I have a strong academic and extensive empirical background. I have conducted numerous household poverty surveys and worked in small and large community projects covering a wide range of development topics. I am dedicated to participatory research and have worked extensively on human development and well-being and the interconnections between humans and their environment where I make a strong connection between science, art and feelings. My passion is citizen science – taking science out of the library and the laboratory and into everyday life – with the aim of achieving a more just society through the democratisation of knowledge. I have strong facilitation skills in socio-ecological learning for the purpose of being ‘differently’ responsive to social and natural environments – and use art to emphasise new ways of learning and communicating science. I am the founder of significant citizen science project entitled Diamonds on the Soles of our Feet that has won global acclaim. I am also a passionate mentor and assist editing or writing journal articles, reports, thesis or other publications. I have published widely . My two most recent articles (2024) are Goldin, J and Suransky, C (2024). Decolonisation of education through citizen science: Slow science, not slow violence. The case study Diamonds on the Soles of Our Feet https://journals.ukzn.ac.za/index.php/joe/issue/view/167 and Goldin, J and Suransky, C (2024), Pedagogy with a heartbeat: the transformative potential of citizen science in education https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v42i2.8013
