In light of the storylistening article in Science, Sarah joined Bob McDonald on Canada’s CBC radio science programme ‘Quirks and Quarks’ to discuss how rigorous analysis of narratives can complement scientific data in informing public policy for global issues like climate change and space exploration.
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Sarah discusses this important question on an episode of the University of Cambridge’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy podcast – Crossing Channels – hosted by Rory Cellan-Jones, with fellow interviewee Manvir Singh.
In this contribution to Science‘s policy forum, Claire and Sarah explain how expert analysis of narratives can complement and strengthen scientific evidence, laying out how storylistening can be incorporated into the mechanisms and institutions of public reasoning, and what this means for scientists.
In this perspective for WIREs Climate Change, Sarah and Claire expand on the climate change case study in the book, demonstrating how the arguments in Storylistening connect with the most cutting edge interdisciplinary work on climate change.
In October 2022, Sarah and Rachel Fisher (Deputy Director for Land Use Policy at Defra) joined a cross-disciplinary group of academics as part of a Cambridge Zero Policy Forum roundtable discussion on narratives and their links with climate change policy. This blog summarises the highlights of the discussion.
In this academic article, Sarah draws out the academic consequences for literary studies of the storylistening work, arguing that public criticism (criticism attending to the function of stories in order to convey their cognitive value to public reasoning) needs to be part of an ecosystem of plural methods crucial to the vitality of the discipline in the twenty-first century.
In this LSE Impact Blog, Sarah summarises the highlights of her research into the impact of the leisure reading of artificial intelligence researchers on their scientific thought and practice. The full academic article, published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews is available open access here.
Claire is interviewed by Australian journalist and publisher of Women Love Tech, Robyn Foyster, about storylistening.
In this short piece in the Journal of the British Academy, we draw out the key arguments in Storylistening of relevance to scholars in the humanities, presenting storylistening as a case study in how to include the humanities in evidence provided for public reasoning.
Sarah gave a talk and contributed to a discussion on a panel on applied science fiction at the the Royal Anthropological Institute’s conference on Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society. She spoke about storylistening and why science fiction matters for public reasoning about artificial intelligence.