Abstract
In this podcast interview Carolyn Burdett joins Sally Shuttleworth, Gowan Dawson, Geoffrey Belknap, and Alison Moulds to discuss their project ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’. From Charles Darwin, nineteenth-century scientific periodicals, scientific communities, and amateur scientists to their twenty-first century virtual counterparts in digital platforms such as Zooniverse, the project illuminates the inclusive nature of science in action, and the strategies of public engagement to respond to the challenge of big data through intergenerational crowdsourcing projects extending from postgraduate research to child scientists.
Highlights
In this podcast interview Carolyn Burdett joins Sally Shuttleworth, Gowan Dawson, Geoffrey Belknap, and Alison Moulds to discuss their project ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’
Shuttleworth: The earlier project on which I worked with Gowan was called Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical, but in that instance we were looking at the role of science in the general periodical; what I am interested in doing now is looking at the vast explosion of scienceperiodicals in the nineteenth century that are lying mouldering in libraries completely disregarded
When a call came from the AHRC for a project that looked at science or humanities working with contemporary scientists, it enabled us to bring our scholarship in conjunction with a colleague of mine at Oxford,Professor Chris Lintott, whom listeners might know as the presenter ofThe Sky at Night, and who has created a wonderful Citizen Science project which is online and open, and has 1.3 million users across the world in various aspects of science
Summary
In this podcast interview Carolyn Burdett joins Sally Shuttleworth, Gowan Dawson, Geoffrey Belknap, and Alison Moulds to discuss their project ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’. Gowan Dawson: I think one of the really interesting aspects of such a large and multiinstitutional project is people from universities working with museum professionals who often have different backgrounds, different objectives, different ways of coming to something or understanding something, and it’s proven enormously fruitful.
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