Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. From now until the launch of Oxford Events, new events cannot be published or edited on OxTalks while all existing records are migrated to the new platform. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period.
From 16th, Oxford Events will launch on a new website: events.ox.ac.uk, and event submissions will resume. You will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
Whom do we trust? An ‘expert’, by standard definition, has particular skills or knowledge of their field. Today, a wide range of scientists, scholars, doctors, oracles, pundits and others are called upon to explain, judge, predict and guide decisions in diverse fields. What skills, knowledge, qualifications, or experience are included or excluded in expectations, assumptions and implementation of expertise? Seminars in this series will explore how experts, expert knowledge, and expertise come to be recognised as credible, legitimate, and authoritative, for example in relation to ‘lay knowledge’, or ignorance. Sites at which these ecologies may be explored include interfaces among experts themselves, as well as interactions with tools and models, and with decision makers and publics.
This series features in the following public collections:
