Public Trust in Science: Landscape Mapping
This report presents a review of recent evidence on public trust in science across Europe, the United States and Canada.
Eva Coringrato (she/her) is a senior analyst at RAND Europe. Her work spans science and emerging technology policy, with particular focus on responsible innovation, metascience, biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. Her work supports policymakers and research funders in understanding and managing the challenges of new and emerging technologies, promoting responsible research, effective collaboration, and advancing metascientific approaches to improve how science is conducted and evaluated.
An experienced qualitative and quantitative researcher and project manager, she has delivered research and analysis for UKRI, DSIT, the UK Metascience Unit and Wellcome. Her recent and ongoing work includes a landscape study of public trust in science, a framework for evaluating wastewater and environmental programmes, a study on oversight frameworks for emerging technologies, and a study on the factors supporting successful interdisciplinary research collaborations. Coringrato is also an experienced evaluator, contributing to evaluations of the Global Challenges Research Fund, Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and the UK’s investments in the European Space Agency. She is also affiliated with RAND Europe’s Centre for Futures and Foresight Studies.
Before joining RAND, Coringrato worked as an academic research assistant at the University of Colorado, contributing to multiple studies examining the health impacts of nature-based community interventions. She holds an M.Phil. in population health sciences from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. in environmental studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Education
M.Phil. in population health sciences, University of Cambridge; B.A. in environmental studies, University of Colorado