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January 2025
Lived Experience as evidence? Exploring a governance-driven perspective

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. ...
29 Jan 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building, Room 3.15
December 2024
Göran Sundqvist Science Advice and Policy Influence: The Case of the Swedish Climate Council

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. ...
05 Dec 2024
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
University of Edinburgh - Violet Laidlaw Room
Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building
October 2024
September 2024
Why Transparency Can’t Guarantee Market Justice

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. ...
26 Sep 2024
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
University of Edinburgh - Violet Laidlaw Room
Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building
March 2024
February 2024
January 2024
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 ...
15 Nov 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Conf Room 2.15
Chrystal Macmillan Building
October 2023
September 2023
June 2023

Are We Really in a Post-Truth Era? COVID Conspiracies, Science, and Colonial Imaginaries

Amit Prasad (Georgia Tech) will explore COVID-19 conspiracies, scientific credibility, and the enduring legacies of colonialism. This seminar will be chaired by Professor Martyn Pickersgill (U. Edinburgh), and Professor Anne-Maree Farrell (U. Edinburgh) will serve as discussant. Registration is required for this event. ...
23 Jun 2023
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Seminar Room 1
Chrystal Macmillan Building
May 2023
April 2023

SKAPE Covid roundtable III: “COVID, long or short: the links between Citizen Knowledge, Public Participation and the governance of COVID”

Please join us for the third panel discussion in our roundtable series on the COVID-19 pandemic. We look forward to welcoming Carol Porteous (Patient Public Involvement Lead at Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility, University of Edinburgh), Professor Albert Tenesa (University of Edinburgh), and Professor Felicity Callard (University of Glasgow) ...
20 Apr 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
University of Edinburgh - Violet Laidlaw Room
Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building
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