A5037165184- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- European Union Policy and Governance
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Canadian Policy and Governance
- Hormonal and reproductive studies
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Higher Education Governance and Development
- Research Data Management Practices
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- European and International Law Studies
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Education and Public Policy
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
Örebro University
2020-2024
De Montfort University
2023
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2015-2019
University of Lisbon
2017
University of York
2012
Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems
2012
Abstract This article analyses the margin of manoeuvre Portuguese executives after onset sovereign debt crisis in 2010–2015. To obtain a full understanding what happened behind closed doors international meetings, different types data are triangulated: face‐to‐face interviews; investigations by journalists; and International Monetary Fund European Union official documents. The findings compared to public discourse Prime Ministers José Sócrates Pedro Passos‐Coelho. It is shown that while...
Crisis, by its very nature, requires decisive intervention. However, important questions can be obscured the immediacy of crisis condition. What is nature crisis? How it defined (and whom)? And, subsequently, what forms knowledge are deemed legitimate and authoritative for informing interventions? As we see in current pandemic, there a desire immediate answers solutions during periods uncertainty. Policymakers publics grasp techno-scientific solutions, as though technical self-evident. often...
What role should social science play in the work for transforming society towards sustainability? The background this question is that despite massive investments environmental research and accumulation of data on human impact environment, action remains insufficient. severity current situation has led to conclusion moderate change not enough; there a need fundamental transformative society. How expertise contribute epistemic normative point departure paper. This paper aims develop theory...
Despite forces struggling to reduce global warming growing stronger, there has been mixed success in generating substantive policy implementation, while the spread of coronavirus prompted strong and far-reaching governmental responses around world. This paper addresses complex partly contradictory these two crises, investigating their social anatomies. Using temporality, spatiality, epistemic authority as main conceptual vehicles, crises are systematically compared. sharing a number...
The relationship between the Euro crisis and austerity policies is often understood in terms of broadly deterministic explanations centred around economic imperatives and, case bailed out countries, conditionality international lenders. Applying a multi-lens framework depoliticisation to Portugal 2011 2015, this article instead refocuses analysis on discourse employed by national politicians, their construction narratives, build political authority pass reforms. Portuguese particularly...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global event, but what became apparent almost immediately was that while the virus seems indiscriminate, vulnerability and capacity to mitigate its impact are not spread equally, either between or within countries. Years of austere neoliberalism in Europe have exacerbated inequality precarity, acting as ‘pre-existing condition’ onto which has now landed. question we ask is: when subsides, can underlying conditions contemporary remain? And may replace it?
To what extent has the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) succeeded in its ambition to shape a more diverse environmental expertise? In ways are diversity important IPCC? What purposes does serve IPCC’s production of global assessments and thus knowledge general? These questions explored by analyzing quantitative demographic data latest two assessment cycles (AR5 AR6) qualitative from semi-structured interview study with IPCC experts. The analysis shows that there have been...
Abstract The global environmental crisis is the result of a complex web causation and distributed agency, where not even most powerful individual actors can be considered responsible nor remedy situation alone. This has prompted multiple calls across societies for transformative social change. What role accountability play in this context? Starting theoretical traditions microsociology pragmatic sociology, article elaborates interactions. To provide an account that justifies action or...
In his recent article, Newman argues that the different perspectives within literature on evidence-based policymaking, broadly distinguished between rationalists and constructivists, have failed to produce a productive scholarly debate. A solution overcome this often vitriolic impasse is for scholars be more accepting of goals each approach. This response challenges Newman's argument basis three weaknesses: failure properly understand incommensurability ontological epistemological positions;...
Abstract This article discusses “academic housekeeping” undertaken within IPCC, understood as the work that is rarely made visible or rewarded, but nevertheless essential to success of organization. It explores conditions, motivations, and implications for individual researchers involved in with particular emphasis on invisible, un(der)recognised unrewarded they engage in. The empirical material consists an interview study IPCC assessment work. concludes a discussion experts, expert...
What is the role of expertise in reproducing austerity and how might this be challenged by left? The implementation policies, widespread public backlash to these policies that has played their have contributed highlighting many pathologies neoliberalism, particularly widening geographical intergenerational divisions. This article adopts sociological approach developed Harry Collins colleagues ‘Studies Expertise Experience’ field. Here understood as relational sense not recognized extent...
Purpose A response to Chatwin's article (2010), which argues that European harmonisation of illicit drug policies remains far from realisation, this paper seeks recommend developing a more specific conceptualisation integration in the area drugs and was not realistic aim Union (EU). Design/methodology/approach This is review advocate application rigid analytical framework policy analysis takes into account “soft” methods governance used by EU. The also uses secondary data sources emphasise...
Abstract In line with the IPCC’s own mandate to select a more diverse group of experts contribute their assessments, proportion women and participants from Global South has increased over recent assessment cycles. Criticisms remain, however, continued dominance institutions North, relative place different disciplinary transdisciplinary knowledges in extent which, once selected participate, underrepresented groups have space opportunity speak be heard. Taken together, these criticisms point...
This paper examines the sociological importance of expert knowledge in COVID-19 pandemic. Through this expertise, it is possible to follow patterns infections, fatalities and recoveries almost real time, crucial for countries when deciding on relevant governmental strategies control spread. The stresses that there was a strong institutional machinery expertise data production dissemination, despite rather different national ambitions detection (both concerning infections mortalities),...
The British university system is in a deep crisis, born of two-pronged assault. crisis firstly from decades neoliberal marketisation and the rise remote authoritarian executive elite presiding over downwardly mobile culturally deprivileged academic profession. We call this process managerialism. It secondly ideological political assault on universities, currently led by Tories, reflecting resurgence anti-intellectualism since millennium. paper argues that although these currents embody...