UPCOMING CONFERENCES
- 💡 RADIUNCE’s PhDs Olaf van der Veen and Ella MacLaughlin will serve as co-chair (with Georg Wenzelburger) and discussant of the panel ‘Evidence and Policymaking in Times of Uncertainty and Polycrisis’ at the ECPR General Conference on 26-29 August 2025 in Thessaloniki, Greece. This panel addresses the timely question how varying degrees and types of (un-)certainty affect political decision-making. Ella will present a next version of the detecting uncertainty in text paper here; Olaf will present a paper – co-authored with Marija Aleksovska & Barbara Vis on how British political elites reacted to different types of uncertainty during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- RADIUNCE’s PhD Ella MacLaughlin will present a paper – co-authored with Barbara Vis – on detecting uncertainty in text at the COMPTEXT conference from 24-26 April 2025 in Vienna, Austria.
RECENT CONFERENCES
- Together with Wieke Pot, Wouter Lammers, and Jorren Scherpenisse, RADIUNCE’s PI Barbara Vis chaired the panel ‘Robust & time sensitive governance: Dealing with uncertainty’ at the NIG Conference on 6-7 February 2025 in Ghent, Belgium. This panel focused on what enables governments to deal with uncertainty in the face of turbulence and when and why they do not deal with uncertainty at all. The RADIUNCE team presented three co-authored papers at this conference.
IN THE MEDIA
- November 2023: News item related to the 2023 Dutch parliamentary elections: Wat is de invloed van het Israëlisch-Palestijnse conflict op de verkiezingen?, based on contributions by Ella MacLaughlin & co-author and Barbara Vis.
TALKS & OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
NB: For a list of presentations by RADIUNCE researchers at conferences, please check out the page Publications.
- On February 28, 2025 Ella MacLaughlin gave a presentation on the project ‘Detecting uncertainty in text’, joint work with Barbara Vis, at the Hot Politics Lab.
- In November and December 2024, Olaf van der Veen visited three high schools in Utrecht to talk about his research as part of Utrecht University’s Rector’s League program.
- On 21-22 May, 2024, Barbara Vis gave a presentation on the work done in RADIUNCE at the workshop entitled ‘Theoretical and methodological approaches to using uncertainty information in policy’ at KU Leuven, Belgium.
- On September 29, 2023, Barbara Vis visited Aarhus University, where she among other things presented the RADIUNCE project.
- On May 16, 2023, RADIUNCE’s affliated researcher Achim Goerres (University of Duisburg-Essen) visited Utrecht University School of Governance and gave a talk entitled ‘Living in Novaland: Is it possible to simulate the experience of states, economies, and public policies in a virtual online state?’
- On March 17, 2023, Barbara Vis gave a talk entitled ‘How Do Politicians Respond to Different Types of Uncertain Phenomena? Introducing a Conceptual Map’ at the Hot Politics Lab. A recording of the talk is available here.
- On February 14, 2023, Barbara Vis presented the RADIUNCE project to the Public Governance research group at Utrecht University School of Governance.
- On February 8, 2023, Barbara Vis visited the Media, Movements and Politics (M²P) group at Antwerp University, where she among other things will talk about the RADIUNCE project.