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“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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“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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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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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.

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