The article "Making expert advice public in a time of emergency: Independent SAGE and the contestation of science during the Covid pandemic in the UK" has now been published in Social Studies of ScienceLink opens in a new window

This research article was co-authored by Noortje Marres and Matias Valderrama Barragan (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick). It argues that Indie SAGE, a group of scientists that formed in May 2020 to provide expert advice on the Covid response in the UK, demonstrated an important alternative approach to linking science and politics in a time of emergency. Through its interventions, the group showed that the only way to ensure that policy and decision-making on Covid-19 was grounded in knowledge was by making expert advice public.

Image credit: Critical situations of Covid-19 identified by members and partners of IndieSAGE (Figure designed by Ginevra Terenghi)