Politics is not the same as policy. Yet for humanity to surmount the truly global challenges before us, the day-to-day churn of political cycles somehow needs to create policy with an eye to the distant future. Given what has happened in the year since this was filmed (May 2024), Sir Jeremy Farrar’s words seem prescient…
The project ‘Building capacity for evidence-informed policymaking in governance and public administration in a post-pandemic Europe’ was inspired by the need of Member States to respond to complex policy issues requiring specialised knowledge, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic led to a widespread recognition in governments that the use of evidence in advising policy…
Nature Human Behaviour volume 9, pages331–344 (2025) Public trust in scientists is critical to our ability to face societal threats. Here, across five pre-registered studies (N = 2,034), we assessed whether perceptions of scientists’ intellectual humility affect perceived trustworthiness of scientists and their research. In study 1, we found that seeing scientists as higher in intellectual humility was associated with…
“Deliberative democracy is a term that would have been met with blank stares in academic and political circles just a few decades ago. Yet this approach, which examines ways to directly connect citizens with decision-making processes, has now become central to many calls for government reform across the world. This surge in interest was firstly…
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