Frontiers Policy Labs at Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) 2022
Published on August 10th, 2022
Studio ESOF2022: The missing link of science in policy – 1M scientists and 100M hours could be part of the answer
If the time that scientists donate to shape advice across governments were recognised, valued or rewarded by their institutions, could a new culture emerge? Would closer, more dynamic engagement produce better policy and more effective action?
At Europe’s largest interdisciplinary science conference, Professor Ruth Morgan, Vice Dean (Interdisciplinarity Entrepreneurship) at UCL, and Jean-Claude Burgelman, Frontiers Policy Labs editor in chief, call for new incentives to bring scientific advice closer to policy at the heart of government.
Does good science lead to good advice and policymaking? Rethinking the science advice–policy link in the aftermath of COVID-19
This panel presents and discusses the results of a series of interviews with seven selected top-level science advisors, experts and policy makers conducted in the frame of Frontiers Policy Labs during the timeframe 2020/2021. Our qualitative research addresses the questions of how to change the world with science and how to change science to better serve the world. What can we learn from policymaking around COVID-19 on how the world can better prepare for quick response to emergencies? We discuss how the science system, as it was set up globally pre-COVID, contributed to the failures/ successes observed. The goal is targeted at real-world solutions to these systemic successes and failures and how to be better prepared in future health and environmental crises. Interviews were conducted with top policymakers from Australia, Canada, Japan, Europe, and the United States.
Panelists:
Remi Quirion, Inaugural Chief Scientist of Quebec and the President of the three Board of Directors, Fonds de recherche du Québec, and President Elect of INGSA.
Mamokghethi Phakeng, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town
Ruth Morgan, Vice Dean (Interdisciplinarity Entrepreneurship), UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Professor of Crime and Forensic Science, UCL Department of Security and Crime Science
Jean-Claude Burgelman is professor of Open Science Policies and Practices at the Free University of Brussels; Faculty of Social Science and Solvay Business School. He retired from the European Commission as Open Access Envoy and head of unit Open Science at DG RTD.
Caroline Wagner is a professor at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University since 2011, where she is an affiliate of Battelle Center for Science in the Public Interest, and the East Asian Studies Center. From 2011 until 2021, she held the Milton & Roslyn Wolf Chair in International Affairs.
