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26 September 2025

Lived experience as evidence in anti-poverty policy making: a governance-driven perspective

By Clementine O’Connor and Hayley Bennett In early 2025 we gave a SKAPE presentation called ‘Lived Experience as Evidence’ at Edinburgh Uni. We focussed on exploring the differences

12 June 2025

SKAPE Workshop Sparks New Research Outputs on ‘Cultures of Evidence’

By Kat Smith, Niklas Andersen and Valérie Pattyn. In June 2022, the University of Edinburgh played host to a vibrant workshop on “cultures of evidence,”

24 November 2024

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

Incentivising and supporting the ‘impact’ of social science research has become an objective for funding bodies in the UK and worldwide over recent decades.

24 June 2024

The University As Infrastructure of Becoming: Re-Activating Academic Freedom Through Humility in Times of Radical Uncertainty

Higher education institutions (HEIs) matter. As key knowledge-making infrastructures of the 21st century, they sit at the nexus of knowledge and power.

16 October 2023

Former SKAPE co-director Marc Geddes awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his work exploring the relationship between parliament and knowledge

School of Social and Political Science (SPS) academic and SKAPE’s former co-director, Dr Marc Geddes has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for research exploring the relationship between parliament and knowledge.

06 September 2023

Developing the Fission-Fusion Concept: A Journey through the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences (Part 2)

06 September 2023

Developing the Fission-Fusion Concept: A Journey through the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences (Part 1)

13 June 2023

Community health: radical revolution or conservative coloniality?

Margaret Odera, who lives in Mathare, Kenya, is the world’s most visible Community Health Worker (CHW). She has travelled the globe, recently addressing the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva […]

24 May 2023

Cultures of Evidence series 3: Research with social impact and the Spanish case

Dialogue between academia, politics and society has been an ongoing challenge at an international level. In the case of Spain, the disconnect between citizenship and the creation of scientific knowledge and its use in public policy was exacerbated by the hierarchical and authoritarian character that the dictatorial regime (1939-1975) instilled in social organisations, including academia. The following lines analyse how universities and public policies have been progressively oriented towards incorporating scientific evidence of social impact co-constructed with citizens.

13 April 2023

Cultures of Evidence series 2:The Normative Turn in Evidence and Policy From ‘Evidence Use’ to the ‘Good Governance of Evidence’

How do we improve the use of evidence for policymaking? This seemingly simple question does not have a correspondingly simple answer.

07 March 2023

Cultures of Evidence series 1: Comparing cultures of evidence use in policy settings

For two days in Summer 2022, SKAPE hosted a workshop that gathered a number of distinguished scholars whose work has explored the ways in which knowledge and evidence are used […]

28 February 2023

“Financial climate data needs to be shaped, it needs to be curated – but by who?”: An interview with Dr Julius Kob

Asli Ates (University of Sussex) and Robert Bergsvik (Wageningen University) interview our seminar speaker, Dr Julius Kob (Warwick Business School), about his recent work on financial climate data.

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