Around the globe, thousands of research projects are engaging millions of individuals many of whom are not trained as scientists—in collecting, categorizing, transcribing, or analyzing scientific data.
In Lusaka, participants from the Anglican Children's Project are engaged in community mobilization and child abuse advocacy campaigns such as presentation of drama, theatre and group discussions, especially in markets in nine communities (Chibolya, John Laing, Kamwala, Misisi, Chawama, Kabwata, Libala, Chilenje and Arrackan Barracks).
A major recruitment challenge for many of the projects was engaging a practice receptionist to relay the study information to the physician who would ultimately decide whether or not the selected practice would participate.
The company behind the Keystone XL project is engaged in a "perpetual campaign" that would involve putting "intelligent" pressure on opponents and mobilising public support for an entirely Canadian alternative, bypassing Barack Obama and pipeline opposition in the US.
As part of this process, the project is engaged in the development of soil and landscape information systems in order to make legacy, recently updated, and near real-time data and information widely available.
Furthermore, the project is engaged in a baseline assessment on antimicrobials use and resistance in Ethiopia and reviewing the current AMR legal frameworks.
The Obama Transition Project is engaging citizens to speak up and out, about their thoughts and desires.
This project we are engaged in, and indeed my whole career, owe much to their efforts.
"We estimate conservatively that ContactPoint will save 5m practitioner hours, equivalent to £88m a year, once all projected users are engaged," she said, in reply to a parliamentary written question from Labour backbencher Phil Wilson.
For their part, narrators often want to know something, maybe a fair bit, about their interviewers: their backgrounds, their understanding of the history to be explored, and their goals for the project they are engaged in together.
