The document summarizes Andy Stirling's work at SPRU related to building back better after COVID-19, including research on vaccine innovation, diagnostic testing, data governance for testing apps, lessons from past pandemics according to the WHO, challenges of the pandemic for transformation, structural change for UN agencies, steering innovation pathways for UNDP, governance of expertise in science and politics for COVID-19, modeling lessons for public policy, science politics and governance around pandemics, power and politics in science and innovation, a new book on politics of uncertainty in transformation, how the pandemic highlights a modern fallacy of control, and leading a cross-campus initiative on a post-pandemic university.

1. Sussex Development Lectures: Kick-off Panel
‘Building Back Better’ after COVID-19
some links to key relevant SPRU work
Andy Stirling, 1st October 2020
• Work around a European Research Council grant looking at innovation in vaccines
• Research around a Medical Research Council grant looking at diagnostic testing
• Emerging lessons on data governance for testing apps
• Work focusing on the World Health Organisation, looking at lessons from past pandemics
• Overview of collective SPRU experience about challenges of pandemic for transformation
• Advisory work for UN agencies (ECLAC and UNDESA) on post-pandemic structural change
• Core work in STRINGS project for UNDP on steering pathways for research and innovation
• Longstanding work on governance of expertise to science and politics for covid-19
• Collaborative article in Nature on lessons for manifesto for modelling for public policy
• STEPS Centre work on science politics and governance around pandemics
• Wider research on power and politics in science, innovation and transformation
• New Routledge book on the politics of uncertainty in transformation
• Work on how the pandemic shines a light on a general 'fallacy of control' in modernity
• SPRU lead in cross-campus initiative on towards a post pandemic university