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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: How to Create the Conditions Where Science Can Help -- An Illustration: Science Advice During the Fukushima Emergency -- Framing the Moment -- Models of the Policy-Maker and Their Environment -- Roles of the Scientist -- Bringing Science and Scientists Together to Serve Policy -- End Note: Craft and Curation -- References -- Chapter 2: How to Express Risk, Confidence and (Un)Certainty -- Risk Management Is Core to Government -- Risk and Innovation -- The Power of Numbers -- The Influence of Images -- The Importance of Words -- Error, Uncertainty and Decision-Making -- References -- Chapter 3: How to Think About the Future -- Models Link Past, Present and Future -- Why Futures Work Is Essential -- Uses of Foresight and Anticipation -- Playful Models and Serious Games -- Some Roles of Narrative -- Narratives and Futures -- Narrative Understudied? -- References -- Chapter 4: How to Engage with Publics -- Democracy and Science -- Many Publics -- The Law -- The Market -- Lenses -- Forms of Scientific Expertise -- The Craft Skill of Constructing Conversations -- Opinion-Forming -- Who Sets the Questions? -- References -- Chapter 5: How to Ensure That When a Minister Meets a Nobel Laureate They Both Have a Great Encounter -- The Three-Body Problem -- Craft and Curation -- Rhythms -- Systems and Tribes -- Trust, Post Truth and Where Next -- References -- Index.

Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning. Dillon and Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering narrative evidence that will complement and strengthen, not distort, other forms of evidence, including that from science. Focusing on the cognitive and the collective, Dillon and Craig show how stories offer alternative points of view, create and cohere collective identities, function as narrative models, and play a crucial role in anticipation. They explore these four functions in areas of public reasoning where decisions are strongly influenced by contentious knowledge and powerful imaginings: climate change, artificial intelligence, the economy, and nuclear weapons and power. Vivid performative readings of stories from The Ballad of Tam-Lin to The Terminator demonstrate the insights that storylistening can bring and the ways it might be practised. The book provokes a reimagining of what a public humanities might look like, and shows how the structures and practices of public reasoning can evolve to better incorporate narrative evidence. Storylistening aims to create the conditions in which the important task of listening to stories is possible, expected, and becomes endemic. Taking the reader through complex ideas from different disciplines in ways that do not require any prior knowledge, this book is an essential read for policymakers, political scientists, students of literary studies, and anyone interested in the public humanities and the value, importance, and operation of narratives.

Over the past two years, COVID has illustrated how research benefit can be accelerated when need, resources and opportunity coincide. It has also demonstrated the challenges of implementing even relatively simple evidence-based interventions, such as mask wearing and vaccines. The global pandemic response has repeatedly shown that Joe Langley et al 2 evidence use is a complex social process determined by multiple financial, political, ethical, technological, ecological, temporal, and social factors – often in tension with each other. It has underlined the myriad influences on, and gaps between, evidence, knowledge, and action and reminds us of the need for diverse views to inform policy and practice. Co-production is a method that can help weave social factors into the creation and shaping of policy and practice that is easily adopted. Its use has consequently proliferated, and the term has become ubiquitous within research and policy development. Despite this, questions remain regarding what constitutes co-production, what it involves and how to do it well (Green and Johns, 2019), particularly concerning the authenticity of its application and tokenistic use. A previous special issue of this journal (Metz et al, 2019) explored this topic looking at 'Co-creative approaches to knowledge production'. The editors suggested '… a greater focus on the topic of creativity…' and its application in this space would add to the debate and develop it further. This special issue now picks up that thread by setting out to explore: 1. How is creativity applied within co-production? 2. How does such creativity influence the incorporation of evidence into policy or practice? 3. What impact(s) or effect(s) does creativity have in these applications? 4. What are the implications of this, and for whom?