Christiane Gerblinger on how experts self-sabotage
Science for Policy
English - January 16, 2023 05:45 - 31 minutes - 51.4 MBScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When science advisors are employed by governments, how do they reconcile the competing needs to accurately convey the science, while ensuring it can be of maximum use in the current political context?
Dr Christiane Gerblinger has one answer: her research suggests that advisors adopt strategies to make themselves deliberately ignorable.
Resources mentioned in this episode
How Government Experts Self-Sabotage: The language of the rebuffed. https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/how-government-experts-self-sabotage