Research

The GCK project is an interdisciplinary community of scholars examining the global politics of science and knowledge. The project’s mission is to improve international governance by focusing in depth, critical research on the ideas that underpin decisions of global significance.
 
Key foci of project research include empirical and theoretical analyses of:

• The globalization of knowledge

• Tacit assumptions, values, and problem framings embedded in global models and datasets

• The deliberation of knowledge and ideas in international governance

• The design and organization of international institutions that produce and manage policy-relevant knowledge of global and transnational phenomena

• Competing, cross-cultural standards of evidence and styles of reasoning about science, technology, and risk

• The circulation of ideas in global civil society and their cross-cultural uptake and impacts on human lives and livelihoods

• The potential for science to constrain the ad hoc exercise of global power

• The co-production of sciences of the globe and global socio-political orders

• Science and democracy in global governance