founder of the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform, University of Oxford.

·         Prof Dan Rubenstein, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Program in African Studies at Princeton University.

The conference will also feature interactive formats including a chance to meet platform developers and leaders over a coffee, and a collaborative 'Wish List' Wall where we invite all attendees to share their needs and desires for new tools, apps or functionality on existing platforms to support new crowdsourcing projects, or extend existing ones.



Booking

Booking is required. £22.50 - Full fee. £15 - Students / retired / unemployed / BES members.

The conference fee includes lunch and morning/afternoon refreshments.

Registration deadline is Sunday 28th May 2017. Places are limited so please register now!<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting-with-the-crowd-tickets-33427919808?aff=es2>  

This event is jointly sponsored by the British Ecological Society through their Special Interest Group for Citizen Science, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council through their Constructing Scientific Communities project.

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