Community
Science Exchange

The Community Science Exchange is an exciting new platform led by a coalition of partner societies, launched for elevating, sharing, and expanding the reach of science performed by, for, and with communities.

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Community
Science Exchange

The Community Science Exchange is a platform launched by a coalition of partner societies for elevating, sharing and expanding the reach of science performed by, for and with communities.

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What is Community Science?

Community Science is an equitable exchange benefitting both communities and science. Work can be community-owned and led, or a collaboration between researchers and community members.

Communities include people sharing a common identity, history and/or heritage; a group of people sharing a common, place-based challenge (e.g., localized pollution); people united by a common livelihood (e.g., a fishing community, a farming community); and/or people organizing around a common problem or goal. In recognizing all of these definitions, CSE promotes the engagement of groups who are underrepresented and underserved by science as it is largely practiced today.

We define Science as encompassing Indigenous, non-Western, and Western (a.k.a. "mainstream") frameworks of empirical, hands-on exploration, observation, experimentation and research. Disciplinary boundaries are broad; the Community Science Exchange includes research within the social and natural sciences, engineering, and public health traditions.

 

What is the Community Science Exchange?

The Community Science Exchange (CSE) supports and advances the diverse and growing groups of people who do community science. We create a space for sharing community-relevant scientific results, and recognize and disseminate the diverse outputs of community science within and beyond peer-reviewed literature. CSE allows voices that have not had a platform to share their work, tell their stories, help improve mainstream science, and co-create solutions to environmental and climate change challenges faced by communities and society at large. 

Two Ways to Share Your Science

The Community Science Exchange is home to the Hub and the journal Community Science.

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The Hub

An editor-vetted and authenticated multimedia resource center for people from all kinds of professional and community backgrounds to learn about, engage in and share the processes, impressions and results of community science.

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Peer-Reviewed Journals

The Community Science Exchange publishes the journal Community Science and is proud to partner with the journal Citizen Science: Theory and Practice.

About Us

The Community Science Exchange is a platform led by a coalition of partner societies, launched for elevating, sharing, and expanding the reach of science performed by, for, and with communities.