Author: Dr Warren Pearce “This is to imagine that there could be a point where ethics and politics could perfectly coincide, and this is precisely what I am denying because it means erasing the violence that is inherent in sociability, violence that no contract or dialogue can eliminate because it constitutes one of their dimensions.” … Continue reading “Public participation, ethical expertise and epistemic authority: lessons from the IPCC”
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Ethics-policy advisory ecosystems (Part 1): a potted history
Why research how ethics advice is provided to governments? There is little existing evidence of who is providing ethics advice to governments, how this advice is organised and most importantly, what its impacts are. When we began planning this research, we therefore needed to provide a basic description of ethics advisory bodies across our national case … Continue reading “Ethics-policy advisory ecosystems (Part 1): a potted history”
Annual Board Meeting of the “Ethics & Expertise” Research Project
In a rare event of sunny and warm British summer, “Ethics & Expertise” project has brought together project team and Advisory Board to review the work done over the last year and set the direction for the next one. Over two days, we presented our emergent findings and ran a workshop with members of Ethox … Continue reading “Annual Board Meeting of the “Ethics & Expertise” Research Project”
Cultures of expertise on Wikipedia
Author: Warren Pearce, University of Sheffield Alongside interviews with key advisors and policymakers, and our witness seminars which facilitate discussions between people with historical experience of the ethical advisory landscape, the project team are examining how cultures of expertise become configured in an important site of publicly accessible knowledge: Wikipedia. The website’s importance to the topic of ethical … Continue reading “Cultures of expertise on Wikipedia”
COP29 and One Health agenda: where are the mechanisms to include ethics?
As COP29 wraps up, it is important to recognise the ethical issues that policymakers face when implementing the One Health approach and other health and climate change policies. The impact of climate change to health has been widely evidenced, including WHO’s work stream on Climate Change and Health. In the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), WHO … Continue reading “COP29 and One Health agenda: where are the mechanisms to include ethics?”
Ethics capabilities in civil service: reflections from a roundtable
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”
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”
Insights from NCOB strategy launch: Making Ethics Matter
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) have announced they are embarking on a new ambitious 5-year strategy, one that will see them working to place ethics at the heart of decisions regarding biomedicine and health, so we all benefit. This is an aim that links seamlessly with the motivations of our “Ethics & Expertise” project in partnership with the NCOB. … Continue reading “Insights from NCOB strategy launch: Making Ethics Matter”
Ethics Policy Advice and Adhocracy
The blog is written by Lars Wenzel, University of Bielefeld. Ethics Policy Advice and Adhocracy While conducting witness and expert interviews for the German and British case studies in the preliminary phase of the “Expertise and Ethics in Times of Crisis” project, multiple interviewees described the landscape of ethics advice during the Covid-19 pandemic as … Continue reading “Ethics Policy Advice and Adhocracy”