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My work investigates the nature of expertise: what is it, who has it, how is it developed, how it shared, how can it be recognised and acted upon.

In answering these questions, I have developed three main sets of interests:

Understanding the nature of expertise as a property of social groups. Known as Studies of Expertise and Experience, this approach has developed a $acirc; Periodic Table of Expertises$acirc; that can be used to identify different types and levels of expertise. This work has implications for a range of topics in Science and Technology Studies, including public understanding of science, interdisciplinary working and understanding of scientific controversies.
Measuring the distribution of interactional expertise. Developing the Periodic Table of Expertises has led to the creation of a new research method $acirc; the Imitation Game $acirc; to measure the way in which one of its key categories $acirc; interactional expertise $acirc; is distributed. If successful, the method will provide a new way of mapping the interactions between social groups.
The role of expertise in technological decision-making in the public domain. Drawing on the $acirc; Third Wave of Science Studies$acirc; , this work explores how experts and citizens can contribute to technological decision-making in the public domain without reducing the process to either technocracy or populism. It has implications for democratic decision-making and for participatory forms of social research.

Research Centre

Centre for Study of Knowledge Expertise and Science

Links to

ALL @ SEE: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/expertise
Expertise blog: http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/imgame/blog-2/

2025

Collins, H., Evans, R. and Reyes-Galindo, L. 2025. Virtual diversity revisited.. Social Studies of Science 55(2), pp. 316-324. (10.1177/03063127251330545)

2024

Hacking, N., Lewis, J. and Evans, R. 2024. Mapping approaches to ‘citizen science’ and ‘community science’ and everything in-between: The evolution of new epistemic territory?. Minerva 62(4), pp. 549-572. (10.1007/s11024-024-09529-z)
Collins, H., Evans, R. and Reyes-Galindo, L. 2024. Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between the wider culture and the institution of science. Social Studies of Science (10.1177/03063127241263609)
Hacking, N., Evans, R. and Lewis, J. 2024. Expertise, trading zones and the planning system: a case study of an energy-from-biomass plant. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 7(3), pp. 1418-1435. (10.1177/25148486231212083)
Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2024. Studies of expertise and experience: Demarcating and defending the role of science in democracy. In: Pritchard, D., Farina, M. and Lavazza, A. eds. Expertise: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 147-168., (10.1093/oso/9780198877301.003.0009)
Caudill, D., Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2024. Judges should be discerning consensus, not evaluating scientific expertise. University of Cincinnati Law Review 92(4), article number: 11.

2023

Collins, H., Shrager, J., Bartlett, A., Conley, S., Hale, R. and Evans, R. 2023. Hypernormal science and its significance. Perspectives on Science 31(2), pp. 262-292. (10.1162/posc_a_00572)
Hacking, N., Lewis, J. and Evans, R. 2023. It is time to rethink what citizen science really is. The Conversation 2023(28 Mar)
Evans, R., Hacking, N. and Lewis, J. 2023. Expanding citizen science: community action without primary data collection. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 8(1), pp. 1-12., article number: 11. (10.5334/cstp.503)
Collins, H., Evans, R., Durant, D. and Weinel, M. 2023. The Third Wave and populism: Scientific expertise as a check and balance. In: Eyal, G. and Medvetz, T. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics. Oxford University Press, pp. 52-77., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190848927.001.0001)
Evans, R. 2023. The consensus rule: judges, jurors, and admissibility hearings. Villanova Law Review 67(5), pp. 883-892.

2019

Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2019. Studies of expertise and experience: a sociological perspective on expertise. In: Ward, P. et al. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Expertise. Oxford Handbooks Online, (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198795872.013.4)
Evans, R., Collins, H., Weinel, M., Lyttleton-Smith, J., O'Mahoney, H. and Leonard-Clarke, W. 2019. Groups and individuals: conformity and diversity in the performance of gendered identities. British Journal of Sociology 70(4), pp. 1561-1581. (10.1111/1468-4446.12507)
Collins, H., Evans, R., Hall, M., O'Mahoney, H. and Weinel, M. 2019. Bonfire Night and Burns Night: Using the Imitation Game to research English and Scottish identities. In: Caudill, D. S. et al. eds. The Third Wave in Science and Technology Studies: Future Research Directions on Expertise and Experience. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 109-131., (10.1007/978-3-030-14335-0_7)
Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2019. Populism and science. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 56(4), pp. 200-218. (10.5840/eps201956476)
Evans, R., Collins, H. and Weinel, M. 2019. Imitation Game. In: Atkinson, P. et al. eds. SAGE Research Methods Foundations. Sage, pp. 1-23.

2018

Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2018. A sociological/philosophical perspective on expertise: the acquisition of expertise through socialization. In: Ericsson, K. A. et al. eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. Cambridge Univeristy Press, pp. 21-32., (10.1017/9781316480748.002)

2017

Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2017. A general theory of the use of technology in sport and some consequences. In: Schulenkorf, N. and Frawley, S. eds. Critical Issues in Global Sport Management. Routledge, pp. 219-237.
Collins, H., Evans, R., Weinel, M., Lyttleton-Smith, J., Bartlett, A. and Hall, M. 2017. The Imitation Game and the nature of mixed methods. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 11(4), pp. 510-527. (10.1177/1558689815619824)
Collins, H. M., Evans, R. J. and Weinel, M. 2017. STS as science or politics. Social Studies of Science 47(4), pp. 580-586. (10.1177/0306312717710131)
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2017. The bearing of studies of expertise and experience on ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry 23(6), pp. 445-451.
Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2017. Probes, surveys, and the ontology of the social. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 11(3), pp. 328-341. (10.1177/1558689815619825)
Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2017. Why democracies need science. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press.
Collins, H., Evans, R. and Weinel, M. 2017. Interactional expertise. In: Felt, U. et al. eds. Handbook of Scinece and Technology Studies (4th Edition). MIT Press, pp. 765-792.
Collins, H., Evans, R. and Higgins, C. 2017. Bad call: Technology's attack on referees and umpires and how to fix it. MIT Press.

2016

Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2016. A thousand words is worth a picture. Social Studies of Science 46(2), pp. 312-324. (10.1177/0306312716637437)
Collins, H. M., Evans, R. J. and Weinel, M. 2016. Expertise revisited, Part II: Contributory expertise. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 56, pp. 103-110. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.07.003)
Collins, H. M., Evans, R. J., Pineda, S. and Weinel, M. 2016. Modelling architecture in the world of expertise. Room One Thousand 4, pp. 24-34.

2015

Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2015. Expertise revisited, Part I - interactional expertise. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 54, pp. 113-123. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.07.004)
Fisher, E., O'Rourke, M., Evans, R., Kennedy, E. B., Gorman, M. E. and Seager, T. P. 2015. Mapping the integrative field: taking stock of socio-technical collaborations. Journal of Responsible Innovation 2(1), pp. 39-61. (10.1080/23299460.2014.1001671)
Evans, R. 2015. What is expertise? Technical knowledge and political judgment. In: Villumsen Berling, T. and Bueger, C. eds. Security Expertise: Practice, Power, Responsibility. PRIO New Security Studies Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 19-36.

2014

Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2014. Actor and analyst: A response to Coopmans and Button. Social Studies of Science 44(5), pp. 786-792. (10.1177/0306312714546242)
Evans, R. J. 2014. Expert advisers: why economic forecasters can be useful even when they are wrong. In: Martini, C. and Boumans, M. eds. Experts and Consensus in Social Science. Ethical Economy Vol. 50. Springer International, pp. 233-252.
Evans, R. J. 2014. Science and democracy in the third wave: Elective modernism not epistocracy. In: Holst, C. ed. Expertise and Democracy. Oslo, Norway: ARENA, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, pp. 85-102.

2013

Evans, R. J. and Crocker, H. 2013. The Imitation Game as a method for exploring knowledge(s) of chronic illness. Methodological Innovations Online 8(1), pp. 34-52. (10.4256/mio.2013.003)
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2013. Quantifying the tacit: the imitation game and social fluency. Sociology n/a (10.1177/0038038512455735)

2012

Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2012. Sport-decision aids and the 'CSI-effect': why cricket uses Hawk-Eye well and tennis uses it badly. Public Understanding of Science 21(8), pp. 904-921. (10.1177/0963662511407991)
Elwyn, G. et al. 2012. Detecting deterioration in patients with chronic disease using telemonitoring: navigating the 'trough of disillusionment'. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18(4), pp. 896-903. (10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01701.x)
Sutherland, W. J. et al. 2012. A Collaboratively-Derived Science-Policy Research Agenda. PLoS ONE 7(3), article number: e31824. (10.1371/journal.pone.0031824)

2011

Collins, H. M., Weinel, M. and Evans, R. J. 2011. Object and shadow: responses to the CPS critiques of Collins, Weinel and Evans', "Politics and policy of the Third Wave". Critical Policy Studies 5(3), pp. 340-348. (10.1080/19460171.2011.606309)
Evans, R. J. 2011. Collective epistemology: the intersection of group membership and expertise. In: Schmid, H. B., Sirtes, D. and Weber, M. eds. Collective Epistemology. Epistemische Studien : Schriften zur Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftstheorie Vol. 20. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, pp. 177-202.

2010

Collins, H. M., Weinel, M. and Evans, R. J. 2010. The politics and policy of the Third Wave: new technologies and society. Critical Policy Studies 4(2), pp. 185-201. (10.1080/19460171.2010.490642)
Collins, H., Evans, R. and Gorman, M. E. 2010. Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise. In: Gorman, M. E. ed. Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 7-24.
Evans, R. J. and Collins, H. M. 2010. Interactional expertise and the imitation game. In: Gorman, M. E. ed. Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 53-70.
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2010. The third wave of science studies: studies of expertise and experience. In: Sergio, D. and Juhno, P. eds. Themes in Transdisciplinary Research. IEAT, pp. 299-363.

2009

Evans, R. J. and Kotchetkova, I. 2009. Qualitative research and deliberative methods: promise or peril?. Qualitative Research 9(5), pp. 625-643. (10.1177/1468794109343630)
Evans, R. J., Hillman, A., Rees, G. M., Ross, N., Taylor, C. M. and Williams, G. H. 2009. Qualitative research, deliberative inquiry and policy making. Qualitative Researcher(10), pp. 10-11.
Evans, R. J., Kotchetkova, I. and Langer, S. 2009. Just around the corner: rhetorics of progress and promise in genetic research. Public Understanding of Science 18(1), pp. 43-59. (10.1177/0963662507078016)

2008

Kotchetkova, I. and Evans, R. J. 2008. Promoting deliberation through research: qualitative methods and public engagement with science and technology. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/qualiti/WorkingPapers/Qualiti_WPS_007.pdf
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2008. You cannot be serious! Public understanding of technology with special reference to 'Hawk-Eye'. Public Understanding of Science 17(3), pp. 283-308. (10.1177/0963662508093370)
Evans, R. J. and Kotchetkova, I. 2008. Qualiti methods briefing number 2 - Facilitation or interpretation?: Qualitative research and deliberative methods. Cardiff: Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/qualiti/MethodsBriefResearchFind/MethodsBriefing02.pdf
Evans, R. J. 2008. The sociology of expertise: the distribution of social fluency. Sociology Compass 2(1), pp. 281-298. (10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00062.x)
Kotchetkova, I., Evans, R. J. and Langer, S. 2008. Articulating contextualized knowledge: focus groups and/as public participation?. Science as Culture 17(1), pp. 71-84. (10.1080/09505430701872897)

2007

Evans, R. J. and Plows, A. J. 2007. Listening Without Prejudice? Re-Discovering the Value of the Disinterested Citizen. Social Studies of Science 37(6), pp. 827-854. (10.1177/0306312707076602)
Collins, H. M., Evans, R. J. and Gorman, M. 2007. Trading zones and interactional expertise. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 38(4), pp. 657-666. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.09.003)
Evans, R. J. 2007. Social networks and private spaces in economic forecasting. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 38(4), pp. 686-697. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.09.011)
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. 2007. Rethinking expertise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2007. Expertise: from attribute to attribution and back again?. In: Hackett, E. et al. eds. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 609-630.
Welsh, I., Plows, A. and Evans, R. J. 2007. Human rights and genomics: science, genomics and social movements at the 2004 London Social Forum. New Genetics and Society 26(2), pp. 123-135. (10.1080/14636770701466816)
Evans, R. J., Plows, A. and Welsh, I. 2007. Towards an anatomy of public engagement with medical genetics. In: Atkinson, P., Glasner, P. and Greenslade, H. eds. New Genetics, New Identities. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 139-156.

2006

Collins, H. M., Evans, R. J., Ribeiro, R. and Hall, M. 2006. Experiments with interactional expertise. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37(4), pp. 656-674. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2006.09.005)
Evans, R. J. and Marvin, S. 2006. Researching the sustainable city: three modes of interdisciplinarity. Environment and Planning A 38(6), pp. 1009-1028. (10.1068/a37317)
Evans, R. J. 2006. Evaluating an electronic plagiarism detection service: The importance of trust and the difficulty of proving students don't cheat. Active Learning in Higher Education 7(1), pp. 87-99. (10.1177/1469787406061150)
Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2006. The third wave of science studies: studies of expertise and experience. In: Selinger, E. and Crease, R. eds. The Philosophy of Expertise. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, pp. 39-110.

2005

Evans, R. J. 2005. Introduction: Demarcation socialized: constructing boundaries and recognizing difference. Science, Technology & Human Values 30(1), pp. 3-16. (10.1177/0162243904270713)

2004

Evans, R. J. 2004. Talking About Money: Public Participation and Expert Knowledge in the Euro Referendum. The British Journal of Sociology 55(1), pp. 35-53. (10.1111/j.1468-4446.2004.00005.x)

2003

Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2003. King Canute meets the Beach Boys: responses to the Third Wave. Social Studies of Science 33(3), pp. 435-452. (10.1177/03063127030333007)

2002

Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2002. The Third Wave of Science Studies: Studies of Expertise and Experience. Social Studies of Science 32(2), pp. 235-296. (10.1177/0306312702032002003)
Welsh, I. and Evans, R. 2002. Xenotransplantation, risk, regulation and surveillance: social and technological dimensions of change. In: Chadwick, R. and Schroeder, D. eds. Applied Ethics: Critical Concepts in Philosophy., Vol. 3. Ethical Issues in Medicine, Technology and the Life Sciences London: Routledge, pp. 146-168.

2001

Evans, R. J., Guy, S. and Marvin, S. 2001. Views of the city: multiple pathways to sustainable transport futures. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 6(2), pp. 121-133. (10.1080/13549830120052773)

1999

Evans, R. J. 1999. Macroeconomic forecasting: a sociological appraisal. Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy. Abingdon: Routledge.
Evans, R. J. 1999. Economic models and policy advice: theory choice or moral choice?. Science in Context 12(2), pp. 351-376. (10.1017/S026988970000346X)
Evans, R. J., Guy, S. and Marvin, S. 1999. Making a difference: sociology of scientific knowledge and urban energy policies. Science, Technology & Human Values 24(1), pp. 105-131. (10.1177/016224399902400106)
Welsh, I. and Evans, R. J. 1999. Xenotransplantation, risk, regulation and surveillance: social and technological dimensions of change. New Genetics and Society 18(2-3), pp. 197-217. (10.1080/14636779908656899)

1998

Evans, R. J. 1998. Economic models: the past, present and future?. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 16(2), pp. 115-122. (10.1080/14615517.1998.10590196)

1997

Evans, R. J. 1997. Soothsaying or science?: Falsification, uncertainty and social change in macroeconomic modelling. Social Studies of Science 27(3), pp. 395-438. (10.1177/030631297027003002)

1996

Kirchler, E., Fehr, E. and Evans, R. J. 1996. Social exchange in the labor market: reciprocity and trust versus egoistic money maximization. Journal of Economic Psychology 17(3), pp. 313-341. (10.1016/0167-4870(96)00013-X)

Mae fy ymchwil gyfredol yn canolbwyntio ar ddwy brif thema:

Astudiaethau Arbenigedd a Phrofiad (SEE). Sail y gwaith hwn yw'r papur 'Third Wave of Science Studies', a ysgrifennwyd ar y cyd â'r Athro Harry Collins ac a gyhoeddwyd yn 2002. Mae hyn wedi arwain at y teipoleg arbenigedd a nodir yn Rethinking Expertise (2007), archwiliad o Why Democratcies Need Science (2017) ac, yn fwyaf diweddar, beirniadaeth o wleidyddiaeth populist a gyhoeddwyd fel Experts and the Will of the People (2020). Mae prosiectau sy'n gysylltiedig â hyn yn cynnwys darparu cyngor gwyddonol i lywodraeth y DU yn ystod camau cynnar pandemig covid-19, prosiect gwyddoniaeth dinasyddion wedi'i leoli yng Nghanolfan Cymdeithas Sifil WISERD a rôl fentora o fewn prosiect LPIP Cymru Wledig .
Arbenigedd rhyngweithiol a'r gêm dynwared. Un o'r deilliannau mwyaf cynhyrchiol o'r gwaith ar arbenigedd yw'r syniad o arbenigedd rhyngweithiol a datblygiad y Gêm Dynwared. Wedi'i chynllunio'n wreiddiol fel prawf prawf cysyniad ar gyfer y syniad o arbenigedd rhyngweithiol, arweiniodd y Gêm Dynwared at grant Ymchwil Uwch € 2.26M gan yr ERC'. Mae canlyniadau cynnar y gwaith hwn ar gael fel erthyglau cyfnodolion, gyda'r prosiect yn ei gyfanrwydd bellach yn cael ei ysgrifennu fel ymchwil 'Llawlyfr Gêm Dynwared' a fydd yn cael ei gyflwyno i MIT Press yn haf 2025. Mae gwaith mewn arbenigedd rhyngweithiol bellach yn cael ei ddefnyddio i ddatblygu rhaglen ymchwil sy'n gwerthuso ac yn beirniadu defnyddiau posibl Modelau Iaith Mawr (LLMs).

Ymunais â'r Ysgol Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol ym mis Ionawr 1998, yn dilyn swydd ymchwil 2 flynedd yn y Ganolfan Technoleg Trefol ym Mhrifysgol Newcastle upon Tyne a chyfnod byr fel Cymrawd Addysgu yn yr LSE.

Yn y 25+ mlynedd rydw i wedi bod yng Nghaerdydd, rwyf wedi dysgu dulliau ymchwil cymdeithasol – ansoddol a meintiol – ac astudiaethau gwyddoniaeth a thechnoleg ar draws ystod lawn ein rhaglenni israddedig ac ôl-raddedig. Rwyf hefyd wedi ymgymryd ag ystod o rolau gweinyddol, gan gynnwys Cyfarwyddwr Addysgu a Dysgu (2015-2020), ac ar hyn o bryd rwy'n Ddirprwy Bennaeth yr Ysgol.

Trwy gydol y cyfnod hwn, mae fy ngwaith ymchwil wedi bod yn neilltuo i ddatblygu'r 'Drydedd Don o Astudiaethau Gwyddoniaeth', a elwir hefyd yn 'Astudiaethau Arbenigedd a Phrofiad'. Gellir olrhain tarddiad hyn i bapur yn 2002, a ysgrifennwyd ar y cyd â'r Athro Harry Collins, sydd wedi arwain at amrywiaeth o brosiectau damcaniaethol, methodolegol ac empirig. Efallai mai'r mwyaf boddhaol o'r rhain yw'r gweithdai SEESHOP sydd wedi cael eu cynnal bob blwyddyn ers 2007, gyda'r casgliad golygedig hwn – Y drydedd don mewn astudiaethau gwyddoniaeth a thechnoleg: cyfeiriadau ymchwil yn y dyfodol ar arbenigedd a phrofiad – yn cynnwys rhai o'r cyfraniadau mwy diweddar.

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Editorial Board Member: Social Studies of Science; Methodological Innovations Online
Member of: Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Referee for journals including SSS, ST&HV, PUS, AJS, ASR, Minerva and BJS; for grant awarding bodies including ESRC, NSF and Research Council of Norway
Fellow of ILT, now Higher Education Academy, since 2003

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