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”
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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”
Australian AI in health ethics witness seminar
Author: Dr Sarah Ball In November 2024, the Australian investigators for the ESRC funded project “Expertise and Ethics in Times of Crisis” ran a witness seminar with six deidentified participants to get a better understanding of the ethics advisory landscape in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in health policy. During this seminar we learned a lot about the … Continue reading “Australian AI in health ethics witness seminar “
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”
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”
Insights from “Rebuilding trust and integrity in the Australian Public Service” conference
Author: Dr Sarah Ball Our ESRC funded project “Expertise and Ethics in Times of Crisis” explores forms of ethical advice provided to governments and how that advice is perceived. While we are specifically focused on cases of crisis, the institutional forms and cultural norms surrounding the provision of ethical advice influence how and when that advice is … Continue reading “Insights from “Rebuilding trust and integrity in the Australian Public Service” conference”
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”