MIOIR鈥檚 New Research Projects: Addressing Democracy, Governance, and Trust
MIOIR secures funding for two projects under the Trans-Atlantic Platform, advancing democracy, governance, and trust.
The 野狼社区 Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) is proud to announce two new research projects involving Mercedes Bleda and Kieron Flanagan. The two projects are part of the (T-AP) and have been selected as two of the 18 awardees of the T-AP Democracy, Governance, and Trust (DGT) call. This initiative aims to deepen understanding of opportunities, challenges, and crises relevant to democracy, governance, and trust.
Governance of Policy Failure Risks in Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies (MOIPs)
is the Lead Principal Investigator on a collaborative research initiative titled Governance of Policy Failure Risks in the Design and Implementation of Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies. The project is supported by an international consortium including Dr Seweryn Krupnik (Jagiellonian University, Poland) and Dr Alexandra Mallett (Carleton University, Canada), with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Polish National Science Centre (NCN), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Mission oriented innovation policies (MOIP) are a new generation of transformative policies aimed at fostering innovations that help address complex societal challenges. The uncertain, multilevel, and complex character of MOIP exacerbates the risk of policy failure, i.e., the risk of the policies not delivering their intended goals, leading to ineffective policy support and growing distrust towards governments.
This project aims to analyse policy failure risks in the design and implementation of MOIP and identify suitable risk governance approaches to address them. To do so the project analyses specific MOIP initiatives with sustainability related goals in three selected countries (United Kingdom, Poland and Canada) using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (to identify necessary and/or sufficient links through systematic cross-case comparison) and Process Tracing (to construct key causal mechanisms at the within-case level). The research contributes to a better understanding of MOIP failure risks and their governance, which can in turn help reduce policy failure and increase levels of trust in institutions and public authorities.
Investigating the Relationship between Science Diplomacy and Global Democracy, Governance, and Trust (DGT)
as co-PI and join a global consortium led by Dr Cassidy R. Sugimoto (Georgia Institute of Technology) on the project 鈥業nvestigating the Relationship between Science Diplomacy and Global DGT: The Role of Inclusive Metascience Observatories (IMSO4DIPLO)鈥�. This multidisciplinary team includes experts from the University of S茫o Paulo, Adam Mickiewicz University, Stellenbosch University, CNRS, and Universit茅 de Montr茅al. The project is funded by ANR, FAPESP, NCN, NRF, NSF, SSHRC, and UKRI.
This project is examining the role of evidence-informed science diplomacy as a strategic instrument to strengthen democracy, governance, and trust (DGT). The project will utilise qualitative and quantitative methods to (1) understand the relationship between science diplomacy and DGT; (2) conceptualise and operationalise metascience observatories and investigate the extent to which they can be leveraged to improve science diplomacy; and (3) explore how threats to DGT could be mitigated and opportunities seized through inclusive metascience observatories.
The outputs will include both academic-oriented products, as well as communications to policymakers and the wider public, honouring the practices of open science. In addition to these products, outcomes will include communities of practice for science diplomats and training opportunities for early-career researchers.