Liz Lyon presentsCrowdsourcing Lay Summaries: Bridging the Gap in Health Research at the Patients Participate !Workshop at the British Library, 17th June 2011
6. But……
Public
understanding
of science
gets lost in
technical
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language
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7. • How will open and participative
science initiatives impact on
research practice?
• What are scientists and funder
attitudes towards citizen science?
• What are the societal
implications?
• How should professional
scientists, volunteers, amateurs
and citizen scientists work
together?
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8. Patients Participate!
• Bridging the Gap
• Feasibility pilot study
• Stem cell research
• Develop Use Cases
• Deliver advocacy, guidance
• Report &
Citizen-patients producing Recommendations
crowd-sourced lay summaries • JISC funding
of UK PubMed Central papers
Blog : http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/patientsparticipate/
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9. The team
• Monica Duke
• Liz Lyon
• Lee-Ann Coleman
• Karen Walshe
• Allan Sudlow
• Simon Denegri
• Sara Ellis
• Stephen Friend
• Melanie Welham
• Julian Chaudhuri
The Blog :
http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/patientsparticipate/
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