In light of the storylistening article in Science, Sarah joined Bob McDonald on Canada’s CBC radio science programme ‘Quirks and Quarks’ to discuss how rigorous analysis of narratives can complement scientific data in informing public policy for global issues like climate change and space exploration.
Tag: policy
In this contribution to Science‘s policy forum, Claire and Sarah explain how expert analysis of narratives can complement and strengthen scientific evidence, laying out how storylistening can be incorporated into the mechanisms and institutions of public reasoning, and what this means for scientists.
In October 2022, Sarah and Rachel Fisher (Deputy Director for Land Use Policy at Defra) joined a cross-disciplinary group of academics as part of a Cambridge Zero Policy Forum roundtable discussion on narratives and their links with climate change policy. This blog summarises the highlights of the discussion.
In 2021, the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) is producing an interview series with some of the key global practitioners at the interfaces between science, policy and society. This INGSA Horizon Series looks beyond the immediate lessons of the pandemic to how the complex systems of our society need to adapt to face future wicked challenges. Sarah interviewed Claire about the implications of Storylistening for practitioners working at the science/society/policy interface.
In April, Sarah presented material on decolonising the future, climate change, and N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy from Chapter 4 of Storylistening at an academic conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Literature and Science. Her talk was part of a panel on Literature, Science and Policy, with presentations also given by Professor Genevieve Liveley, on narratology and cyber security policy, and by Lt Col David Calder, on science fiction’s critical utility in a military context. You can listen to the presentation here: