Misaligned or mismanaged? Exploring the role of expectations and tacit negotiations in expert advice - the case of environmental science-policy in the

在我的博士项目中，我打算研究英国环境科学政策中的建议提供机构。我认为，在过去的几年里，科学和社会之间的隐性契约已经发生了显著的变化，但关于科学如何与政策相关的某些日期预期和行为仍然存在。在气候和环境科学政策方面，这一点尤其严重，这通常被认为是非正常的，许多科学家继续坚持认为，更好的科学和证据将导致更好的政策结果。现有的学术工作已经研究了科学和专家建议的各种作用和配置。然而，还没有人系统地研究内部持有的期望如何影响科学家和专家参与政策建议的方式，以及这些期望是如何(默契地)谈判的。我建议，这样的研究项目必须既审查知识的政治，也审查参与政策建议的边界组织内的沟通和知识中介的作用。我已经确定了潜在的研究地点，包括正式的科学咨询机构(英国CCC和Defra SAC)和非正式的科学政策网络(cSAP和NERC政策安置奖学金计划)。最后，为了研究这些组织的服务认识论和制度认识论，我提出了三种定性的方法：专家访谈、定性内容分析和民族志。

For my PhD project I intend to study the institutions of advice-giving in UK environmental science-policy. I argue that,over the past few years, the implicit contract between science and society has markedly changed, and yet certain datedexpectations and behaviours about how science relates to policy persist. This is particularly severe in the case of climateand environmental science-policy, which has typically been qualified as post-normal and where many scientists continueto uphold the belief that better science and evidence will lead to better policy outcomes. Existing scholarly work hasexamined the various roles and configurations of scientific and expert advice. However, no one has systematically lookedinto how internally-held expectations shape the ways in which scientists and experts engage with policy advice, and howthese expectations are (tacitly) negotiated. I suggest that such a research project must examine both the politics ofknowledge and the role of communication and knowledge-brokering within boundary organisations involved in policyadvice. I have identified potential sites of study - including formal science advisory bodies (UK CCC and Defra SAC) andinformal science-policy networks (CSaP and NERC Policy Placement Fellowship Scheme). Finally, in order to study thecivic and institutional epistemologies of these organisations, I propose to triangulate three qualitative methods: expertinterviews, qualitative content analysis, and ethnography.