A team led by Dr. Joe Cox of the Portsmouth Business School, and including Dr. Karen Masters from the ICG as well as researchers from Oxford, Manchester and Leeds Universities, has won £750,000 from EPSRC to establish why people give up their time to help scientists with projects like Galaxy Zoo
The group will collaborate to study the reasons why people give up their time to help with projects in the Zooniverse, a collection of citizen science projects which was inspired by the success of Galaxy Zoo. ICG members have been involved in Galaxy Zoo from it’s launch in 2007 and in particular, a large fraction of the science results from Galaxy Zoo classifications have been led by scientists at ICG.
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