Associate professor, Department of Political Science, Denmark
During his Carlsberg Monograph Fellowship, Lars Thorup Larsen will be working on the project 'Have people stopped listening to science? How citizens gauge the authority of expert knowledge'
The objective is to write a book about how lay people understand expert knowledge and how they decide when to follow or ignore expert advice, for example regarding diet or vaccines. Contrary to the polarized public debate, most people are not squarely pro- or anti-science, but often combine elements of both praising science while still keeping some experts at arm’s length.
Lars Thorup Larsen is a Carlsberg Monograph Fellow at AIAS and an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University. His main research fields are comparative health politics and policy, the sociology of professions and expertise, professional authority, morality politics, and the World Health Organization.
Project title: Have people stopped listening to science? How citizens gauge the authority of expert knowledge
Area of research: Sociology of knowledge
Fellowship period: 1 Sep 2026 - Jul 2027
Fellowship type: Carlsberg Monograph Fellow
Contact: Lars@ps.au.dk
This fellowship has received funding from The Carlsberg Foundation under the monograph fellowships.
