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  • Maggot menageries: high school student contributions to medicinal maggot production in compromised healthcare settings

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    Stadler, Frank
    Arjona, Talia
    Beaumont, Glenn
    Bradley, Charlotte
    Budd, Alyssa
    Busana, Pedro
    Clatworthy, Mathew
    Fitz-Gibbon, Jodie
    Goh, Kelvin GK
    Hayes, Matt
    Heather, Kylie
    Lawton, Aisha
    McAuley, Mike
    Onoprienko, Sarah
    Rogers, Aliana
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    Griffith University Author(s)
    Stadler, Frank
    Goh, Kelvin
    Ulett, Glen C.
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    This case study describes how high school students can participate in research, development, and testing of real-life solutions for society’s most intractable problems. In modern warfare, civilians make up most of the casualties, and conflict-affected communities are often isolated and have only limited access to healthcare. Most surviving casualties have limb wounds from injury or surgery, and many of these become infected and require long-term treatment or amputation. In 2020, MedMagLabs and the Queensland Virtual STEM Academy partnered to engage high school students to co-develop and test methods and training resources ...
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    This case study describes how high school students can participate in research, development, and testing of real-life solutions for society’s most intractable problems. In modern warfare, civilians make up most of the casualties, and conflict-affected communities are often isolated and have only limited access to healthcare. Most surviving casualties have limb wounds from injury or surgery, and many of these become infected and require long-term treatment or amputation. In 2020, MedMagLabs and the Queensland Virtual STEM Academy partnered to engage high school students to co-develop and test methods and training resources that empower people in conflict-affected communities to produce medicinal maggots for highly efficacious and affordable wound care. Maggot therapy is the treatment of wounds with living fly larvae to remove dead tissue, to control infection, and to promote wound healing. As opposed to most citizen science, which mainly focuses on data collection and/or educational and awareness-raising outcomes, this project focused on the co-creation of knowledge and the delivery of tangible research outcomes. The measure of its success was the development of end-user friendly medicinal maggot production methods and training resources. The study explains how citizen scientists and researchers collaborated with one another to achieve this objective. Project execution was largely in line with The Ten Principles of Citizen Science. Further review of project outcomes and self-reflection by the research team highlight important lessons for such collaborative studies, which have been summarised in five recommendations specifically relating to research collaborations with schools and student citizen scientists.
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    Journal Title
    Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
    Volume
    6
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.401
    Copyright Statement
    © 2021 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
    Subject
    Education
    humanitarian
    citizen science
    student
    STEM
    maggot therapy
    war
    humanitarian
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/411704
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