Outcomes
2022
In March 2022, The International Science Council reported about the group’s “Science ∞ Society” project in its blog here.
2021
In September 2021, group members together with the GYA Global Health working group organised an online panel discussion on “Hardcore science skepticism: what can young scientists do?“.
In June 2021, the group launched the first of a series of videos for their Science ∞ Society project.
2020
In December 2020, the group organised online seminars on “Media Communications”, with documentary filmmaker Nerina Finetto.
2019
In December, the group offered a two-hour webinar on “Science communication through blogs and video blogs”, organised by the group’s co-lead Lisa Herzog (Netherlands). GYA members and alumni, as well as members from a number of National Young Academies participated.
Working group member Koen Vermeir (France) argued for the importance of historical research for policy making at Oxford University in February 2019. He focused on past stratagems and discussions around fake science and showed that such epistemic considerations have to be understood in their proper context (including social and religious considerations). Historical analysis and contextualization will help to find more nuanced strategies for increasing public trust in science.
Members of this group published a paper on “Academic incentives need to change if we are to build trust in science” in Times Higher Education in February 2019.
2018
The group’s co-lead Lisa Herzog (Germany) participated in the meeting of the ALLEA (All European Academies) working group on “Truth, Trust and Expertise” in August 2018 in Amsterdam, NL.
Following a call by the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA), group members Lisa Herzog (Germany) and Robert Lepenies (Germany) and GYA alumnus Martin Dominik (UK) participated in a video competition on “Trust in science”. See here for more details and to watch the videos.
During the 2018 GYA Annual General Meeting, a number of GYA members responded to the group’s call and answered questions on the topic of trust in science and others regarding their research activities for filmmaker Nerina Finetto of www.tracesdreams.com. Watch the video on the GYA YouTube channel here.