This #GlobalEthicsDay, we’ve been reflecting at the ESRC “Ethics and Expertise” policy roundtable with UK experts on how science, policy and ethics intersect. We wanted to find out more about whether ‘ethics expertise’ and ‘ethics training’ are needed or wanted as part of the professional capabilities of civil servants, what kinds of forms this might … Continue reading “Ethics capabilities in civil service: reflections from a roundtable”
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Ethics and Expertise in times of crisis: takeaways from the 2nd Advisory Board meeting
The ESRC-funded “Ethics and Expertise” project has been progressing over the last year and is currently in its data collection phase. In July 2024, researchers from participating institutions, including the Universities of Birmingham, Bielefeld, Sheffield, Melbourne, and Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB), had the second meeting with the project’s Advisory Board in Berlin. The meeting … Continue reading “Ethics and Expertise in times of crisis: takeaways from the 2nd Advisory Board meeting”
Civic Epistemologies and comparative analysis
Author: Prof. Dr. Holger Straßheim This is Part 2 of Prof Staßheim’s reflections of international comparative analysis of ethics bodies and committees. Part 1 foced on the institutional embeddedness of ethics advice. In the last blog we explored how science-policy interactions, and by extension ethics – policy interactions are culturally and institutionally embedded. This helps us to … Continue reading “Civic Epistemologies and comparative analysis”