Past Events

23 Oct 2025

Topic modelling UK science advisory committees during Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic challenged pandemic preparedness strategy. Decades of planning were abandoned as governments followed the lead of Chinese authorities in implementing lockdowns, social distancing, and other novel non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent healthcare systems being overwhelmed.

23 Apr 2025

Whose Knowledge? Patterns of Committee Witnesses in Spain’s Congress of Deputies

An important way of understanding the place of parliaments in democratic governance is their role as 'knowledge institutions' (Geddes 2023)

05 Apr 2025

Beyond Partisanship: How Local Beliefs Shape Misinformation

Why do some misinformation narratives become widespread while others do not? Although the study of misinformation is rapidly growing, much of the research has focused on false information that has already gained significant traction.

19 Mar 2025

Narrating Numbers: Expertise in the Age of Datafied Governance

Recent decades have witnessed a metric turn in evidence-informed policymaking with a proliferation of quantification as a key mode of policy formulation and evaluation.

06 Mar 2024

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.

12 Feb 2025

Do Visual Benchmarks Change Government Evaluations? Survey Experimental Evidence from the UK

Governments, policy-makers, and media increasingly use quantitative materials including data and visualizations for strategic and political reasons.

29 Jan 2025

Lived Experience as evidence? Exploring a governance-driven perspective

A participatory turn has occurred in recent years, which claims to centre citizen’s voices in knowledge production and policymaking processes.

05 Dec 2024

Science Advice and Policy Influence: The Case of the Swedish Climate Policy Council

Since 2008, more than 40 countries have established climate councils. Most often, these councils are supported by a policy framework including a climate act, which defines targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Today, this is the case in many EU countries and the councils’ mandate is given in relation to the act, which means that governments must listen to the advice.

16 Oct 2024

The Authority of Science in Parliamentary Debates: An Epistemic Governance Perspective

This presentation draws together the key results from Jukka Syväterä's research project on the authority of science and expert knowledge in the parliamentary debates over new legislation.

16 Oct 2024

The Authority of Science in Parliamentary Debates: An Epistemic Governance Perspective

This presentation draws together the key results from Jukka Syväterä's research project on the authority of science and expert knowledge in the parliamentary debates over new legislation.

26 Sep 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.

26 Sep 2024

Why Transparency Can’t Guarantee Market Justice: The Case of Pharmaceuticals

The controversies surrounding the heavily redacted contracts between the European Commission and COVID-19 vaccine producers have highlighted ‘transparency’ as a hotly debated concept in the European pharmaceutical market, but calls for more transparency are also heard frequently in other markets, including, most recently, in those involving AI technologies.

26 Sep 2024

Roundtable for Early Career Researchers, With Professor Susi Geiger

26 Mar 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 out an international review of contemporary definitions and conceptualisations of impact.  We are now able to make the resulting research…

26 Mar 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 out an international review of contemporary definitions and conceptualisations of impact. We are now able to make the resulting research public.

20 Mar 2024

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.

List events content

Topic modelling UK science advisory committees during Covid-19

Whose Knowledge? Patterns of Committee Witnesses in Spain’s Congress of Deputies

Beyond Partisanship: How Local Beliefs Shape Misinformation

Narrating Numbers: Expertise in the Age of Datafied Governance

How reliable is the scientific literature?

Do Visual Benchmarks Change Government Evaluations? Survey Experimental Evidence from the UK

Lived Experience as evidence? Exploring a governance-driven perspective

Science Advice and Policy Influence: The Case of the Swedish Climate Policy Council

The Authority of Science in Parliamentary Debates: An Epistemic Governance Perspective

The Authority of Science in Parliamentary Debates: An Epistemic Governance Perspective

Roundtable for Early Career Researchers, With Professor Susi Geiger

Why Transparency Can’t Guarantee Market Justice: The Case of Pharmaceuticals

Roundtable for Early Career Researchers, With Professor Susi Geiger

Scoping Impact: An International Study of Contemporary Definitions and Conceptualisations of Impact by Funders of Social Science Research

Scoping Impact: An International Study of Contemporary Definitions and Conceptualisations of Impact by Funders of Social Science Research

The Material Political Economy of Prediction