These are a series of seminars for post-doctoral fellows, PhD students and the Mediated Trust research team on the theme of “Trust, Institutions and Governance”. The aims of the seminars are:
To ground the concept of trust in institutions and organisations, as an intermediate (meso) point between interpersonal and societal trust.
To consider leading theories of trust, truth and communication, and consensus, critical and conflict models of social order, and how they shape understandings of trust.
To discuss institutionalism as a set of theories and methods that can inform the study of trust by grounding it in the historical development of social institutions.
To consider the concept of governance as a way of understanding contemporary forms of politics, power and regulation.
