Anne Land-Zandstra
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. A.M. Land-Zandstra
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 5343
- a.m.land@biology.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7604-9092
My research focuses on the role of authenticity in science museums and on measuring the impact of science communication.
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Authenticity in science museums
“Is it real?” is one of the most heard questions in science museums. Science museums consider it important to make sure visitors can experience real objects and real phenomena. But there is not much empirical evidence on why authenticity is important, how visitors perceive authentic objects, or how it affects their experience. In a research collaboration with Naturalis Biodiversity Center, I am studying these questions. We are studying how visitors perceive real objects versus replicas. And we are experimenting with different ways to support the interaction of visitors with real objects, e.g. through questions on object labels.
In addition, science museums are facing the challenge of how to address societal issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss. How can they mobilize their unique collections to address these issues and activate audiences to consider these issues.
Impact of science communication
The goal of science communication is to affect and change the general public’s views, knowledge, attitudes or behaviour regarding science or scientific findings. In order to determine if and how this impact is being reached, the department of Science Communication & Society at Leiden University, in collaboration with the department for Social, Health and Organisational Psychology at Utrecht University, have developed a platform and toolbox to measure the output, outcomes and impact of science communication activities. Although the initial phase of the Impactlab has ended, we are still looking for opportunities to continue the support and the research that are part of Impactlab.
Citizen Science
When citizens are collaborating with scientists in research projects, we call that citizen science. A few examples of citizen science projects are national bird counts, water quality monitoring by volunteers, or online analysis of satellite images looking for galaxies. Although the concept of volunteers contributing to scientific research is not new, the opportunities for citizen science have increased tremendously over the last decades. New technologies such as internet, and smartphones have made it easier to collaborate with large groups of citizens. My previous research has focused on motivation and learning outcomes of citizen scientists. I have collaborated with different CS projects (iSPEX, Grote Griepmeting, Schone Rivieren) to study why citizen scientists participate in these projects, and what they get out of them. I am still supervising two PhD students in this field, but have focused my own research focus on the two other topics above.
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- Instituut Biologie Leiden
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- Kluis T. de, Romp S. & Land A.M. (2024), Science museum educators’ views on object-based learning: the perceived importance of authenticity and touch, Public Understanding of Science 33(3): 325-342.
- Rambonnet L., Rodenburg F.J. & Land-Zandstra A.M. (2024), Longitudinal study of motivation, attitude, and knowledge of citizen scientists monitoring plastic pollution on Dutch riverbank, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 9(1): 11.
- Rambonnet L., Reinders H. & Land-Zandstra A.M. (2023), Citizen science against the plastic soup: background, motivation and expectations of volunteers studying plastic pollution on Dutch riverbanks, Research For All 7(1): 14.
- Land-Zandstra A.M., Strick M., Peeters W. & de Jong P. (2023), Het meten van impact van wetenschapscommunicatie: eindrapport IMPACTLAB. Leiden: IMPACTLAB.
- Vossen T. E., Land-Zandstra A.M., Russo P., Schut A., van Vulpen I.B., Watts A.L., Booij C. & Tupan-Wenno M. (2023), Effects of a STEM-oriented lesson series aimed at inclusive and diverse education on primary school children’s perceptions of and sense of belonging in space science, International Journal of Science Education 45(9): 689-708.
- Levontin L. Gilad Z. Shuster B. Chako S. Land-Zandstra A. Lavie-Alon N. Shwartz A. (2022), Standardizing the assessment of citizen scientists’ motivations: a motivational goal-based approach, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 7(1): 25.
- Peeters W., Land A.M. & Strick M. (2022), Een nieuwe aanpak voor het meten van impact in de wetenschapscommunicatie: theoretisch kader en praktische uitwerking, Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap 50(3): 231-250.
- Vohland K., Land-Zandstra A., Ceccaroni L., Lemmens R., Perelló J., Ponti M., Samson R. & Wagenknecht K. (2021), The Science of Citizen Science. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
- Land-Zandstra A., Agnello G. & Gültekin Y.S. (2021), Participants in Citizen Science. In: Vohland K., Land-Zandstra A., Ceccaroni L., Lemmens R., Perelló J., Ponti M., Samson R. & Wagenknecht K. (Eds.), The Science of Citizen Science. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 243-259.
- Land-Zandstra A.M., Hoefakker K. & Damsma W. (2020), Reasoning about objects in a natural history museum: the effect of complexity of questions on object labels, Visitor Studies 23(2): 218-236.
- Land-Zandstra A.M., Bakker L. de & Jensen E.A. (2020), Informal science education. In: Dam F. van, Bakker L. de, Dijkstra A.M. & Jensen E.A. (Eds.), Science communication: an introduction. Singapore: World Scientific. 91-117.
- Putten W van der, Bourgeois Q., Broeder L. den, Hilton N., Hut R., Land-Zanstra A.M., Moor T. de, Oberski D., Prats-López M., Snik F., Veenkamp J. & Wildevuur S. (2020), Kennis en krachten gebundeld: citizen science in Nederland. Amsterdam: Nationaal Platform Open Science.
- Rambonnet L., Vink S.C., Land-Zandstra A.M. & Bosker T. (2019), Making citizen science count: best practices and challenges of citizen science projects on plastics in aquatic environments, Marine Pollution Bulletin 145: 271-277.
- Gerven D.J.J. van, Land-Zandstra A.M. & Damsma W. (2019), From Hitler’s sweater to dinosaur fossils: An essentialist outlook on authenticity, Review of General Psychology 23(3): 371-381.
- Vries M.J. de, Land-Zandstra A.M. & Smeets I. (2019), Citizen scientists’ preferences for communication of scientific output: a literature review, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 4(1): 2.
- Land-Zandstra A.M., Gerven D.J.J. van & Damsma W. (2018), Is it real? How visitors interpret authenticity in a natural history museum, Spokes 37: 1-15.
- Gerven D.J.J. van, Land-Zandstra A.M. & Damsma W. (2018), Authenticity matters: Children look beyond appearances in their appreciation of museum objects, International Journal of Science Education 8(4): 325-339.
- Volten H., Devilee J., Apituley A., Carton L., Grothe M., Keller C.U., Kresin F., Land-Zandstra A.M., Noordijk E., Putten E. van, Rietjens J.H.H., Snik F., Tielemans E., Vonk J., Voogt M. & Wesseling J. (2018), Enhancing national environmental monitoring through local citizen science. In: Hecker S., Haklay M., Bowser A., Makuch Z., Vogel J. & Bonn A. (Eds.), Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy. London: UCL Press. 337-352.
- Beusekom M.M. van, Land-Zandstra A.M., Bos M.J.W., Broek J.M. van den & Guchelaar H.J. (2017), Pharmaceutical pictograms for low-literate patients: Understanding, risk of false confidence, and evidence-based design strategies, Patient Education and Counseling 100(5): 966-973.
- Kerkhoven A.H., Rodrigues Dos Santos Russo P.M., Land-Zandstra A.M., Saxena A. & Rodenburg F.J. (2016), Gender Stereotypes in Science Education Resources: A Visual Content Analysis, PLOS ONE 11(11): e0165037.
- Land-Zandstra A.M., Devilee J.L.A., Snik F., Buurmeijer F. & Broek J.M. van den (2016), Citizen science on a smartphone: Participants’ motivations and learning, Public Understanding of Science 25(1): 45-60.
- Hut R.W., Land-Zandstra A.M., Smeets I. & Stoof C. (2016), Geoscience on television: a review of science communication literature in the context of geosciences, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 20: 2507-2518.
- Land-Zandstra A.M., Beusekom M.M. van, Koppeschaar C.E. & Broek J.M. van den (2016), Motivation and learning impact of Dutch flu-trackers, Journal of Science Communication 15(1): A01.
- Land-Zandstra A.M. & Bakker E.P.H.M. de (2014), Informele wetenschapseductie. In: Dam F. van, Bakker L. de & Dijkstra A.M. (Eds.), Wetenschapscommunicatie, een kennisbasis. Den Haag: Boom Lemma. 111-140.