Linking the motivations and outcomes of volunteers to understand participation in marine community science

McAteer, Benedict; Flannery, Wesley; Murtagh, Brendan

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104375

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“…McAteer et al (2021) also used this categorisation for their study of marine citizen science volunteers. Other studies have used their own classifications, although the categories largely overlap with either the VFI or the Batson, Ahmad, and Tsang (2002) categories (McAteer et al 2021). For example, Domroese, and Johnson (2017) asked "Bee Watchers" about their motivations, and divided those they identified into learning, values, outdoors, social, and a small number of other miscellaneous functions.…”

Section: Motivations Of Citizen Science Participantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the second part of this paper, we describe a study of the motivations of 613 environmental citizen scientists in Great Britain. Instead of looking at individual projects, as most previous studies have done (exceptions are Ganzevoort et al 2017 andMcAteer et al 2021), we conducted a largescale survey across the field, to derive some generalisable statements about the wide range of motivations that were identified in the literature review. We then used cluster analysis to identify types of participants (i.e., groups of people who hold similar sets of motivations).…”

Section: Study Of the Motivations Of Environmental Citizen Scientists In Great Britainmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Variations in the Motivations of Environmental Citizen Scientists

West

Dyke

Pateman

2021

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

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Understanding motivations is important because appealing to and fulfilling motivations helps citizen science projects recruit and retain participants. We summarise the literature around motivations, drawing on key theories from volunteering more broadly and building on this with additional motivations identified in studies of citizen scientists. We also examine what is known about differences in motivations between demographic groups. We then report on a survey of 613 environmental citizen scientists in Great Britain; they were asked to select from a list of motivations derived from the literature. We used hierarchical cluster analysis to group respondents by types of motivations held. Two clusters were dominated by people holding Values motivations (concern for others or the environment), both of which had high proportions of older people and people identifying as from white ethnic groups. A third cluster included people with Egoism motivations (participating to learn something or further one's career) and Values motivations. This cluster had a higher proportion of some commonly underrepresented groups than the overall sample, including younger people, people identifying as from minority ethnic groups and people in lower socioeconomic groups. Two further clusters also had higher proportions of people from minority ethnic groups than the overall sample, one dominated by those who participated because they were asked to, and the other by people who held other motivations not in our list. We use insights on participant motivations from the literature and survey to make recommendations to those wishing to recruit and retain citizen scientists, particularly those from underrepresented groups.

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Section: Motivations Of Citizen Science Participantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Study Of the Motivations Of Environmental Citizen Scientists In Great Britainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Variations in the Motivations of Environmental Citizen Scientists

West

Dyke

Pateman

2021

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

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“…This vague information may prevent the identification of the target audience, their interests, background (education, profession etc. ), and motivations (as in McAteer et al, 2021). This gap in reporting consequently makes it difficult to learn from prior work.…”

Section: Aspects Related To the Citizen Scientistsmentioning

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Citizen science in marine litter research: A review

Kawabe

Ghilardi-Lopes

Turra

et al. 2022

Marine Pollution Bulletin

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“…The participatory nature of community science has also encouraged scholars and practitioners to promote it as a means of instilling social and learning outcomes within volunteers. These can include enhanced environmental citizenship (McKinley et al, 2017), behavioural change and empowerment (Toomey and Domroese, 2013;Ruiz-Mallén et al, 2016), environmental stewardship (Merenlender et al, 2016), and increased environmental and scientific literacy (Haywood, 2016;Kelly et al, 2021McAteer et al, 2021. The outcomes that volunteers obtain are dependent upon how they engage with community science.…”

Section: Reframing Transformation In Community Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%