Photo: Lize Kraan
Involve families in the data collection of your research. Photo: Lize Kraan - The renovated Utrecht University Museum (UMU) will open its doors to the public in September 2023. UMU will be the research museum of the Netherlands: a museum for families with children aged 8-14, where you will be actively introduced to past and present scientific research at Utrecht University. Where you will be inspired to ask questions about yourself and the world around you. And where visitors become researcher themselves. Citizen science: contribute to research yourself. From its opening until March 2024, UMU will organise a citizen science project in which families themselves contribute to current scientific research. For this, we would like to cooperate with UU scientists to let families experience what research is all about and collect valuable research data together. Citizen science can take many different forms. At UMU, we are looking for a project where families can do part of the data collection. For example, by interviewing their grandparents, researching their own neighbourhood or delving into their own past. They send the data they collect with this mini-research to the researchers for broader analysis. Earlier, we collaborated with the Westerdijk Institute , where families could search for new fungi species in the soil of their own gardens. Other examples of citizen science projects outside UMU include National Soil Animal Day , inventory street poetry or helping with archeological research. What are we looking for?. Foto: Lize Kraan - Does this appeal to you and do you see opportunities for your research topic?
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