Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Experts and expertise in politics and policy-making

Join an exciting project exploring the role and impact of experts and expertise in politics and policy-making in contemporary and historical perspective. We are particularly interested in candidates with research interests in the role of experts and expertise in transnational networks and international/regional integration organizations including, but not limited to, the present-day European Union. Within this broad framework, we are interested in projects under two themes:

1. The role and impact of experts and expertise within varying time periods – evolution over time, in historical perspective and/or up to the present-day. Projects could focus on, for example:

• Formation of and change in experts and expert networks over time;
• Experts and expert networks in varying issue/policy areas and time periods and/or explorations of their evolution over time.

2. Experts and expertise in spatial perspective, and their evolution and impact in regional spaces and international/regional integration organizations. Projects could focus on, for example:

• Experts and expert networks as transnational mediators of political ideas, institutional designs and policy solutions;
• Experts and expertise in processes of policy diffusion/transfer within and across regional integration schemes in Europe or globally.