This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to
cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This …

The covid-19 crisis has shown how countries initially responded to a global challenge on
their own, instead of relying on a multilateral science diplomacy—based response …

Pressing global challenges, such as climate change, the COVID19 pandemic, or antibiotic
resistance, require coordinated international responses guided by evidenceinformed …

The art and craft of science advice is not innately known by those scientists who choose to
step out of the lab or the university to engage with the world of policy. Despite a wealth of …

Science advice for governments attracted great scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic,
with the public spotlight on institutions and individual experts—putting science advice on the …

The continuing importance of public health is not hard to see. Even before the COVID-19
pandemic, the continuing challenge of the Ebola virus in sub-Saharan Africa, measles …

In postgraduate education, the supervisor is a very important actor in terms of the quality of
the education process. Therefore, how graduate students perceive supervisor is important in …

In this paper, we first give an overview of what has happened in Europe within the area of
regulation over the past 5 years or so. We then examine where the new European …

While there is worldwide tendency to promote the use of scientific evidence to inform policy
making, little has been done to train scientists and policy makers for this interaction. If we …

Through their engagements with science-policy, academics often have to revisit some of
their enduring assumptions and expectations about the world of policymaking. They have to …