What is Trust? – Whom to Trust? – How to trust in Knowledge, Science, and Technology? Those are the overarching questions in the recently published Routledge Handbook of Trust in Philosophy, edited by PERITIA Advisory Board member Judith Simon, Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies at the Universität Hamburg, Germany, and member of the German […]
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This morning, we proudly published the first issue of the PERITIA newsletter! Full of highlights from turbulent five project months, the newsletter introduces the project’s research agenda and provides an excellent selection of ongoing research, interviews, news articles, academic papers, podcasts, webinars, and much more, emphasizing three key questions of PERITIA that turned into global […]
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The Workshop “Social Indicators of Trust in Experts” had to be postponed due to the corona crisis. NEW DATE: 3-4 June 2021! The aim of this conference is to help understand what informal social indicators people use in order to evaluate the trustworthiness of experts. Among the informal social indicators there are emotions, gossip, authority, […]
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PERITIA – Policy, Expertise and Trust – has revamped its online presence with a new look and added features. Our objective is to be a highly informative, balanced and constantly updated source for anyone who is interested in the relationship of policy, expertise and trust. The project website as well as Twitter and Facebook channels […]
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The COVID-19 outbreak has become a real-time test for the role of experts in governance. Scientists and experts are in the spotlight of daily debates. Excellent, timely and independent science advice is at the core of government actions to tackle this health emergency. Policymakers and experts are working together to make use of the best evidence and knowledge available. All this requires communicating scientific knowledge and uncertainty under extraordinary circumstances.
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PERITIA’s consortium partner University College Dublin is interested in hosting applications for the Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship 2020 call. Applications are welcome on topics relevant to the aims and objectives of the PERITIA project. The potential mentors and areas of research for this particular call are: Professor Maria Baghramian: Public Trust, Experts and Expertise, The […]
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Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (UniSR) in Milan is inviting applications for two full-time postdoctoral research fellows within PERITIA on “Behavioural tools for building trust” at the Faculty of Philosophy. Candidates must hold a degree in Philosophy, Economics, Cognitive Sciences or Psychology, studying trusting behaviour towards science institutions and authorities. Deadline for applications for both positions […]
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We are inviting applications for a full-time postdoctoral research fellow with a background in (behavioural) economics or similar at University College Dublin. The successful candidate will work across the Centre for Ethics in Public Life and the Geary Institute for Public Policy on a project beginning in September 2020 (with some flexibility) and lasting for […]
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PERITIA investigator and Work Package Leader Gloria Origgi reflects on what she names the “reputation age”, in which we should rank the quality of information not by its content but by the agenda of its source. Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now There is an underappreciated paradox of knowledge that […]
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PERITIA calls for abstracts for an International Conference on Trust and Media Date: March 18-19, 2021 Location: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), Berlin, Germany Keynotes: Prof Onora O’Neill (Cambridge), Prof Natali Helberger (Amsterdam), Prof Michael Latzer (Zurich), Prof Christoph Neuberger (Berlin) Organizers: Prof José van Dijck, Dr Donya Alinejad (Utrecht University) and Daniel […]
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