Martyn Pickersgill highlights the importance of the social sciences in responding to COVID-19, which have all too often been marginalised in favour expertise from the natural sciences.
In this blog, Regine Paul outlines the main ideas from her new book on risk, including the main arguments and contributions.
Jackie Gulland explores the impact of lockdown bubbles in this short blog, originally posted on Covid-19 Perspectives at the University of Edinburgh blog.
Households, bubbles and hugging grandparents: caring and lockdown rules during COVID-19 Read More »
Rob Smith and Sarah Hartley summarise a recently-published article in Public Understanding of Science, where they collaborated with the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to explore how and when research councils should begin processes of public engagement.
When should funders talk about new technologies? Read More »
Based on one of our recent seminars, Nicolas Zehner summarises his research on the Edinburgh City Region, exploring the role of higher education institutions in shaping their environments.
The IR_Aesthetics collective summarise the findings of their recent research on how EU migration policies affect refugees and asylum seekers along the so-called ‘Balkan Route’, raising the question: are policies based on evidence?
Formal and informal shelter provision on the ‘Balkan Route’ Read More »
In this blog, David Yarrow critically examines the value of wellbeing economics in current debates, placing it into conversation with current economic challenges brought to the fore through the UK’s response to Covid-19.
Wellbeing economics and post-COVID welfare policy Read More »
Having been part of the emerging “impact profession” and followed the agenda closely since 2008, I found Smith et al.’s book an excellent account of the controversies, consequences and challenges that has risen from the impact agenda.
Earlier this year (against the difficult backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic), Policy Press published our book, The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges, co-authored with Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer.
What would a more evidence-informed impact agenda look like? Read More »
The past couple of months have increased the need for accurate, and transparent, tools that allow policymakers to track and forecast the behaviour of the pandemic we are going through.
Public participation and algorithmic policy tools Read More »
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