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October 2025
Topic modelling UK science advisory committees during Covid-19
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic challenged pandemic preparedness strategy. Decades of planning ...
May 2025
Central Banks between Science and Politics
The works presented in this seminar suggest a new conceptual framework distinguishing three separate processes of scientisation (policymaking, legitimizing, and contributory scientisation), held together by the idea that central banks are better defined as institutions operating as “boundary organisations”. ...
April 2025
Whose Knowledge? Patterns of Committee Witnesses in Spain’s Congress of Deputies
An important way of understanding the place of parliaments in ...
March 2025
Narrating Numbers: Expertise in the Age of Datafied Governance
Recent decades have witnessed a metric turn in evidence-informed policymaking ...
Beyond Partisanship: How Local Beliefs Shape Misinformation
Why do some misinformation narratives become widespread while others do not? In this seminar, Mariana Borges will provide evidence for the significance of processing fluency and cultural references in shaping susceptibility to misinformation. ...
February 2025
Do Visual Benchmarks Change Government Evaluations? Survey Experimental Evidence from the UK
William will present on a study showing that international comparisons in visual forms can change domestic opinion, and on matters beyond strictly economic performance. ...
January 2025
Lived Experience as evidence? Exploring a governance-driven perspective
In this talk Dr Hayley Bennett and Dr Clementine Hill O’Connor draw on participatory governance literature to consider the different drivers of the move towards the use of ‘lived experience’ in policymaking and identify how ‘lived experience’ connects to the evidence-use literature that considers how types of evidence are perceived and utilised in policymaking. ...
December 2024
Science Advice and Policy Influence: The Case of the Swedish Climate Policy Council
Since 2008, more than 40 countries have established climate councils. For these to be successful they should be science-based and politically independent, while maintaining close contact with the governments they review and advise. Göran Sundqvist (in-person) and Linnéa Aarthun (online) will examine how the Swedish Climate Council meets these “success criteria”; uses their autonomy to present consensus science-based advice that the government needs to listen to; and, their reflections on the political results. ...
October 2024
The Authority of Science in Parliamentary Debates: An Epistemic Governance Perspective
This presentation draws together the key results from Jukka Syväterä's research ...
September 2024
Roundtable for Early Career Researchers, With Professor Susi Geiger
SKAPE and Sociology's ‘What's Next Workshops’ are delighted to welcome Susi Geiger to lead a roundtable discussion, where early career researchers can discuss career strategies and research ideas. ...
Why Transparency Can’t Guarantee Market Justice: The Case of Pharmaceuticals
In this keynote address, Susi Geiger will interrogate the notion of transparency; demonstrate what the variable meanings and devisings of transparency in the pharmaceutical market has and has not achieved in making medicines more accessible; and, shed light on how struggles over the definition of transparency play a crucial role in the organization of markets. ...
March 2024
Scoping Impact: An International Study of Contemporary Definitions and Conceptualisations of Impact by Funders of Social Science Research
In 2023, SKAPE was commissioned by the ESRC to carry ...
The Material Political Economy of Prediction
We are pleased to invite you to an upcoming seminar by Prof Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh) on The Material Political Economy of Prediction. ...
How reliable is the scientific literature?
We are pleased to invite you to an upcoming SKAPE seminar on scientific publication and its discontents by Dr Willem Halffman. ...
February 2024
Beyond the ‘water level’: Entangled ontologies and epistemologies of groundwater monitoring in Maharashtra, India
Join us for a discussion with Dhaval Joshi from the University of Edinburgh as he explores the complexities of groundwater monitoring in Maharashtra, India. ...
January 2024
Book launch for States of Ignorance: Governing Irregular Migrants in Western Europe
We are pleased to invite you to the Book Launch for States of Ignorance, co-authored by Emile Chabal (Edinburgh), Christina Boswell (Edinburgh), Mike Slaven (Lincoln). ...
Pathways to Voluntary Labour: Storying Structural Violence in Kenya’s Primary Healthcare
Join Kathy Dodworth for a new SKAPE seminar on voluntary health work in Kenya. During the seminar, she will share insights from her research and on-the-ground experiences, and offer new perspectives on community health. ...
November 2023
Consensus and ideology in expert communities
Join us as we explore the intricate intersection of professional consensus and political ideology in the field of economics, drawing from the latest research by Tod Van Gunten at the University of Edinburgh ...
Scoping impact: Mapping contemporary trends in research impact definition
We are excited to invite you to a special seminar showcasing the work led by SKAPE's co-directors Nathan and Eugenia, as well as SKAPE member Hilary MacDonogh on the role of "impact" in research policy. ...
October 2023
SKAPE Keynote: Expertise in uncertain times
SKAPE is pleased to invite you all to the inaugural 2023-2024 Keynote seminar from Prof. Grundmann on the functions of expertise in times of populism and science scepticism ...
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