Citizen Science Lab

The Citizen Science Lab is a transdisciplinary expertise centre that brings together scientists, policy makers, citizens and other societal stakeholders in participatory research initiatives that produce new knowledge, address scientific questions of relevance to society, and provide data and insights on urgent societal issues that need to be tackled together.

Based within LURIS, the CS Lab acts as a facilitator and incubator of new co-created citizen science projects that bring science and society closer together, as well as a supportive knowledge hub for societal engagement practices across all domains of research.

The CS Lab also contributes to the field of practice by developing novel approaches to both researcher-led and community-led citizen science approaches, along with the tools and materials to support these. We additionally conduct research on the impacts and outcomes of such approaches, in collaboration with the Engagement & Inclusion Focal Area of the Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS).