Just before Christmas TCV's OPAL community scientist Amy Styles and Coastal Communities trainee Rebecca Cairns were out for some Citizen Science with volunteers with the Stirling mid-week group at the Helix in Falkirk. ...
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Co-created Citizen Science Pilot with elderly volunteers
A joint pilot in Co-created Citizen Science was recently trialed with Kinross Day Centre (our thanks to Nan Cook), with a group of elderly volunteers. The group were all near or beyond retirement age, in generally good health ...
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Citizen science is not all about nature – Learning about wildlife has big people benefits too
Harry Woolner is a trainee with the TCV Natural Communities Project and is on a placement with Buglife. Amongst his community engagement projects he has been taking participants out to learn about their local wildlife. Here ...
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Citizen Science Apps
TCV staff and volunteers recently trialed a number of Citizen Science smartphone apps. There are a huge number of apps available, some of which are very simple to use and others requiring more knowledge and training. We ...
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Midweek group become citizen science volunteers
TCV's Opal Community Scientist, Amy Styles, has been out in the last few weeks visiting our volunteer conservation groups and chatting to them about being citizen science volunteers by recording wildlife whilst they are out ...
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