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Do science advisors really sabotage themselves? 🤔

💡 Dr Christiane Gerblinger has one answer: her research suggests that adopt strategies to make themselves deliberately ignorable. Listen to her in our lates episode of podcast: sapea.info/podcast 🎧

Her Book How Government Experts Self-Sabotage: The language of the rebuffed. lnkd.in/ea4QfrMu

press.anu.edu.auHow Government Experts Self-SabotageAfter official policy advice to governments is publicly released, governments are often accused of ignoring or rejecting their experts. Commonly represented as politicisation, this depiction is superficial. Digging deeper, is there something about the official advice itself that makes it easy to ignore?

Do science advisors really sabotage themselves? 🤔

When are employed by governments, how do they reconcile the competing needs to accurately convey the science, while ensuring it can be of maximum use in the current political context? 👇

💡 Dr Christiane Gerblinger has one answer: her research suggests that adopt strategies to make themselves deliberately ignorable.

Listen to her in our lates episode of podcast: sapea.info/podcast 🎧