In this episode, Marcel interviews Alessandro Coatti who works as a Senior Science Policy Officer in the UK. They speak about Alessandro’s career trajectory, his work within the Royal Society of Biology, and science policy more generally.

Feel free to contact Alessandro Coatti on LinkedIn:

www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-coatti-mrsb 

Some intro readings on science policy

Top 20 things politicians need to know about science (Guardian)

Top 20 things scientists need to know about policy-making (Guardian)

Policy: Twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims (Nature)

Scientists and politics? (Science)

Why must scientists become more ethically sensitive than they used to be? (Science)

The science–policy interface (Science)

Policy: The art of science advice to government (Nature)

Give evidence to a select committee (UK Parliament)

Parliament for Researchers - how to write for a parliamentary audience (UK Parliamentary Office for Science)

Making sense of science in policy and politics - Part 1: An introduction to The Honest Broker Framework

What makes an academic paper useful for health policy? By Professor Chris Whitty. Link

Principle of evidence synthesis. Link

Books: Ian Boyd, Science and Politics (Hatchards)

Short course: Wellcome Connecting Science - Science Policy: Improving the Uptake of Research into UK Policy (2023 edition, which I helped organise). The next course will take place in 2025.

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