When: 5 May 2023, 12:00 – 14:00
Where: Conference room (A222), Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor, 1010 Vienna
In this talk I will present the results of the Italian branch of the international research project ESCaPE (Evaluating Scientific Advice in a Pandemic Emergency) which I led in 2020-21 and which aimed at understanding how expert advice was sought, produced, and utilized in the management of the Covid-19 emergency in Italy.
This case study provides an overview and encompassing representation of the mobilization of experts, and of selected types of evidence, in Italy in 2020. The findings of this study suggest that expert politics can lead to the confirmation of knowledge hierarchies that privilege hard sciences, and corroborate prior literature indicating that economic and social expertise has not been well integrated into public health expert advice, constituting a major challenge for policymaking during an emergency.
You can find a summary of the research here:
and the article published in Nature Humanities & Social Sciences communications in 2022 here:
Dr Silvia Camporesi 
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