Advisory Board

Professor Christina Boswell

Professor of Politics, University of Edinburgh

Professor Christina Boswell FBA FAcSS FRSE is Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh, where until recently she served as Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Enterprise. Her research focuses on the use of research and expert knowledge in policymaking. Her books include States of Ignorance (2023), Manufacturing Political Trust (2018), and The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge (2009), all published with Cambridge University Press. She has a track record of policy engagement, including advisory roles for UNHRC, OECD, the European Commission, and UK and Scottish Government. She is a member of the Home Office Scientific Advisory Council, and currently on secondment to the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology. She has served as Vice President for Public Policy at The British Academy since 2021 and is a member of ESRC Council.

Caterina Benincasa

Head of SciArt Project, European Commission's Joint Research Centre

Caterina Benincasa is curator and head of the SciArt project at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). With a background in physics, philosophy, history of science, contemporary art, and heritage studies, she has spent two decades fostering dialogue across art-science-heritage. At the JRC, she develops opportunities for collaboration and co-creation between artists, scientists, and policymakers.

Professor Tessa Giblin

Professor of Contemporary Curating and Director of the Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh

Professor Tessa Giblin is the Director of Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh and holds a Personal Chair in Contemporary Curating with Edinburgh College of Art. She has held curatorial positions in Scotland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Aotearoa/New Zealand, where she was born and raised.

While at Talbot Rice Gallery, she has curated and published books with Wael Shawky, El Anatsui, Angelica Mesiti, Emeka Ogboh, Anne Hardy, Celine Condorelli, Jesse Jones and Samson Young, and curated many group exhibitions that engage with the world around us, seeking to depolarise our national conversation by discussing vital issues through contemporary art. She was previously Curator of Project Arts Centre in Dublin 2006-16, guest curator of the 2015 steirischer herbst festival exhibition in Graz, Austria, and Commissioner & Curator of Ireland at Venice Biennale in 2017 with Jesse Jones’ Tremble Tremble, an exhibition that later toured to Bilbao, Adelaide, Singapore, Dublin and Edinburgh.