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communication; at the moment, she has funded research projects on “commons”
approaches in stem cell science, the use of synthetic biology for the future of
agriculture and research to re-think responsible innovation in the Australian
Context. She is most interested in sociological accounts of knowledge produc-
tion and was editor of the journal Social Epistemology for nine years. Prof. Leach
is also Chair of the National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science
at the Australian Academy of Science.
Vicki Macknight works in the Centre for Science Communication at the Uni-
versity of Otago. Her work has been published in a range of journals including
Valuation Studies, Journal of Science Communication, Science as Culture and Social
Epistemology. She is the author of Imagining Classrooms: Stories of Children, Teaching
and Ethnography (2016).
Jens Maesse is Senior Researcher (PD Dr habil.) at the Department of So-
ciology, University of Giessen (Germany). Jens’ research focus is on discourse
analysis, sociology of science and education, economic sociology and political
economy. His publications include “Globalization strategies and the economics
dispositive: Insights from Germany and the UK”, Historical Social Research 43(3),
120–146 (2018) and “Translating Austerity: The formation and transformation of
the EU economic constitution as discourse”, Interdisciplinary Political Studies, 7(1),
61–94 (2021) (with Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta).
Carlo Martini is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science at Vita-Salute San
Raffaele University (Milan) and a visiting Adjunct Professor at the University of
Helsinki. He has worked on the interface between science and policy, scientific
expertise and science communication. His latest research focuses on the problem
of pseudoscience and how it affects public trust in science. He is leader of the
work package “Behavioral Tools for Building Trust” in the H2020 Project “Pol-
icy, Expertise and Trust” (https://peritia-trust.eu).
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey holds the Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal thought at
the Cato Institute, Washington, and is Emerita Professor of Economics, History,
English and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The author
of two dozen books and editor of nine more, she has written some 500 schol-
arly and journalistic pieces in economics, economic history, rhetorical theory,
philosophy of science, literary criticism, gender studies, theology, ethics, legal
and political theory, and statistical theory and practice. Tenured in Economics
at the University of Chicago in its glory days of the 1970s, she has taught and
visited worldwide, as at Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton. She is a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and
holds eleven honorary degrees. She is an active public intellectual, writing for US
and foreign newspapers and magazines. Entering her ninth decade, Deo volente,