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Dr Rhys Archer

@drrhysarcher.bsky.social
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#CitizenScience methods researcher 🌍| #ActuallyAutistic & 🏳️‍🌈 | Youth #participatoryresearch | #Co-design | #EDI advocate | #Coproduction & #co-creation methods for #sustainability & #environment Stockholm Environment Institute at the Univeristy of York

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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 17/07/2026
🚀 CS Co-labs is launching! Using or considering #CitizenScience methods for research? Join us to discover CS Co-labs, offering 1:1 clinics, talks, discussions and resources. Launch: 📆 Wed 29 July 11.15am - 1pm 📍 University of York campus 🍴 lunch provided Read more and register: buff.ly/ojyuY69
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CS Co-Labs launch (in-person)
Join us for the launch of CS Co-labs to hear what is on offer, meet the team and network with others using or interested in citizen science methods.
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
🚀 CS Co-labs is launching! Using or considering #CitizenScience methods for research? Join us to discover CS Co-labs, offering clinics, talks, discussions & resources. Launch: 🗓️ Wednesday 29 July 11.15am - 1pm 📍University of York campus Lunch provided Read more & register: sei.org/projects/co-labs/
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 08/01/2026
How can #CitizenScience truly reflect everyone’s voices and experiences? Join @drrhysarcher.bsky.social and SEI York’s #InclusiveCitSci team at #ECSA2026 @ecsa.ngo for a hands-on session on embedding equity, accessibility and diversity across the project lifecycle. 👉 Learn more: buff.ly/Q43ocf2
Event card. Text is "SEI at ECSA 2026. Inclusive citizen science in practice: learning across borders. European Citizen Science Association. 3-6 March 2026.Oulu, Finland. Early bird rate ends 27 January." Image of three young people in walking clothes and with backpacks leaping across a stream in grassy countryside. Logos for Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York, Inclusive Citizen Science and the European Citizen Science Association.
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Ciara Higham @ciarahigham.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
📢 Are you an adult living in the UK with a respiratory condition, or a guardian of a child with one? Join an online panel to help shape research on indoor air quality & health. 🗓 Monthly (1 - 2 hrs) 🎁 Vouchers provided 🔗 tinyurl.com/codesign-airhub #AirQuality #PublicHealth #RespiratoryHealth
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 02/03/2026
Attending #ECSA2026 tomorrow? Join us for a hands-on session exploring how to embed equity, accessibility and diversity across #CitizenScience methods and project phases. With @drrhysarcher.bsky.social and our Inclusive Citizen Science team. 👉 Find out more: buff.ly/Q43ocf2 #InclusiveCitSci
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Text "Inclusive citizen science in practice: learning across borders. Join us for a hands-on workshop at ECSA 2026. 3 March 2026, 12:45-14:30 EET, Stage. European Citizen Science Association, 3-6 March 2026, Oulu, Finland." 
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Research Fellow. Smriti Safaya
Research Associate. Lucy Way
Project Manager."
Logos of Inclusive Citizen Science, Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York, and European Citizen Science Association".
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SAMHE (Schools' Air quality Monitoring for Health and Education) @samhe.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Read our latest newsletter for: ⭐️ Jingle Bells - #SAMHE style! ⭐️ inspiration from The Glebe Primary School ⭐️ fun, no-prep activities for the last week of term ⭐️ tips for boosting pupils’ concentration 📰 buff.ly/wvnoAbH 🍎 #STEM #EduSky #AirQuality #HealthyAir #SciTeachUK #PrimaryScience #IAQ
Preview of top of December 2025 SAMHE Newsletter, with the SAMHE logo, a divider consisting of gold stars and red berries on a green thread, and the text "Jingle Bells: SAMHE version. (Tune: Jingle Bells)"
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SAMHE (Schools' Air quality Monitoring for Health and Education) @samhe.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
@sarahwestsei.bsky.social @drrhysarcher.bsky.social @sbcode.bsky.social @henryburridge.bsky.social @cathnoakes.bsky.social
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
It was great working with teachers and people who work with schools to co-design the CHEPA tool - check it out here!
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 09/11/2025
Heading to #ECSA2026 @ecsa.ngo next March? 🇫🇮 Join @drrhysarcher.bsky.social and SEI York’s Inclusive Citizen Science team for a hands-on session on embedding equity, accessibility and diversity across #CitizenScience methods and project phases. 👉 Learn more: buff.ly/Q43ocf2
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 23/07/2025
🇬🇧🔌We need your help! If you’re interested in #CommunityEnergy, being part of a community energy group, have experience with local energy decision-making, or research these issues, we’d love you to join us for a series of short online workshops! 👉 Find out more about the project: buff.ly/o9Ohc0m
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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The “overdiagnosed ADHD” debate continues… but here’s what late diagnosis looks like for many women: ❌ Years of criticism ❌ No support = low self-esteem, guilt and shame ✅ Diagnosis = clarity, healing and feeling like life is more worth living This matters. So does the research #AuDHD
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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The time for disability justice, as it always has been, is now. Disability justice underlines and ties together all anti-oppression movements. If you want to learn more about #DisabilityJustice and how you can support disabled communities, any of these 18 books would be a good place to start!
Graphic displaying a collage of nine squares. The eight squares along the border of the graphic show close-up illustrations and images taken from book covers belonging to books about disability justice. At the center of the collage is a blank white square containing the title, “18 Books about Disability Justice”.
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I’m involved in this project and it’s great!! Get in touch if you’re interested 🌱
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SAMHE (Schools' Air quality Monitoring for Health and Education) @samhe.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Has your #school considered #AirFilters? How would it affect your #AirQuality and #energy use? Help us design a tool for schools to easily see the costs and benefits of installing #HEPA filter units in their setting. Read more: bit.ly/40bzWpO #CHEPA (Classroom HEPA), from the #SAMHE team. 🍎
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CHEPA Co-design Process
CHEPA Co-design Process What is CHEPA? The CHEPA (Classroom HEPA) project involves developing a web-based tool to provide predictions of the impact of standalone HEPA filter units on classroom air q...
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Louca-Mai Brady @louca-mai.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Such a brilliant project and example of how to effectively and meaningfully #InvolveYoungPeople in research 👏👏 @dr-know.bsky.social @drrhysarcher.bsky.social and all 🤩 #MentalHealth #PPI #PPIE #Coproduction
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Really happy to be able to start sharing outputs from Youth LIVES! It’s been an incredible project co-creating research proposals with young people! More coming soon #coproduction #citizenscience #ppi #mentalhealth
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Really excited to get started on this project!
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Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
www.routledge.com/Improving-Me...
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thanks so much for coming!
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Louca-Mai Brady @louca-mai.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Brilliant project and a great webinar yesterday @drrhysarcher.bsky.social @dr-know.bsky.social! #InvolveYoungPeople #PPI
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Sarah West @sarahwestsei.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Woah, what an evening! Started with hosting YouthLIVES (www.sei.org/projects/you...) celebration event with the fab @drrhysarcher.bsky.social where youth researchers, funders and 'old' researchers talked about their experiences, and ended singing in York with the equally fab #PoolBridge choir
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Youth LIVES
Working with young people to co-design relevant mental health research by identifying priority research questions and addressing these.
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Thank you to everyone who attended! It was a brilliant event hearing from our researchers and youth researchers! Info on our outputs coming soon!!
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This is tomorrow! Email youthlives-project@york.ac.uk for a place! #coproduction #mentalhealthresearch #citizenscience #codesign #youthmentalhealth
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Sarah O'Brien @sarahobrien.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
That's the exact issue, that slight misalignment between language and the conditions they're alluding to which further obscures and stigmatises (actually) autistic people or those with OCD. Some will take it as a definition of autistic behaviour and others will be harmed by the allusion.
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Louca-Mai Brady @louca-mai.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
#PPI & #coproduction people - any good papers, blogs etc on sharing power & power imbalances in practice?
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European Citizen Science project @ecs.ngo · 05/12/2024
@ecsa.ngo's position paper on #citizenscience. Give your feedback now: docs.google.com/document/d/1... ECSA wants to advocate further support for citizen science within the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP10). Deadline is Friday, Dec. 13.
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Sarah West @sarahwestsei.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Whoop our lovely #schools project is now here! #SAMHE please give us a follow
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Sarah K @dr-know.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This is next week! Super excited to playback some of the superb work our youth co-researchers have done. They’ll be there to talk through their project ideas and troll me with the 👵 because I referenced Friends ONE TIME #coproduction #participatoryresearch #citizenscience #youthmentalhealth
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Want to know more about our #youth #mentalhealth #coproduction research project Youth LIVES? Check out our graphic by the wonderful Tamara-Jade Kaz and our website sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y... #citizenscience #PPI #PPIE #sciart
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Our #youthmentalhealth #coproduction project is coming to an end and we are having an online celebration event on Tuesday 10th December 5pm GMT! Email youthlives-project@york.ac.uk for an invite [1/2] #citizenscience #mentalhealthresearch
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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This looks such an amazing project! @katepahl.bsky.social & @drdavidcooper.bsky.social #CoProduction #nature
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European Citizen Science project @ecs.ngo · 02/12/2024
It's tomorrow! What ethical issues have you encountered in your participatory practice so far? How do you deal with #ethics in your #citizenscience projects? Sounds interesting? Join us online tomorrow for this ECS Collaboration Session 👉 eu-citizen.science/p/ecs-collab...
ECS project meeting in Berlin (11-12 September 2024)
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Anna Coleman @drannac.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Lit review from @drkhan-do.bsky.social et al., suggests necessity for researcher innovation in collaborating & communicating research involvement opportunities for diverse communities 👇 Lack of diversity = results not applicable to all populations. @neuro-observant.bsky.social @dr-know.bsky.social
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Great paper on #coproduction - echoes much of what we have found through our youth mental health coproduction project Youth LIVES www.sei.org/projects/you...
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Youth LIVES
Working with young people to co-design relevant mental health research by identifying priority research questions and addressing these.
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Julian Winn @winn-on-health.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"the meta-analysis suggested that citizen engagement interventions were effective in improving civic engagement, as measured...statistically..." #RealistEvaluation #Collaboration #Codesign #Coproduction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Does citizen engagement improve development outcomes? A realist-informed systematic review of participation and accountability mechanisms
Effective, accountable and transparent institutions, that engage in inclusive and participatory governance, are crucial for the sustainability of global development investments. However, there is a...
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Meet this month's researcher in focus @profcatdurose.bsky.social, co-director of The Heseltine Institute. Learn about her work engaging community voices in policy decision-making, plus helping shape the future of the Liverpool city region creators.spotify.com/pod/show/uol... #AcademicSky #Podcast
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Researcher in focus: Professor Catherine Durose by University of Liverpool Researcher in Focus
Meet Professor Catherine Durose, Co-Director of the University of Liverpool's Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place. Learn about her award-winning research engaging citizen and com...
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Henry Burridge @henryburridge.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Very glad to see this paper out: doi.org/10.1016/j.di... reporting evidence based on the first term of CO2 data from the @SAMHEProject - headline is that adherence to UK guidance for schools is relatively high most of the time; however...
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Sarah West @sarahwestsei.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
High CO2 levels in the House of Commons today, good job we had our #SAMHE AirGradient monitor with us and knew to open the windows!
A man stands behind a desk saying UKRI UK Research and Innovation. On the desk is a small air quality monitor which has a row of red lights on it.
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Sarah West @sarahwestsei.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Follow these folks - a great bunch of people doing really interesting #sustainability work
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Sarah West @sarahwestsei.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Excellent! @sei.org has joined BlueSky. Over on the other place we have 40k+ followers who enjoy our insightful posts about our research on #sustainability #climatechange #airpollution and other environmental issues.
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Sharing a recent paper I wrote collecting shared learning on co-created #citizenscience across Europe from @ecsa.ngo conference 2024. Get in touch if you are interested in joining our working group on co-creation! ap.pensoft.net/article/1267...
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Co-creating the future: exploring practices of co-created citizen science research across Europe
During the ECSA 2024 conference, we led discussions to build and share learning on co-creation practices across Europe. These discussions were centred around thought-provoking prompts based on best pr...
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Citizen Participation @oliverescobar.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🗓️ The December newsletter from the Citizen Participation Network is now out 🗞️ Including articles, reports, events, a guide, a podcast and a video across the fields of participatory and deliberative #democracy. As ever, open access and available here 👉 www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
In this Newsletter:
The ECA Podcast: Disinformation is Designed

Article: What is ‘Dialogue’ in Public Engagement with Science and Technology? Bridging STS and Deliberative Democracy

Germany Leading on Citizens’ Assemblies

Article: Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in the Public Procurement Market - Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean

Book Chapter: Energy Transition and Indigenous Communities in Chile

Global Citizens’ Assembly to Broaden Engagement in Climate Policy

Blog: So, Where to Begin with ‘Embedding’ Co-Production?

Video: We Are It – Community Power in Our Time

About the Citizen Participation Network
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
New SEI strategy just dropped! 👀 #environment
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 01/12/2024
"Many participants recognised that they had experienced autistic burnout at different points throughout their lives, often being misdiagnosed with a specific mental health problem (e.g. depression)."
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“It has shown me how much I am capable of”: An Exploration of Autistic Burnout Experiences in Motherhood
Background: Research has highlighted a relationship between autistic motherhood and autistic burnout, though autistic mothers’ experiences of autistic burn...
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Aut2Ask 🦦 @aut2ask.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Aut2ask x LiberalJane Collab: BURNOUT🧵 it is exhausting being nevrodivergent in a neurotypical world
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exhousting being nevrodivergent in a
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Brilliant thread on EDI in academia 🔥
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Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
@loottheroom.bsky.social oh hey nice to see you here 🖤
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
A great summary of how (and why) science is political from Science Magazine: "Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
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Prof Anna Mavrogianni @annamavrogianni.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
How do indoor environments affect health inequalities, inequities and injustice? What better way to start posting here than announcing the publication of our Special Issue on Health Inequalities and Indoor Environments in the Buildings & Cities journal, co-guest edited with Prof Marcella Ucci!
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Health Inequalities and Indoor Environments
How do indoor environments affect health inequalities, inequities and injustice?
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