ABC Science is seeking scientists with a great research idea
We’re looking for innovative scientists to be our partner in three online citizen science projects. If you have a research idea that could benefit from accessing thousands of people, then we’d love to hear from you.
By Imagine if you could get 10,000 people to help you
We’re looking for a scientific research project that will:
Appeal to lots of people;
Involve an experiment/survey/test that can be done online.
It should:
Be open to people living all across Australia, regardless of location;
Be a valid scientific research project, associated with an Australian university or research organisation, with the aim to publish some results in a peer-reviewed journal or equivalent;
Ideally, inform participants about themselves in some way. That is, they sleep more than average, their personality is extroverted, they got 60% correct which is average for their age range.
ABC Science will:
Develop and run the online platform for the research project;
Promote the project.
You’ll be responsible for:
The science behind the research project;
Assisting in promoting the project (doing media interviews etc);and
Analysing the data collected.
Previous citizen science projects
In the past we’ve done a Sleep Survey with the Woolcock Institute, University of Sydney where participants answered a long survey about their sleep habits, and had the option of filling in a 7 day sleep diary.
A multi-tasking test with the University of Queensland tested participants working memory, distractability and multi-tasking ability.
Both these projects attracted thousands of participants from across Australia, willing to give up half an hour of their time for science.
Other important details
The period that the project is open for data collection will be from three weeks to two months, but will always include the time of National Science Week, ie August.
We’ll be running one citizen science project each year for 2012, 2013 and 2014 and are currently looking for projects for all these years.
Register your interest
Please send us an email that covers the following details:
Your name, position and institution.
Your experience and areas of scientific interest.
Your proposed project: a brief synopsis of the idea including why this research is interesting and/or important; the questions it hopes to answers; and how you imagine the’‘citizen scientists’ might be involved in providing data for your research.
Send you email to science@your.abc.net.au
If we like your idea we’ll contact you to discuss it further.
Please note
Only proposals from research scientists who are currently working at an Australian university or research organisation will be considered.
Any questions
Please contact Kylie Andrews, Producer at ABC Science Online, on phone 02 8333 2473 (Monday to Wednesday only).
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