Sofie Illemann Jaeger

Graphic rendering of a big city with high-rise buildings in vivid colours. In the centre, you see an illustration of the Earth pictured in the streets among the buildings.

“Financial climate data needs to be shaped, it needs to be curated – but by who?”: An interview with Dr Julius Kob

Asli Ates (University of Sussex) and Robert Bergsvik (Wageningen University) interview our seminar speaker, Dr Julius Kob (Warwick Business School), about his recent work on financial climate data.

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Making local policy impact: analysing opportunity areas for data driven innovation within the city region (beyond the Edinburgh City)

In advance of the SKAPE seminar in 2022, Matjaz Vidmar and Fumi Kitagawa ask how we can make “policy impact” in our local areas and share stories about their work on the Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) initiative.

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Front cover of Expertise and Participation by Eva Krick

Ignorant rule of the masses or elitist rule of a knowing few? How to organise the knowledge-democracy-nexus

Following her talk for the SKAPE seminar series, Eva Krick introduces her new book ‘Expertise & Participation – Institutional designs for policy-development in Europe’, which examines the relationship between expertise and public participation in modern governance.

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