About

IASC is a large international hub-and-spoke network, uniquely able to survey the world's scientists on an ongoing basis, providing rich datasets regarding the opinions of scientists and scientific sub-communities, both at a time and also as opinions fluctuate over time. This includes the special case of ascertaining strength of scientific consensus regarding a particular statement of interest. The international reach of IASC's network also reveals any variation of scientific opinion across countries or geographical regions. Following a successful pilot project running 2022-23 (involving 30 institutions), 80 institutions have now provisionally agreed to be part of the IASC network during the 2024-27 project. The 80 institutions are listed below, together with the "spoke representative" for each institution.

The 2024-27 IASC Network (80 institutions)

Europe (24 institutions)

  • Durham University (Peter Vickers)
  • University of Oxford (Neil Levy)
  • Cambridge University (Jacob Stegenga)
  • University of Exeter (Stephan Guttinger)
  • University of Birmingham (Henry Taylor)
  • University of Leeds (Simon Graf and Ludovica Adamo)
  • University College London (Rory Jubber)
  • Edinburgh University (Nathalie Dupin and Kaja Horn)
  • University of Lancaster (Sam Fellowes)
  • University of Iceland (Finnur Dellsen)
  • Linköping University (Harald Wiltsche)
  • Stockholm University (Henning Strandin)
  • Uppsala University (Rebecca Wallbank)
  • University of Amsterdam (Paula Helm)
  • University of Helsinki (Petri Ylikoski)
  • University of Glasgow (Mike Townsen Hicks)
  • University of Bristol (Lena Zuchowski)
  • University of Vienna (Martin Kusch)
  • University of Cologne (Thomas Blanchard)
  • University of Bonn (Dennis Lehmkuhl)
  • Ludwig Maximillian University (Christian List)
  • Sorbonne University (Cédric Paternotte)
  • KU Leuven (Andreas Deblock)
  • University of Zurich (Francis Cheneval and Elisabeth Stark)

North America (12 institutions)

  • University of Guelph (Maya Goldenberg)
  • Stanford University (Anncy Thresher)
  • Purdue University (Dana Tulodziecki)
  • University of Nebraska Omaha (Haixin Dang)
  • University of California, Irvine (Kyle Stanford)
  • University of California, San Diego (Gabriel Nyberg)
  • University of Pittsburgh (Edouard Machery and Laura Gradowski)
  • Bucknell University (Matthew Slater)
  • University of Pennsylvania (Cory Clark and Jesse Hamilton)
  • University of British Columbia (Heidi Tworek and Chris Tenove)
  • University of Toronto (Mark Hallap)
  • UNAM, Mexico (Aline Guevara)

South America (6 institutions)

  • CONICET, Argentina (Eleanora Cresto)
  • UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro (Carolina Araujo)
  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Maria Cecília de Miranda N. Coelho)
  • Unicamp (Brazil) (Cristiano Torezzan)
  • University of Buenos Aires (Santiago Ginnobili)
  • Universidad de los Andes (Manuela Fernández Pinto)

Asia (17 institutions)

  • University of Hong Kong (Tong King Lee)
  • Hokkaido University (Kengo Miyazono)
  • University of Calcutta (Dilipkumar Mohanta)
  • Annamalai University (J. Thirumal)
  • Ateneo de Manila University (Guss Rodriguez)
  • Nanyang Technological University (Grace Boey)
  • National University of Singapore (Isaac Wilhelm)
  • University of the Philippines (Liza Ocampo and K.C. Abalos-Orendain)
  • Kathmandu University (Uddhab Pyakurel)
  • Universitas Airlangga (Unair) (Prof. Dr. Purnawan Basundoro)
  • University of Malaya (Azizan Baharuddin)
  • University of Tokyo (Kohji Ishihara)
  • Universiti Brunei Darussalam (Daniel Wee and Abby Tan)
  • NYCU Taiwan (Mike T. Stuart)
  • University of Hyderabad (Shinod N. K.)
  • Bogazici University (Lucas Thorpe)
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Arnon Levy)

Africa (9 institutions)

  • University of Ibadan (Adeshina Afolayan)
  • The University of Western Cape (Simon Beck)
  • University of Ghana (Hasskei Mohammed Majeed)
  • North West University (Ananka Loubser)
  • Addis Ababa (Jonathan Trigg and Professor Bekele Gutema)
  • University of KwaZulu-Natal (David Spurrett)
  • Assiut University (Mahmoud Ali)
  • University of Johannesburg (Sean Muller)
  • Pretoria (Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem)

Australasia (12 institutions)

  • Macquarie University (Mark Alfano)
  • University of Otago (Zach Weber)
  • Monash University (Toby Handfield)
  • University of Sydney (Richard North and Kathy Belov)
  • University of Melbourne (Howard Sankey and Fiona Fidler)
  • University of Adelaide (Antony Eagle)
  • University of Canterbury (Elizabeth Hopkins, Ian Wright, and Jack Copeland)
  • Victoria University of Wellington (Richard Joyce)
  • University of Western Australia (Chris Letheby)
  • University of New South Wales (Michaelis Michael)
  • University of Auckland (Emily Parke)
  • University of Queensland (Andrew Crowden)

IASC Advisory Board

  1. Naomi Oreskes (Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, USA) Steve Lewandowsky (Chair in Cognitive Psychology, Bristol, UK)
  2. Steve Lewandowsky (Chair in Cognitive Psychology, Bristol, UK)
    • "Special Advisor for Methodology"
  3. Nick Allum (quantitative social scientist and Professor of Research Methodology, University of Essex, UK)
    • "Special Advisor for Methodology"
  4. Brandon Vaidyanathan (Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, The Catholic University of America, USA)
    • "Special Advisor for Methodology"
  5. John H. Evans (Tata Chancellor's Chair in Social Sciences; Associate Dean of Social Sciences; Department of Sociology, UCSD, USA)
    • "Special Advisor for Methodology"
  6. Cory Clark (Behavioral Scientist, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  7. Henry Taylor (Philosopher of Psychology, Birmingham, UK)
  8. Angela Woods (Director of the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham, UK)
  9. Sanford Goldberg (Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern, USA)
  10. Michael O"Rourke (Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State, USA)
  11. Peter Heslin (Professor and Data Science Specialist, Durham, UK)
  12. Alan Real (Director of Advanced Research Computing, Durham, UK)
  13. Mariann Hardey (Professor, Durham University Business School, UK)
  14. Mike Bath (Research Commercialisation and Exploitation, Durham University, UK)
  15. Kieran Fernandes (Associate Dean for Internationalisation, Durham University Business School, UK)
  16. Tarun Menon (Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India)
  17. Wei Wang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
  18. Dave Sweet (MD, FRCP(C); "Clarity" Co-President and Co-Founder)
  19. Tom Lamb (JD; Entrepreneur; "Clarity" Co-President and Co-Founder)

Beta-Testing Group

IASC has a beta-testing group of 116 scientists, as listed below. Every survey is initially tested by the core team (alpha testing), then by our Beta-Testing Group, before any full rollout across the entire network. In addition to testing the basic mechanics of the survey methodology, this also serves as a means to acquire all different kinds of potentially valuable feedback, prior to full rollout.

  1. Alice Roberts (Birmingham)
  2. Jim Al-Khalili (Surrey)
  3. Avi Loeb (Harvard)
  4. Jane Hutton (Warwick)
  5. Tim Downing (Pirbright)
  6. Tim Bedding (Sydney)
  7. Þröstur Þorsteinsson (Iceland)
  8. Jens Svenning (Aarhus)
  9. Steve Brusatte (Edinburgh)
  10. Soazig Casteau (Durham)
  11. Sean McMahon (Edinburgh)
  12. Anantha Murthy Sharath (Hyderabad)
  13. Bob Kentridge (Durham)
  14. Rajeev Gupta (Delhi)
  15. Ravi Kopparapu (NASA)
  16. Nadia Jacobo (Mexico)
  17. Marc Knight (Durham)
  18. Melanie Davies (NHS, UK)
  19. Carina Hoorn (Amsterdam)
  20. Madeleine Humphreys (Durham)
  21. Luke Drury (Dublin)
  22. Juan Carlos Letelier (Chile)
  23. Lars-Olof Palsson (Durham)
  24. Jose Villadangos (Melbourne)
  25. Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Sydney)
  26. John Hammond (Pirbright)
  27. Joby Joseph (Hyderabad)
  28. James Baldini (Durham)
  29. Julio Alcayaga (Chile)
  30. Sören Holst (Stockholm)
  31. Henrik Mouritsen (Oldenburg)
  32. Göran Kecklund (Stockholm)
  33. Felix Riede (Aarhus)
  34. Evy Vanberlo (Amsterdam)
  35. Erik Svensson (Lund)
  36. Kristine Engemann (Aarhus)
  37. Liza Eleroux Aarhus)
  38. Ehmke Pohl (Durham)
  39. Beth Bromley (Durham)
  40. Martijn Egas (Amsterdam)
  41. Dorothy Cowie (Durham)
  42. David Dryden (Durham)
  43. Casimir Ludwig (Bristol)
  44. Axel Maas (Graz)
  45. Arto Maatta (Durham)
  46. Alejandro Ordonez (Aarhus)
  47. Anil Seth (Sussex)
  48. Alejandro Heredia (Mexico)
  49. Aakash Basu (Durham)
  50. Stephanie Burton (Pretoria)
  51. Wolf-Dieter Schubert (Pretoria)
  52. Emanuela Carleschi (Johannesburg)
  53. Meng-Xiang Lin (Pennsylvania)
  54. Kriveshini Pillay (Johannesburg)
  55. Gijsbert Hoogendoorn (Johannesburg)
  56. Rocco Duvenhage (Pretoria)
  57. Wlady Altermann (Johannesburg)
  58. Angus Buckling (Exeter)
  59. Michael Kolios (Toronto)
  60. Philip Heron (Toronto)
  61. Ellen Warner (Toronto)
  62. Josh Darr (Nebraska-Omaha)
  63. David Weinkove (Durham)
  64. Fabian Wadsworth (Durham)
  65. Keith Lindsey (Durham)
  66. Thomas Fauchez (NASA)
  67. Jacob Haqq Misra (Blue Marble Space Institute of Science)
  68. Marc Choisy (OUCRU)
  69. Ina Anreiter (Toronto)
  70. Mohamad Ali (Uppsala)
  71. Paul Denny (Durham)
  72. Brian Suarez-Mantilla (Durham)
  73. Jon Warren (Warwick)
  74. Katie Allen (Durham)
  75. Colin Davis (Bristol)
  76. L Glaser (Vienna)
  77. Biagio Lucini (Swansea)
  78. Aayush Saxena (Oxford)
  79. Christophe Corso (France)
  80. Tom Lane (UCI)
  81. Harinder Singh (Pittsburgh)
  82. Huw Davies (UCI)
  83. Ed Burton (Pittsburgh)
  84. Haitao Liu (Pittsburgh)
  85. Burhan Gharaibeh (Pittsburgh)
  86. Yaacov Barak (Magee)
  87. Jim Faeder (Pittsburgh)
  88. Diego Szczupak (Pittsburgh)
  89. Michael Shurin (UPMC)
  90. Maisha Reza (Exeter)
  91. Pablo Laragon (UCI)
  92. Jonas Larson (Stockholm)
  93. Jolanta Piszczek (Vancouver/Clarity)
  94. Juan Ronco (UBC)
  95. Erik Vu (UBC)
  96. Will Panenka (UBC)
  97. Don Griesdale (UBC)
  98. Hafiza Parkar (Pretoria)
  99. Dan Brierley (UCL)
  100. Sandip Patel (UCL)
  101. Chamkaur Ghag (UCL)
  102. Alasdair MacLullich (Edinburgh)
  103. Bastien Grosso (Birmingham)
  104. Walter Federle (Cambridge)
  105. Pete Rawson (UCL Emeritus)
  106. Steve Fossey (UCL)
  107. Nick Barber (UCL)
  108. Ben Bose (Edinburgh)
  109. John Ellis (Cambridge)
  110. Tuan Duong (Pretoria)
  111. Natalie Schellack (Pretoria)
  112. John Finney (UCL)
  113. Miguel Anaya (Cambridge)
  114. Liezel van der Merwe (Pretoria)
  115. Kali Romano (UBC)
  116. Devin Harris (Health Quality B.C.)