Storytelling for citizen science
Section outline
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This is a free two and a half hour course that provides an introduction to storytelling and gives practical tools to shape narratives to communicate about and engage with citizen science. Citizen science is a form of active public engagement in science.
This course is designed to inspire and support anyone interested in creating a compelling story out of their projects, experiences or work, with the purpose of connecting with different audiences. We want to ignite your curiosity and motivation to try storytelling in your local contexts. No prior knowledge in storytelling or creative writing is needed for this course.
This course will give you the ground and tools to look in a different way at how you can communicate about your current project and how to craft a story that matters and connects to different audiences. It will also provide examples of stories and resources for you to study further and deeper.
By the end of this course, you will:
- Understand the value of stories and how they can help you connect with people when using it for communicating citizen science;
- Identify the elements that make a compelling story and be able to discover them in your project or your experiences
- Explore possible narratives that are valuable to your context
- Craft possible plots and stories and a way to share them in a compelling way.
At the end of the course, there is a 10-question quiz. If you score 50% or more in this final quiz, then you will earn a course completion badge.
Click here to enrol in this course and use enrolment key StoryCitSci to do so. Once you enrol you will be able to take quizzes and receive a badge upon successful course completion.
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The contents of this course were thought and created for the EU-Citizen.Science platform by the ECSA Working Group on Storytelling and other arts.
They were inspired and informed by authors and artists and their significant works: Gianni Rodari, Ashley Randsen, Roxanne Gay, Anita González, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bobby Buster, Margaret Atwood, Gilles Deleuze and Rumi.
We also invited professors and artists to contribute with their knowledge, experiences and approaches:
- We would like to thank all our invited speakers (in order of appearance): Fernanda Krahn Uribe, Dr.Erinma Ochu, Johanna Lohrengel, and Bea Pántya
- We would like to thank all the ECSA Working Group team and their institutions (in alphabetical order)
- Egle Butkeviciene, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
- Alexandra Czeglédi, Environmental and Social Sciences Research Group, ESSRG, Hungary
- Cristina Flora, Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Blanca Guasch, Science for Change, Spain
- Lourdes Pérez, University of Granada, Spain
- Baiba Pruse, Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Alice Sheppard, University College London, UK
- Andrea Troncoso Quilaqueo, European Citizen Science Association, ECSA, Germany