James, N.Taylor, S.Roetman, P.2025-12-182025-12-1820152015 Australian Citizen Science Conference. Maximising the Capacity of Citizen Science for Science and Society: A Fenner Conference on the Environment supported by the Australian Academy of Science, 2015, pp.79-79https://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/145655How much do we know about the identity of the citizen scientist, or why people participate or don’t participate in citizen science? Who is the citizen scientist that is driven to participate repeatedly; who is the part-time, one-time or first-time citizen scientist; and who is the potential citizen scientist, someone who has been discouraged from participating or who has been ‘missed’ by current recruitment techniques? This new research project is about the personal and social environmental identity of the adult citizen scientist and non-citizen scientist: the relationship between people, communities and the environment, sense of place and belonging, the influence of environmental experience in youth on the development of strong environmental identity in adulthood, and the personal and social factors that inhibit or foster participation in citizen science. Commencing mid-2015, the project will seek insights from citizen science practitioners, citizen scientists and non-citizen scientists using multiple methods, and will focus on a variety of Australian citizen science projects and the communities where those projects occurred or are occurring. The findings will provide citizen science practitioners with a greater understanding of who is participating in their projects and why, as well as who is not getting involved and what it is that is holding them back. This information will support the design, development and implementation of participation strategies, and contribute new insights to citizen science as a field of research.enCopyright 2015 The Authorsenvironmental identitycommunityparticipationengagementConference item10.13140/RG.2.1.2094.7285James, N. [0000-0001-9642-3646]