Thinking about expertise differently: GM risk assessment as an ecology of regulatory knowledge
The control over standards of regulatory evidence is one of the factors that determine who may be called an expert, despite the level of scrutiny and contestation that surrounds claims to expertise, specifically in public and controversial environments. The history of the regulatory testing of genetically modified organisms shows that that standards of proof are simultaneously shaped in various inter-related spaces (industrial, academic, regulatory, civic spaces among others), and are thus varied, if not multiple. Standards of proof get selected or deselected, rise or fall, depending on what happens in this complex environment, or what may be called an ecology of regulatory knowledge, that heavily determines who may prove products safe or unsafe, and thus claim to be an expert.
Date:
9 June 2015, 15:00
Venue:
64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details:
InSIS Seminar Room
Speaker:
Dr David Demortain (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés)
Organising department:
Institute for Science, Innovation and Society
Organisers:
Dr Rob Bellamy (InSIS, University of Oxford),
Dr Sophie Haines (InSIS, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
enquiries@insis.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Sophie Haines
