In a letter published today in Nature, STEPS co-director Andy Stirling and Clive Mitchell (Scottish Natural Heritage) suggest that ‘open-mindedness’ is a key principle in making evidence synthesis more useful…
How can we reveal power and bias when synthesising evidence for policy?
Video: Andy Stirling on Grand Challenges, interdisciplinary research and transformations
The Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences have published video of a lecture (40 min) by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling at Keele University on 1 November 2017. In the lecture,…
Andy Stirling, STEPS co-director, made Academy of Social Sciences Fellow
Professor Andy Stirling has been conferred the award of Fellow by the Academy of Social Sciences (ACSS), who announced the news on Friday 31 March 2017.
Civilising Hypocrisies and Fundamental Questions: on “emancipating transformations”
This week Manchester Tyndall Centre hosted a provocative and highly interesting seminar. Professor Andy Stirling, who spent the 80s in the trenches for Greenpeace, had schlepped up to deliver a…
Iran’s environmental crisis: why we should be mindful of depicting a dystopian future
In our age of computers and satellites, our sense of both urgency and fear has become central to the process of addressing environmental challenges. This sense of necessity for urgent…
Andy Stirling on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Moral Maze’: Is Science Morally Neutral?
STEPS co-director Andy Stirling was one of the ‘witnesses’ in an interesting debate on the Moral Maze last night, discussing ethics and democracy in science. (Update, 14 March 2016: Andy…
Responses to frequently asked questions on genetically-modified crops and development
GM Rice / BASF / Flickr Creative Commons By Andy Stirling, co-director of the STEPS Centre Questions are never far from the headlines about how the world can farm more fairly,…
Fear of flying: the uneasy marriage of numbers and risk
STEPS Centre co-director Prof Andy Stirling has written an article for the Guardian‘s new blog, Political Science, about how using numbers to communicate risk can create a false sense of…
New Andy Stirling presentations
A collection of presentations recently given by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling on: civil society and the direction of innovation; the implications of uncertainty for science policy; knowledge and innovation implications for…
A MANIFESTO TO MAKE INNOVATION DELIVER FOR DEVELOPMENT
Billions spent yet millions live in poverty Radical change needed in science, technology & innovation Out-of-date innovation policy is undermining unprecedented opportunities for development aid to improve the environment and…