What are typical office sizes and task distributions for science shop staff?
As there is not a typical structure for science shops there isn’t a typical office size either. From experiences it can be learned that there should be at least one (part- time) person with a formal appointment to run a science shop. This will allow the science shop to build structural relations and a network. SCIPAS report 1 (Science Shops Operational Options) gives an overview of organisational issues of science shops. In general science shops start as small units with 1 or 2 staff members. The total number of staff highly depends on the tasks of a science shop (e.g. mediation only, or mediation and research, or mediation, research and education).
