Articles by: Chloe Ward

Author Biography:

Chloe Ward holds a PhD in history from Melbourne University. She is a research officer in the EU Centre of Excellence at RMIT University, where her current research focuses on social and ecological transitions in Europe and Australia. She also writes a regular newsletter for Australian Unions.

Alan Roberts Prize Essay: The Limits of Science Communication

Knowledge and scientific understanding could have been a democratic inheritance... Instead the West—that is, a powerful, liberal consensus in the West—doubled down on an elitist, technocratic politics, inattentive to social need or the growing crisis of democratic representation...