Project overview
The aim of this co-produced project is to better understand how people engage with evidence in order to make decisions in their daily lives, be those big or small decisions.
We want to understand what sources people look to for information, and how those sources, as well as other factors in their lives, affect their views and decision making. Democratic societies thrive when citizens actively and critically engage with new ideas, developments and claims to truth so engaging with the best available evidence and using it to make decisions is crucial.
What we want to explore with this project is how close we are to this type of situation and what might be done to improve it – by both academia and publishers.
We want to understand what sources people look to for information, and how those sources, as well as other factors in their lives, affect their views and decision making. Democratic societies thrive when citizens actively and critically engage with new ideas, developments and claims to truth so engaging with the best available evidence and using it to make decisions is crucial.
What we want to explore with this project is how close we are to this type of situation and what might be done to improve it – by both academia and publishers.
Staff
Other researchers
Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups
Research outputs
Chris Brown, Ruth Luzmore & Jana Groß Ophoff,
2022, Emerald Open Research, 1(1)
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