Biography
Baiba is part UCC MaREI team where with the colleagues she explores citizen engagement across Ocean Mission activities. She currently serves as a chair for a Working group on Green spaces and citizen science at European Citizen Science Association. Baiba is also involved in the Society of Ethnobotany Newsletter committee and just recently was part of the Editor team for ECSA/ACSC 2024 proceedings.
Bacgkround
Baiba Prūse is an interdisciplinary researcher from Latvia with a focus on local ecological knowledge (ethnobiology) and citizen science. She hold a B.Sc. from Business Academy Aarhus (Denmark) in Environmental management field and M.Sc. from Uppsala University (Sweden) in Sustainable Development. Baiba completed her PhD on knowledge co-creation in Environmental Sciences at University of Latvia in 2020. She have worked in several European countries, including Italy (Ca'Foscari University of Venice), on the interrelationship between nature and people, in the Netherlands (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), contributing to research on citizen driven initiatives as well as serving as a coach for Master courses (Interdisciplinary Community Service Learning; Policy, Politics and Participation).
Recent podcasts & interviews
Recent video podcast, moderated by Baiba, on citizen science&biodiversity, 2024, link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8miDThnW8&t=3s
Baiba was part of Latvian Science Calendar 2021, video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zWXSThQGrA
Bacgkround
Baiba Prūse is an interdisciplinary researcher from Latvia with a focus on local ecological knowledge (ethnobiology) and citizen science. She hold a B.Sc. from Business Academy Aarhus (Denmark) in Environmental management field and M.Sc. from Uppsala University (Sweden) in Sustainable Development. Baiba completed her PhD on knowledge co-creation in Environmental Sciences at University of Latvia in 2020. She have worked in several European countries, including Italy (Ca'Foscari University of Venice), on the interrelationship between nature and people, in the Netherlands (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), contributing to research on citizen driven initiatives as well as serving as a coach for Master courses (Interdisciplinary Community Service Learning; Policy, Politics and Participation).
Recent podcasts & interviews
Recent video podcast, moderated by Baiba, on citizen science&biodiversity, 2024, link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8miDThnW8&t=3s
Baiba was part of Latvian Science Calendar 2021, video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zWXSThQGrA
Research Interests
citizen science + art + marine environment + participatory (art) based methodologiesPublications
Book Chapters
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2023) | 'Citizen Science' Melanie Jaeger-Erben, Frank Becker, Baiba Prūse, Jimlea Nadezhda Mendoza, Jutta Gutberlet, Eliana Rodrigues (2023) 'Citizen Science' In: Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning. N/A: Transcript. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2020) | 'Citizen science in the social sciences and humanities: the power of interdisciplinarity' Loreta Tauginienė, Eglė Butkevičienė, Katrin Vohland, Barbara Heinisch, Maria Daskolia, Monika Suškevičs, Manuel Portela, Bálint Balázs & Baiba Prūse (2020) 'Citizen science in the social sciences and humanities: the power of interdisciplinarity'. Palgrave Communications, [DOI] [Details] |
Conference Publications
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2024) | ECSA2024 and Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2024: Change Baiba Prūse, Sophia Kochalski, Marta Dieviņa, Ignacio Gianelli, Katina Roumbedakis, Marien Helmus, Embla Ekström, Ludovica Montecchio, Tanja Straka, Svea Rogge, Arne Kinds, Natali Lazzari, Milena Arias Schreiber, Sebastián Villasante (2024) From sea to street: initiating change for stronger connection with our ocean ECSA2024 and Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2024: Change [DOI] [Details] |
Published Reports
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2024) | Needs assessment report on 5 citizen (change) driven initiatives – case studies. Prūse, B., Thompson, J., Seufert, V., Loeber, A., Anna, S., Emma, H., Nuray, D., Lusine, A., Enrico, B., Taisiia, B., Anna, C., Marijke, D.-D., Else, G., Lluis, G., Sigrid, H., Florentien, G.-E., Jana, G., Viktória, I., Renáta, I., … Viktória, S. (2024) Needs assessment report on 5 citizen (change) driven initiatives – case studies. Zenodo, N/A. [DOI] [Details] |