The results of the POIESIS Survey Experiment are here!!

January 20, 2025

A large survey was conducted over the Autumn involving 2847 respondents, a minimum of 400 in each of the projects’ Consortium countries (Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, France and Greece).

The aim of the study was to experimentally investigate the effects of institutional commitment to research integrity and societal integration on public trust in science. To do so, we fielded a conjoint survey experiment in which levels of commitment to integrity and integration were randomly assigned to fictional university profiles. These were then evaluated by the survey respondents, who were asked how trustworthy they found the fictional universities.  

The key conclusions of the study are that:

To read the full results of the Survey Experiment download the Deliverable D2.4 here

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