Expert Interviews

In POIESIS, we aim to examine how practices of integrity and integration affect public trust in science. To accomplish this goal, we will conduct expert interviews with Researchers on Covid-19 and climate change, Institutional Science Communicators, and non-Institutional Science Communicators such as professional science writers, professional journalists and authors of science-related blogs, podcasts, etc.

For each POIESIS country (Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom), we aim at conducting three interviews with Researchers and five interviews with Science Communicators working on each of the POIESIS-related topics (Covid-19 and climate change). This corresponds to 16 interviews per country, and 112 interviews overall.

The expert interviews are designed to contribute to the general objectives of POIESIS by examining:

Which mechanisms connecting (ir)responsible research practices and levels of public trust in science are identified by experts?
How does information about (ir)responsible research practices reach the wider publics, which actors play a role in this, and how does it affect the publics’ trust in science?
What kinds of manifestations of integrity and integration in the research cycle are likely to affect levels of public trust in science, and how?

Expert Interviews

The expert interviews are designed to contribute to the general objectives of POIESIS by examining:

Which mechanisms connecting (ir)responsible research practices and levels of public trust in science are identified by experts?

How does information about (ir)responsible research practices reach the wider publics, which actors play a role in this, and how does it affect the publics’ trust in science?

What kinds of manifestations of integrity and integration in the research cycle are likely to affect levels of public trust in science, and how?