PEriTia: Trust in a Changing World

5 videos • 329 views • by UCD - University College Dublin PEriTiA Inaugural Symposium: Trust in a Changing World was hosted by the University College Dublin (UCD) on 2 March 2020. The event brought together leading scholars to discuss trust in and the trustworthiness of policy related expert opinion in today’s changing world. PEriTiA – Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action – is an international EU-funded research project. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the project explores the conditions under which people trust expertise used for public policy. The event will start the debate on this relevant topic with keynotes and panels on the challenges of governing trust in a digital society, the experiments of deliberative democracy in Ireland or the case of environmental expertise, among others. The line-up of speakers included David Farrell (UCD/Royal Irish Academy), Maria Baghramian (UCD/Royal Irish Academy), José van Dijck (University of Utrecht/KNAW), Bobby Duffy (King’s College London), Liam Delaney (UCD), Susan Owens (University of Cambridge/British Academy), Catherine Holst (University of Oslo), Judith Simon (University of Hamburg), and Gloria Origgi (CNRS).