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)
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.
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.
Democratising expertise? Lay citizens in the role of experts Read More »
In the Finnish context, the term expert-by-experience is used to refer to people with prior social problems who have been invited to act as ‘experts’ in CSOs and public sector organisations. The term was introduced in the Finnish context by mental health organisations, following the introduction of a strong participatory emphasis on the Finnish social policy outlines. Now, it is a hugely popular concept and an approach that is largely developed in projects – both in the public and the third sector. Despite its popularity, the term remains ambiguous and is used to signify a variety of people and activities.
What happens when journalists join in the discussion in the often-frightening comments section below their articles?
Why journalists should engage with their readers: a view from Slovakia Read More »
Book review: Drawing on a detailed case study of Scotland’s National Health Service, Publics and Their Health Systems: Rethinking Participation is a novel contribution to the growing academic engagement with the institutionalisation of public participation as a routine feature of governance.
Book review: publics and their health systems: rethinking participation by Ellen Stewart Read More »
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