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Citizen Science briefing paper available in print.

Monica Duke — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:27:59 +0000

Last week I received my supply of printed copies of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Briefing Paper on Citizen Science, produced by the Patients Participate! project. Order your copies through the DCC by emailing info@dcc.ac.uk or print off your own using the downloadable pdf from the website. We will be really pleased to receive any [...]

Citizen Science briefing paper published.

Monica Duke — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:39:22 +0000

The briefing paper from the Patients Participate! project has now been published on the Digital Curation Centre website as part of their briefing paper series. The Citizen Science briefing paper provides an introduction to citizen science, presents benefits, and lists issues to be considered when planning citizen science activities. It is available both as a [...]

Invitation to comment

Monica Duke — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:38:22 +0000

The Patients Participate! project has released two deliverables for open community review. The first is a guide to writing Lay Summaries, and forms part of the DCC series of How To guides, pitched at an intermediate level, offering practical advice. We’re currently seeking comments on the draft of the ‘How To write a Lay Summary’. [...]

Scenarios for writing lay summaries

Monica Duke — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:02:00 +0000

In preparation for the workshop, the project constructed a number of scenarios to help think through examples of how web-based, biomedical information resources, technologies and communities could support translation of emerging research findings into plain English. These scenarios were not intended as suggested services, but rather the aim was to stimulate group discussion and invite [...]

Presentations from the workshop.

Monica Duke — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:39:47 +0000

The presentations from the workshop are now available from slideshare. These are in addition to the recording of Liz Lyon opening the event.

Crowdsourcing Lay Summaries: Bridging the Gap in Health Research by Liz Lyon

Accessing Biomedical and Health Information by Lee-Ann Coleman

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JISCPP on Prezi

Patient Perspectives on Research Findings by Sara Ellis

Communicating Research Beyond Academia A researchers perspective by Melanie Welham

The presentation by Graham Steel is available on Prezi: Patients Anticipate and Simon Denegri has described his talk in a blog post.