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Cultures of Evidence series 1: Comparing cultures of evidence use in policy settings
Niklas Andersen and Kat Smith discuss a 2022 SKAPE workshop about the ways in which knowledge and evidence are used in policymaking. Through the notion of “evidence cultures”, Kat and Niklas explore the issue further and pose thoughtful questions for further debate.
“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.
Evidence use by parliamentary committees: what is it good for?
Marc Geddes shares some insights from his 12-month parliamentary academic fellowship, organized by the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST), where he studied the workings of Select Committees in the UK House of Commons and how they hold governments accountable.
“To make systems virtual is a tour de force of material configuration”: An interview with Professor Donald MacKenzie
Maxence Dutilleul interviews Donald MacKenzie following his SKAPE seminar entitled “Materiality, Policy and Power in Advertising Markets: Ad Servers and Header Bidding”. During the interview, Donald evokes his project on the material political economy of online advertising and its scientific and policy implications.
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