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.
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.
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.
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.
Based on one of our recent seminars, Nicolas Zehner summarises his research on the Edinburgh City Region, exploring the role of higher education institutions in shaping their environments.
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.
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.
Marcos Gonzalez Hernando examines how think tanks were challenged and changed by the financial crisis.
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.
Susan Owens, Fellow of the British Academy, introduces her Skape Keynote Lecture, 30 May 2018.
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