Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation, Politics and International Relations subject area of the School of Social and Political Science.
Full academic profile is available here.
Other positions
(2019- ) Academic Lead for Democratic Innovation at Edinburgh Futures Institute
(2017-2020) UK Principal Investigator for Smart Urban Intermediaries: Trans-European Research, Learning and Action
(2017-2020) Co-Investigator of Distant Voices: Coming Home
(2015-2019) Co-Director of What Works Scotland
Research interests:
- Commons
- Governance of the future
- Policy making and policy workers
- Participation and deliberation in policy making
- Participatory and deliberative democracy
- Collaborative governance (e.g. partnerships)
- Public service reform
- Democratic innovations (i.e. mini-publics, participatory budgeting)
- Political communication (i.e. dialogue and deliberation)
- Facilitation, mediation and consensus building
- Community/Public engagement practice and practitioners
- Knowledge brokering
- Science & society
- Emotions in politics and policy
College Research Themes
- Governance & Democracy
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Reviving the Commons? A Scoping Review of Urban and Digital Commoning
Henderson, J. & Escobar, O., 30 Aug 2024, Data Civics Observatory - Edinburgh Futures Institute. 82 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Opening the Black Box: Facilitation in a Changing World
Zubizarreta, R. & Escobar, O., 1 Jul 2024, Deliberative Democracy Digest.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
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Imagination in Action: Environmental Education, Civic Engagement and Democratic Innovation
Escobar, O., 8 May 2024, North American Association for Environmental Education.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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Citizen Engagement in Evidence-Informed Policy-Making: A Guide to Mini-Publics
Escobar, O. & Henderson, J., 15 Feb 2024, Geneva: World Health Organization. 106 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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In/visibility, public-making and the politics of becoming
Escobar, O., 8 Nov 2023, In: Democratic Theory. 10, 2, p. 99-103 5 p., 3.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Open AccessFile
Activities
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Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference 2021
James Henderson (Presenter), Philip Revell (Presenter) & Oliver Escobar (Presenter)
30 Jun 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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'Innovations in democratic governance', keynote speech at International Conference of Municipal Clerks
Oliver Escobar (Keynote speaker)
7 Jun 2019Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Navigating the boundaries of methodological innovation and public service reform: Learning from the What Works Scotland programme (2014-2018)
Hayley Bennett (Invited speaker) & Oliver Escobar (Invited speaker)
13 Mar 2019Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Webinar - Beyond dissemination: dialogue in science public engagement
Oliver Escobar (Speaker)
10 Apr 2018Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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'Improving decision making: Delivering better outcomes through public participation and deliberation', keynote speech at EXCEL Annual Conference
Oliver Escobar (Keynote speaker)
20 Feb 2018Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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INSPIRE: Intersectional Spaces of Participation: Inclusive, Resilient, Embedded
1/04/24 → 31/03/27
Project: Research
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BR-UK: Behavioural Research UK Leadership Hub
Bauld, L., Escobar, O. & Fry, D.
Economic and Social Research Council
1/11/23 → 31/10/28
Project: Research
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Supporting local acceleration in Granton through Inclusive, data driven and participatory engagement
5/01/22 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
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Datasets
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Citizens' Juries on Windfarms in Scotland
Escobar, O. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 20 Aug 2021
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3117
Dataset
Press/Media
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Interview for UNIR, Magazine of the International University of La Rioja
27/09/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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BBC Radio Scotland Sunday Morning / Participation and cynicism
29/04/16
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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Live Twinterview to the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis about the paper "Scripting deliberative policy making"
5/04/16
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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PhD researcher Anna Ross discusses flaws in legislation regarding legal highs
Angus Bancroft & Oliver Escobar
15/04/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment