UK SBS BLOJEU-CR150054 Study to Understand Motivations for Citizen Science on behalf of UK EOF

The study will cover people participating in citizen science, including highly skilled and unskilled volunteers, but also other stakeholders, such as professional scientists, policymakers, practitioners and data users. The working group considers that, to deliver the most useful knowledge for the available resources, the work may need to focus on some types of citizen science rather than trying to cover the entire sector.

This could be by theme (eg water environments; biodiversity; weather; air quality; invasive species), although it is important that a full range of stakeholders, as suggested above, is covered. We are open on this issue to the expertise and ideas of potential contractors, who are asked to show clearly in their tender what aspects they would focus on, to deliver the outputs within the available budget and to explain why this approach is likely to succeed.