The way you frame a question can lead to radically different answers — even though different framings are equally valid. How does science advice help to meet these challenges?
Working at the science-policy interface requires a range of skills, knowledge and attitudes.
Fresh from their work collecting evidence to inform screening programmes in the EU, Professors Rebecca Fitzgerald and Harry De Koning discuss the role of evidence in cancer screening policy and how it interfaces with clinical judgement and patient choice.
Could the implications of science advice, and the policies that follow from it, be decided by a citizen jury following a courtroom battle between scientific adversaries?
Migration policy is an area where high-minded principles drive headlong into authentic realpolitik.
Science journalist Bianca Nogrady has researched the increasing issue of abuse and threats directed at science advisors.
Professor Ortwin Renn is one of Europe’s leading academic authorities on scientific advice, complexity and risk.
What joint challenges are faced by policy advisors and TV advisors?
How do courts use scientific advice, and when does it change public policy?
What’s the secret behind the success of the world’s most famous science advice mechanism?
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