Even before the pandemic, the role that knowledge and experts played in our democracies was a complicated one. COVID-19 supercharged the visibility of science-policy interfaces, and amplified the challenges. Sabina Leonelli leads a fabulously wide-ranging discussion with respected STI scholar, Daniel Sarewitz, on the past and future of the science/policy interactions upon which our societies rely.
Show Notes
Featuring:
- Prof Daniel Sarewitz, Emeritus Professor, Arizona State University
- Prof Sabina Leonelli, Philosophy and History of Science, University of Exeter
Even before the pandemic, the role that robust knowledge and experts played in our democracies was a complicated one. Technology, globalisation, demographic change, and other major shifts in all of our lives feel like they have been moving faster than the collective processes we put in place to understand and deal with them as societies. The solutions to these issues are likely to be as complicated as the problems.
Prof Daniel Sarewitz has been the Editor-in-Chief on Issues in Science and Technology and has written for some of the most prestigious journals and magazines in the world. Recently retired from Arizona State University, Prof Sarewitz joins the INGSA Horizon Stage to discuss the challenges, opportunities and risks for evidence in democracy.
Prof Sabina Leonelli is Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Exeter, UK. She is a leading scholar in the study of the impact of Big and Open Data on research and wider society, and the philosophy of Open Science during 2022 she is based in Berlin as a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, working on her project "
Excellence and Diversity in Global Scientific Practice".
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Great conversations at the intersection between science, society and policy. Brought to you by the world's leading network for science advice and science diplomacy practitioners, INGSA Horizons is a podcast of challenging topics of interest to everyone. COVID pulled back the curtain on the importance of good science informing smart policy - join us as we explore this critical, but often invisible, space between.