Five minutes with Nikolas Rose: “The imperative to make exaggerated promises about impact is damaging to the science itself”

Chris Gilson, Managing Editor of our sister blog USApp, recently interviewed Nikolas Rose, Head of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King’s College London and one of the principal investigators of the interdisciplinary, European Commission-funded Human Brain Project. Here he discusses social science’s relationship with STEM disciplines, the interplay between research and policy, and how his team has approached the tricky area of public engagement.