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Cooper, C.B., Dickinson, J., Phillips, T. and Bonney, R. (2007) ‘Citizen Science as a Tool for Conservation in Residential Ecosystems’, Ecology and Society, 12(2). Available at: https://doi.org/10.5751/es-02197-120211.

Dawson, E. (2018) ‘Reimagining publics and (non) participation: Exploring exclusion from science communication through the experiences of low-income, minority ethnic groups’, Public Understanding of Science, 27(7), pp. 772–786. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662517750072.

Dickinson, J.L., Shirk, J., Bonter, D., Bonney, R., Crain, R.L., Martin, J., Phillips, T. and Purcell, K. (2012) ‘The current state of citizen science as a tool for ecological research and public engagement’, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10(6), pp. 291–297. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1890/110236.

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Haywood, B.K. (2013) ‘A “Sense of Place” in Public Participation in Scientific Research’, Science Education, 98(1), pp. 64–83. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21087.

Kelling, S., Johnston, A., Hochachka, W.M., Iliff, M., Fink, D., Gerbracht, J., Lagoze, C., La Sorte, F.A., Moore, T., Wiggins, A., Wong, W.-K., Wood, C. and Yu, J. (2015) ‘Can Observation Skills of Citizen Scientists Be Estimated Using Species Accumulation Curves?’, PLOS ONE. Edited by S. Goffredo, 10(10), p. e0139600. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139600.

Kosmala, M., Wiggins, A., Swanson, A. and Simmons, B. (2016) ‘Assessing data quality in citizen science’, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 14(10), pp. 551–560. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1436.

McKinney, M. (2002) ‘Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Conservation’, BioScience, 52(10), pp. 883–890. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2002)052[0883:ubac]2.0.co;2.

Peltola, T. and Arpin, I. (2018) ‘Science for everybody? Bridging the socio-economic gap in urban biodiversity monitoring’, in Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy. London: UCL Press, pp. 369–380. Available at: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10066341/1/Chapter%2025.pdf (Accessed: 1 August 2025).

Roy, H., Pocock, M., Preston, C., Roy, D. and Savage, J. (2012) Understanding Citizen Science and Environmental Monitoring Final Report on behalf of UK Environmental Observation Framework by: UK Environmental Observation Framework. London: Natural History Museum. Available at: https://www.ceh.ac.uk/sites/default/files/citizensciencereview.pdf(Accessed: 1 August 2025).

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