PERITIA’s Final Academic Conference: Rethinking Policy, Expertise and Trust

PERITIA’s final academic conference invites scholars from a range of disciplines to present their most recent findings on questions pertaining to the key themes of the project. Researchers from the fields of philosophy, sociology, political science, media studies, public policy and science communication will cover a breadth of topics encompassed by PERITIA’s investigation of public trust in expertise, which include:

• The scope and nature of public trust and distrust
• The role of experts in policy decisions
• Factors contributing to trust and distrust in experts
• Critical assessments of the role of experts in policy decisions
• The role of social media in establishing trust and distrust
• The key indicators of the trustworthiness of the experts
• Psychological, affective, and cognitive mechanisms relevant to trust and distrust
• Empirical studies of trust and trustworthiness