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Is the proclaimed crisis of public trust in science real?
Popular narratives suggest a widespread crisis of public trust in science in many countries globally. Viktoria Cologna and Niels G. Mede set up a consortium of 241 researchers from 179 institutions across the world to investigate this narrative with a global Many Labs survey of ca. 72,000 respondents. It examined people’s attitudes to scientists, including perceptions of their trustworthiness and role in society and policymaking, in 68 countries, including Switzerland. In this webinar, Cologna and Mede present key results of the study — and discuss implications for science communication and public engagement with science.
Friday, 7 march 2025, 12:15 – 1:30 pm
Language: English
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Dr. Viktoria Cologna is an environmental social scientist with a focus on environmental psychology and behavioral science. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collegium Helveticum, the Swiss Institute for Advanced Study at ETH Zurich. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her research focuses on the determinants of individual and collective action on climate change, trust in scientists, and the role of scientists in society and policymaking.
Dr. Niels G. Mede is a Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich, and fellow at the Digital Democracy Centre, University of Southern Denmark. He studies science communication, focusing on digital media, public perceptions of science, harassment of scholars, and science literacy. Dr. Mede holds a PhD in communication studies from the University of Zurich. Previously, he was a visiting researcher at the Department of Life Sciences Communication of the University of Wisconsin—Madison (2022), the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford (2023), and the Digital Media Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology (2024). In 2025, he will join the University of Wageningen, Netherlands, as an assistant professor for communication in life science contexts.
