Fred Fenter and Stephan Kuster on the scientific community's response to COVID-19
Science for Policy
English - February 22, 2021 05:45 - 33 minutes - 47.6 MBScience Homepage Download IPFS Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Pieter Duisenberg, Liesbeth Hulst and Joost Sneller on science in the Dutch parliament
Next Episode: Tracey Brown on data modelling in policy advice
What does the worldwide scientific community think of how science advice was used in 2020? What impact have lockdown, home-working and the race for a vaccine had on the life and work of individual scientists? Have other areas of science-related policy, such as climate change, been boosted or sidelined since COVID?
Fred Fenter and Stephan Kuster discuss these questions with Toby Wardman of SAPEA. We also discuss whether a worldwide crisis helps or hinders the cause of open access publishing, whether it has made the scientific community more connected or more disjointed, and why giving public science advice is a risky and often thankless task.
Resources mentioned in this episode
Research paper on the academic response to COVID-19: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.621563/full