This week’s STEPS Centre seminar will be with Alex Arnall of the University of Reading. Alex will discuss how, in one area of Mozambique, narratives about adapting to climate change…
STEPS Seminar this Wednesday: climate and resettlement in Mozambique
What role does the scientific community have in post-2015 debates?
ECOSOC, from unisgeneva’s photostream on Flickr by Pedro Telles, MA student, Institute of Development Studies Those who work in the development field currently find themselves in tricky debates around the…
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…
STEPS Symposium 2013: S is for Society
Susan Owens.Photo: Lance Bellers Guest blog by Sandra Pointel, Doctoral researcher, SPRU The last session of the STEPS Symposium on Credibility Across Cultures was promising. Its focus on “power, plurality…
Contested agronomy: low-level evidence, high-level claims
Demonstrating ‘impact’ has become a strong imperative for those involved in agricultural research. But this pressure has led to some large-scale claims for techniques that have only been tested at…
STEPS Symposium 2013: Beyond Rio+20 – Improving global structures for scientific advice
Lidia Brito. Photo: Lance Bellers Guest blog by Ruth Segal, Doctoral Researcher, SPRU In recent years, global initiatives have attempted to co-ordinate scientific advice and assessments – on climate…
STEPS Symposium 2013: Science and developing countries – whose expertise counts?
Dipak Gyawali at the symposium. Photo: Lance Bellers Guest blog by Rachael Taylor, PhD student, SPRU The second session of the STEPS Symposium on the global politics of scientific advice…
Anne Glover on science advice in Europe
The STEPS Centre’s symposium on the global politics of science advice looked at how evidence informs decision-making. The speakers included Prof Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Adviser to the President, European…
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STEPS Symposium 2013: Photo gallery
The 2013 STEPS Symposium, Credibility Across Cultures: expertise, uncertainty and the global politics of scientific advice, was held in February 2013 at the University of Sussex. Browse the photo gallery…