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Biography

I have been at the University of Edinburgh since 2010, and I am currently Senior Lecturer in Public Policy in the Politics and International Relations subject area of the School of Social and Political Science.

My full academic profile is available here.

Current 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:

  • 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 and Democracy

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