A CRISIS OF EXPERTISE: LEGITIMACY AND THE CHALLENGE OF POLICYMAKING CONFERENCE - MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF , DRAFT subject to change. Does NOT reflect session speaking order PROGRAM Day 1 – Thursday 15 February, 2018

9.30am-10.00am Coffee & registration

10.00am-10.15am Opening and Acknowledgement of Country Professor Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne Dr Jeremy Baskin, University of Melbourne

10.15am-11.15am Keynote Address: Professor Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School KEYNOTE

OPENING& Toward a post-modern constitution: Reason and Representation in the 21st century

Chair: Dr James Parker, University of Melbourne

11.15am-11.45am Morning tea

11.45am-1.00pm Session 1: Contested knowledge: truth, trust and expertise - Chair: Professor Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne Dr Darrin Durant, University of Melbourne, Expertise and the Goldilocks Principle Professor Colin Wight, University of Sydney, TITLE TBC, Dr Helen Sullivan, Australian National University, Nostalgia, Nirvana and the painful persistence of ‘unknown knowns’ in public policy

1.00pm-1.45pm Lunch

1.45pm-3.00pm Session 2 2.1 –Public institutions and social Imaginaries in knowledge 2.2 –Politics and Discourses of expertise 2.3 –Ways of seeing: Legitimacy, authority, and the 2.4 –MSoG mini-lab production Chair: TBC creation of expertise Trust in experts: Chair: Daniel McCarthy, University of Melbourne Mark Badger, Australian National University Chair: TBC understanding barriers and Dr Georgia Miller, University of New South Wales The facts can’t speak for themselves: why politics and Associate Professor David Mercer, University of drivers Session STARTS at 13h30 Securing sponsorship for nanotechnology: The divergent persuasion are essential to science Wollongong form and work of sociotechnical imaginaries in the United States Wendy Russell, Double Arrow Consulting The crisis of expertise? Continuities and discontinuities Convenor: Dr. Kate Neely, and Australia Crisis of discourse? Citizen deliberation as an intervention to in the processes of legitimating and challenging the University of Melbourne authority of experts

KNOWLEDGE& SOCIETY Professor Jon Pierre, University of Gothenburg, University of bring needed virtues into practice Melbourne Dr Jeremy Baskin, University of Melbourne Dr Declan Kuch, University of New South Wales Note: this session is limited to Trust and expertise: The institutional dimension of expertise The sound of extinction: affect and expertise om am age of Subjects, numbers, narratives: the limits of QALY and 20 participants – send tCO2-e as regulatory devices Ruth O’Connor et al, Australian National University risk management expressions of interest to How expert knowledge is valued and communicated in the Dr Rey Tiquia, University of Melbourne msog- natural resource management sector Clinical Evidence, Medical Expertise and Traditional [email protected] Chinese Medicine

3.00pm-3.30pm Afternoon tea

3.30pm-4.45pm Session 3: What knowledge counts when making policy? A conversation - Chair: Professor Sundhya Pahuja, University of Melbourne Dr Richard Denniss, Australia Institute Gordon de Brouwer, Former public servant / University of Canberra

Professor Kerry Arabena, University of Melbourne PRACTICE POLICYIN Professor Joan Leach, Australian National University

4.45pm-6.15pm Session 4 4.1 – Experts, evidence and hierarchies of expertise 4.2 – Publics and participation 4.4 – Climate’s science, politics and policy Chair: Dr. Stephanie Lavau, University of Melbourne Chair: TBC Chair: Dr. Julia Dehm, LaTrobe University

Dr Rebecca Pearse, University of Sydney Professor Richard Hindmarsh, Griffith University Dr Peter Tangney, Flinders University Climate change economics has never been post-political: Expert The crisis of expertise and civic participation in the making of public policy Examining the politics of Australian climate science expertise dissensus and the failure of Australia’s emissions trading scheme through the public inquiry on science, technology, and environmental Dr Graeme Pearman, University of Melbourne Dr Kari Lancaster, University of New South Wales change Climate change, science and policy Problematising the ‘evidence-based’ policy paradigm Professor Fiona Haines et al, University of Melbourne Kate Dooley et al, University of Melbourne Dr Cosmo Howard, Griffith University The Familiar and the Strange: Understanding the Connection between Co-producing climate policy: negative emissions, land-use and Statistical bargains: Relationships between politicians and Science, Technology and Social Protest around Coal Seam Gas in Australia sustainable futures statisticians Dr David Nolan et al, University of Melbourne POLICYIN PRACTICE Dr Ronlyn Duncan et al, Landcare Research NZ Expertise, Public Opinion and Indigenous Policy Agendas: Shifting media Examining co-production and the role of brokers within New assemblages and their implications *This session concludes at 6.00pm Zealand’s ‘science advisory ecosystem’ Dr Rebecca Nelson, University of Melbourne Law, science, and water under pressure: governing data in a water democracy 6.30pm Reception and Dinner Main Dining Room, University House, Professors Walk, University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus

PROGRAM Day 2 – Friday 16 February, 2018 KEYNOTE 9.30am-10.30am Keynote Address: Professor Andy Stirling, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Expertise & Democracy: from adversarial crisis to mutualistic renewal Chair: Dr Jeremy Baskin, University of Melbourne 10.30am-11.00am Morning tea

11.00am-12.15pm Session 5: New approaches, new paradigms - Chair: Professor Lars Coenen, University of Melbourne Dr Kathryn Davidson, University of Melbourne, New global city governance: City networks as medium of effective urban governance experimentation in institutionalizing policy renewal? Associate Professor Matthew Kearnes, University of New South Wales, Beyond residual realisms: four paths for remaking participation with science and democracy Professor Brian Head, University of Queensland, Pathways to policy innovation: Nudge experiments VS collaborative design 12.15pm-1.15pm Lunch

1.15pm-2.30pm Session 6 6.1 – Deliberation, democracy and experimentation 6.2 – Locating and negotiating the distribution of expertise 6.3 – Policy co-design across boundaries of experience and expertise Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC

Dr Jonathon Pickering et al, University of Canberra Hayley Pring et al, Australian National University Alan Petersen, Democratising planetary boundaries Modelling a Strategic Response for Universities to the Rise of Think Tanks Experts and expertise in the age of ‘evidence-based activism’: Alan Ryan, Australian Civil Military Centre in Australian Public Policy exploring the case of patient and health activists No room for gifted amateurs: Why effective future policy-making Dr Jordan Tchilingirian, University of Bath Amanda Reeves et al, ARTD Consultants needs integrated learning and cross-agency expertise. Policy intellectuals in a time of crisis: A social network analysis of British Co-design: Repositioning expertise in policy making Dr Amy Kaminski, National Aeronautics and Space Administration think-tanks and the field of policy-knowledge production 2005 - 2017 Professor Annica Kronsell, Lund University Space for the People? NASA’s Experiences with Democratizing Dr Anca Hanea et al, University of Melbourne Municipalities as enablers? - On the role of municipalities in INNOVATION& EXPERIMENTATION Innovation and Decision-making Structured Expert Judgement: the art of using subjective data as experimental governance objectively as possible Dr Peat Leith, Reflexive boundary work gets things done by denying its own existence

Closing Reflections and Conference closure 2.30pm-3.15pm Details to be confirmed

Professor John Howe, Director Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne CLOSING