Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT)
Recent Submissions
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Post-normal science in practice: Reflections from scientific experts working on the European agri-food policy nexus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Post-Normal Science (PNS) emphasises the need for scientists and policy-makers to iteratively co-analyse and learn together, as part of an extended peer community. However, the roles and implications for scientific experts ... -
The politics of measurement and the case of energy efficiency policy in the European Union
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Energy efficiency is a policy strategy to make energy savings and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. This paper investigates the passage of amendments to the Energy Efficiency Directive during 2016–2018 as a case ... -
Transformative Translations? Challenges and tensions in territorial innovation governance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Since the 1990s, changing ways of producing and circulating knowledge have been accompanied by debates that diagnose and call for change in the relationship between science, society, politics, and innovation. Most recently ... -
Too hot or too cold: the biochemical basis of temperature-size rules for fish and other ectotherms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The well-established temperature-dependence of growth parameters and maximum sizes of fish and other water-breathing ectotherms (WBEs) form the basis for various “temperature-size rules” for fish and WBEs. Numerous ... -
The Platonism of Modern Physical Science: Historical Roots and “Rational Reconstruction”
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Perhaps the most influential historian of science of the last century, Alexandre Koyré, famously argued that the icon of modern science, Galileo Galilei, was a Platonist who had hardly performed experiments. Koyré has been ... -
Redemption, transcendence, and spirituality, or ease, hope, and comfort? On Llanera's strong redescription of Rorty
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism, Tracy Llanera places Richard Rorty in conversation with philosophers confronting nihilism as a “malaise of modernity.” She shows how Rortyan thought offers a horizontal and ... -
The history of hunger: Counting calories to make global food security legible
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU) is one of the most central indicators informing the international development agenda. Reported annually by the Rome-based UN agencies in their flagship report The State of Food ... -
What can mathematical modelling contribute to a sociology of quantification?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Sociology of quantification has spent relatively less energies investigating mathematical modelling than it has on other forms of quantification such as statistics, metrics, or algorithms based on artificial intelligence. ... -
Unpacking the modeling process for energy policy making
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article explores how the modeling of energy systems may lead to an undue closure of alternatives by generating an excess of certainty around some of the possible policy options. We retrospectively exemplify the problem ... -
Teaching scientific research integrity: A case study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The focus of this case study is the question, ‘How can research integrity be taught in higher education?’ I will share my experience of teaching this topic over the past three years, organising the various dimensions of ... -
What is Post-normal Science? A Personal Encounter
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)What is post-normal science? What are the reasons for, and consequences of, encountering it in one’s professional life? Here I share my own experience of readings, practices and discussions with the fathers, supporters and ... -
Learning together: facing the challenges of sustainability transitions by engaging uncertainty tolerance and post-normal science
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Current efforts towards sustainability tend to focus on maintaining existing systems and structures, by relying on reductionist approaches to problem solving. Increasingly, there is a call for more effective action in ... -
Affording excellence: What does excellence funding do for researchers?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The ambitions to fund excellent researchers and path-breaking research unite a whole family of funding instruments ranging from Centres of Excellence to individual grants. While instruments aimed at funding excellence share ... -
Implementing co-created citizen science in five environmental epidemiological studies in the CitieS-Health project
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background and aim Scientists and scientific institutions are adopting more extensive participatory models, hoping to revisit the existing relationship between science and society. Though citizen science has become more ... -
Toolkit for conducting citizen science activities in environmental epidemiology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Scientists and practitioners implementing citizen science projects, in which the involvement of citizens is key, often need ideas and tools that help in reaching citizens, engaging them in the project and maximizing their ... -
Boundary experts: Science and politics in measuring the Sustainable Development Goals
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) purport to cleanly separate politics and technical matters, embodied by the political negotiation of goals and targets, and the technical creation of an indicator framework. This ... -
Making sense of sensing homes: exploring ‘regimes of engagement’ in a smart urban energy context
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Visionary imaginaries of desirable ‘smart’ urban energy futures entice city governments into innovation and collaboration aimed at large-scale urbanism. As part of attending to actualizations and materializations of ‘smart’ ... -
Translating tools and indicators in territorial RRI
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Introduction: By a series of calls within the Horizon 2020 framework programme, the EU funded projects intended to deploy Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) at a territorial level, in regional research and innovation ... -
Co-producing representations of summer rainfall in Bangladesh
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Climate adaptation governance increasingly investigates the cultural capacities of communities to cope with climate variability and change. This paper reports on research of the symbolic representations of summer rainfall ...
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