Discusses citizen or participatory science, including its benefits and key ethical issues.

Our guest today is Lisa Rasmussen who is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina Charlotte and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Accountability in Research. Lisa has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator on over $1 million in National Science Foundation awards and serves as a Co-Editor of the book series Philosophy and Medicine and an Associate Editor of the publication Citizen Science: Theory and Practice. 

Additional resources:

• Association for the Advancement of Participatory Sciences: https://participatorysciences.org/
• Citizen Science: Theory and Practice: https://theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/
• Citizen Science: How Ordinary People are Changing the Face of Discovery: https://scistarter.com/cooper
• SciStarter: https://scistarter.org/