This is a design for a tea towel created with citizen social scientist Maria Trimikliniotis as part of our 2023-2024 Camden Citizen Scientists-in-Residence programme, where she focused on how culture and community is developed through shared recipes and memories around food.
Following many successful collaborations, Camden Council have teamed up with the Institute for Global prosperity at University College London to deliver a new, more extensive 'in-residence' form of citizen science.
Seven local residents were employed by Camden Council to conduct research informed by their own lived experience for the benefit of developing new council policy ideas and initiatives. As part of their residency at the Council, the cohort completed a bespoke 12-month training programme with the UCL Citizen Science Academy.
Through training and supported fieldwork using qualitative research methods, the work done by the citizen scientists-in-residence is part of a wider goal to promote citizen-led policy making.