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Curtis, Vickie (2018). Patterns of Participation and Motivation in Folding@home: The Contribution of Hardware Enthusiasts and Overclockers. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 3(1) pp. 1–14.

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Curtis, Vickie (2018). Online Citizen Science and the Widening of Academia: Distributed Engagement with Research and Knowledge Production. Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Curtis, Vickie; Holliman, Richard; Jones, Ann and Scanlon, Eileen (2017). Online citizen science: participation, motivation, and opportunities for informal learning. In: Herodotou, Christothea; Sharples, Mike and Scanlon, Eileen eds. Citizen Inquiry: Synthesising Science and Inquiry Learning. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 7–24.

Curtis, Vickie (2015). Online citizen science projects: an exploration of motivation, contribution and participation. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Holliman, Richard and Curtis, Vickie (2015). Online media. In: Gunstone, Richard ed. Encyclopedia of Science Education. Springer Netherlands.

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Curtis, Vickie (2015). Motivation to Participate in an Online Citizen Science Game: A Study of Foldit. Science Communication, 37(6) pp. 723–746.

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Curtis, Vickie (2014). Online citizen science games: opportunities for the biological sciences. Applied & Translational Genomics, 3(4) pp. 90–94.

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Curtis, Vickie (2014). Public engagement through the development of science-based computer games: The Wellcome Trust’s “Gamify Your PhD” initiative. Science Communication, 36(3) pp. 379–387.

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Curtis, Vickie (2013). Evaluating the motivations and expectations of those attending a public astronomy event. Communicating Astronomy to the Public, 13 pp. 14–18.

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Curtis, Vickie (2012). Reassessing dialogue: reflections from an amateur astronomy event. In: PCST 2012 12th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference: Quality, Honesty and Beauty in Science and Technology Communication, 18-20 Apr 2012, Florence, Italy.

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