Paper – 10 Recommendations for Citizen Science into the future

An important co-produced study with researchers, practitioners and Indigenous participants charts a path to make citizen science more inclusive, credible and impactful in the 21st century – highlighting 10 key recommendations for action. The paper by lead authors Jack Nunn and Hakon da Silva Hyldmo and colleagues has just been published in PLOS One: Citation: Nunn JS, da Silva Hyldmo H, McKnight L, McCulloch H, Lavers J, Old J, et al. (2026) 10 recommendations for strengthening citizen science for improved societal and ecological outcomes: A co-produced analysis of challenges and opportunities in the 21st century. PLoS One 21(7): e0331161. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0331161 . The project was led by Science for All, and supported by ACSA with funding from the Australian Academy of Science’s Theo Murphy Initiative. We hope this paper will be used by the community in not only guiding citizen science approaches but also in advoacy for greater support for citizen science and its potential to address complex global challenges. MEDIA RELEASE: ACSA also developed an associated media release “Is citizen science free?” – calling for increased, longer-term funding for the organisational backbone of citizen science: the communication, coordination, project management, evaluation, ethics support, training and knowledge management that make projects possible, but which rarely attract funding of their own. This type of support is central to citizen science mobilising a diverse and caring community and delivering on some of Australia’s most pressing challenges. See the media release here.