Nauka obywatelska w przestrzeni nauk społecznych i humanistyki:  siła interdyscyplinarności

Loreta Tauginienė; Eglė Butkevičienė; Katrin Vohland; Barbara Heinisch; Maria Daskolia; Monika Suškevičs; Manuel Portela; Bálint Balázs; Baiba Prūse

Loreta Tauginienė Office of the Ombudsperson for Academic Ethics and Procedures, Wilno, Litwa
Eglė Butkevičienė Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Kowno, Litwa
Katrin Vohland Research Department Museum and Society, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Berlin, Niemcy
Barbara Heinisch Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna, Wiedeń, Austria
Maria Daskolia Environmental Education Lab, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Ath-ens, Ateny, Grecja
Monika Suškevičs Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
Manuel Portela University Jaume I, Institute of New Imaging Technologies, Walencja, Hiszpania
Bálint Balázs Environmental Social Science Research Group – ESSRG, Budapeszt, Węgry
Baiba Prūse Institute for Environmental Solutions, Priekuli, Łotwa

Keywords: citizen science, social science, humanities, meta-synthesis methodology, interdisciplinarity

Abstract

Citizen science evolved through multiple disciplinary manifestations into a new f ield of study and a participatory method of enquiry. While most citizen science projects take place within problem-focused natural sciences, social sciences and humanities help understanding the human dimension and open a broad methodological spectrum for enriching scientific research with new approaches and for boosting public participation. In this paper, we use a meta-synthesis approach to explore how citizen science is practised in the so far less addressed social sciences and humanities by focusing on the role of the citizens, the goals and approaches of the projects, the tasks in which citizens are engaged and their gains across projects of diverse disciplinary background. Our findings indicate that social sciences are gaining more acknowledgment within interdisciplinary citizen science projects by addressing ‘wicked’ problems of human behaviour and agency, while humanities are in quest of a better-defined locus in citizen science. We conclude that social sciences and humanities still face considerable barriers to infiltrate citizen science; the payoffs are substantial and already rewarding for several subfields in social sciences and humanities.

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