Margaret Gold is the Coordinator of the Citizen Science Lab at Leiden University. Her research focus is Citizen Science as a collaborative transdisciplinary practice that engages society in scientific research across a wide range of areas of application. She has a particular interest in co-creative approaches, and Citizen Observatories for community-based environmental monitoring and policy change.

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Margaret Gold is a senior researcher and coordinator of the Citizen Science Lab at Leiden University. Her research focuses on the ‘Science of Citizen Science’ with a particular interest in Citizen Observatories and their long-term impacts on policy formation, environmental governance, social innovation, and collective action. 

In addition to running the Citizen Science Lab, which is a knowledge hub and project incubator for citizen science initiatives and new collaborations, Margaret is also the coordinator of the national Citizen Science Nederland network for citizen science practitioners.