Consulting

Yaela is a science communication researcher, emphasizing on citizen science and public engagement with science. She has experience in the development, design and management of citizen science projects, and has led a number of environmental citizen science projects focusing on co-creation processes and wide community engagement.

Yaela has developed guidelines for citizen science project design, aiming to maximise its benefits for science, public engagement, public empowerment, and education. She has experience working with diverse audiences, including scientists, policy makers, community members and students of all ages. Yaela is a member of the Taking Citizen Science to Schools research excellence centre and served as the director of engagement in Citizen Science Asia Association.

Most recently, Yaela has conducted research mapping citizen science initiatives in Australia, aimed to outline the diverse goals and practices, and design ways for benefiting multiple citizen science stakeholders.

Geetha is a globally certified Project Management Professional (PMP) who specialises in Project Management and Evaluation (PM&E) services for environmental and Citizen Science projects. Through her small NSW-based consultancy firm ‘Project Checkpoint‘ Geetha offers tailored solutions across the entire project lifecycle to maximise environmental and citizen science project success.

Geetha’s services portfolio includes project idea validation, project pre-planning, project set-up, project first-aid, evaluation planning and end-of-project evaluation. She is also experienced in delivering capacity building workshops for busy individuals and teams who are keen to expand their PM&E skills.

Geetha also holds a Master of Science in Wildlife Health and Population Management.

Jessie has extensive experience across citizen science, ecology, conservation, environmental education, public engagement, and technology design. She has consulted on a variety of projects that set out to empower all members of civil society to cooperatively learn and make discoveries together. Government, NGO, and industry clients have tasked her to develop state and local strategies, lead professional development, facilitate workshops, grow digital outreach channels, and more.

Having transitioned from a career in game development to become a passionate science communication practitioner and researcher, Lisa is a safe pair of hands to guide a project to completion. She is experienced in engaging diverse stakeholders and expressing highly technical subject matter in clear, compelling language for different audiences. She has years of interactive digital project development under her belt, ranging from serious games to science museum exhibits, planetarium shows, VR experiences and educational apps.

Peter is experienced in both the technical and commercial aspects of digital and data related technologies and has worked in and for a wide range of organisations in the research, commercial and government sectors in Australia and internationally.

Peter is committed to Australian innovation and is currently on the board of the NSW Smart Sensing Network, is treasurer of the Australian Citizen Science Association, serves on the Australian Computer Society Internet of Things Technical Committee, is a member of the Internet of Things Alliance Water Sector working group and the Australian Research Data Commons Data Quality working group.

Peter’s formal qualifications include an MBA(Exec) from the Australian Graduate School of Management and graduation from the Australian Institute of Directors Company Directors course.  Peter is also an inventor on 28 granted patents in Europe, China and the US in the fields of voice and video communications, data networking, biometrics and the monitoring of civil infrastructure sensing and artificial intelligence.