1  Citizen Science

Citizen science is scientific research conceptualized, designed, planned, conducted, analysed, and/or published by people who are not employed as scientists (for example, at an academic institution). Common forms of citizen science are participatory action research, including societal stakeholders in a sounding board, and crowdsourcing data collection. Citizen science can help to increase the public’s understanding of and appreciation for science.

FORRT has extensive resources about citizen science at https://forrt.org/glossary/citizen-science/.