A very short introduction to our first section.
We'll start with an introduction to a well-known study of volunteer motivations. This part of the course is based on a paper by Jordan Raddick et al, called "Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers". You can read the whole paper here.
You don't need to know any astronomy or learn any of the examples shown here - they are merely here as "this is something people found interesting"!
In this section, we'll watch a short video by a woman who participated in a different citizen science project, Stall Catchers, and consider different types of motivation.
Alice Sheppard shares her thoughts on citizen science motivations, and what it means for us to understand them.