Blogs, perspectives and opinion
Governing, knowledge and time: a governmentality perspective
Marlon Barbehön reflects the intertwinement of time and governing practices, discussing how modern governance is simultaneously informed by particular conceptions of time while also re-producing constructions of time through governing techniques.
Democratising expertise? Lay citizens in the role of experts
In this post, Eva Krick discusses the involvement of ‘lay’ or ‘citizen experts’ in knowledge and advice production through practices such as citizen science, service user involvement and certain forms of citizen panels.
How British think tanks weathered the 2008 financial crisis
Marcos Gonzalez Hernando examines how think tanks were challenged and changed by the financial crisis.
Beyond diagnosis? Shifting approaches in psychiatry
The use of biological ideas and techniques in the study of mental ill-health and the practice of psychiatry is nothing new. But just because it isn’t new doesn’t mean that’s the only thing that’s going on in research and in the clinic: many other notions (psychological, sociological, and so on) interpolate with somatic emphases in psychiatry.
How to engage effectively and ‘speak truth to power’
Paul Cairney discusses notions of trust and the idea of ‘speaking truth to power’ for scientists in science policy debates with policymakers.
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