Blogs, perspectives and opinion
Lived experience as evidence in anti-poverty policy making: a governance-driven perspective
By Clementine O’Connor and Hayley Bennett In early 2025 we gave a SKAPE presentation called ‘Lived Experience as Evidence’ at Edinburgh Uni. We focussed on exploring the differences
SKAPE Workshop Sparks New Research Outputs on ‘Cultures of Evidence’
By Kat Smith, Niklas Andersen and Valérie Pattyn. In June 2022, the University of Edinburgh played host to a vibrant workshop on “cultures of evidence,”
Scoping Impact – An International Study of Contemporary Definitions and Conceptualisations of Impact by Funders of Social Science Research
By Nathan Coombs, Hilary MacDonogh, and Eugénia Rodrigues. Incentivising and supporting the ‘impact’ of social science research has become an objective for funding bodies in
The University As Infrastructure of Becoming: Re-Activating Academic Freedom Through Humility in Times of Radical Uncertainty
In this blog, Nicolas introduces his new paper, co-authored with Dr Francisco Durán del Fierro, conceptualising the university as an ‘infrastructure of becoming’.
Former SKAPE co-director Marc Geddes awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his work exploring the relationship between parliament and knowledge
SKAPE’s former co-director, Dr Marc Geddes has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for research exploring the relationship between parliament and knowledge.
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