Data Delusions: Navigating Perceptions in a Sea of Information

• Florence School of Transnational Governance

The STG Talks, held weekly at Palazzo Buontalenti, serve as a space for discussion for the STG community and beyond. Led by the STG Fellows, the talks are a place for informal learning and exchange on global issues affecting different areas of policymaking.

How do our perceptions shape the way we interpret data and make decisions on migration issues? How can we communicate data on migration and the refugee experience in a more effective way?

This STG talk will be an engaging and interactive session exploring public attitudes towards migration data and how narrative is shaped by our perceptions. We will examine migration data from the lens of different stakeholders in an experiential exercise, followed by a conversation on approaches to data communications in this sphere. The discussion will invite perspectives from policy, communications, and the lived experience of displacement.

Speakers:

• Yen Mooi, Policy Leader Fellow
• Puot Nyang Both, Florence School of Transnational Governance
• Stephanie Acker, Migration Policy Center, Robert Schuman Centre
• Lorenzo Piccoli, Migration Policy Center, Robert Schuman Centre

Please note this is an in-person event. No zoom link will be provided upon registration.