Just had the privilege of interviewing Nancy Fraser w. Nick Vlahos 4 a 4thcoming special ed. of Democratic Theory w.The Butterfly Collector 🦋 on 'democratising the economy' bit.ly/3OYikJ0, watch this space, contributions by Bernd Bonfert Neil Harris Heather Whiteside Dan Durrant & more

More theoretical support for idea that diversity improves performance on complex tasks and hinders performance on easy ones. Might add that with humans, easy tasks can build trust and ability to communicate with one another. This is a really good paper!!! nature.com/articles/s4159…

The Centre for Behavioral Experimental Action and Research (C-BEAR) is launching its first summer school on RCTs from the 1st to the 5th of July soton NCRM. More details 👇👇👇 ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.…

The nitty gritty of sortition and representativeness claims from Kyle Redman Paolo Spada Tiago C. Peixoto in the Deliberative Democracy Digest Journal of Deliberative Democracy publicdeliberation.net/how-representa…

A conversation on the representativeness of citizens assemblies was one that needed to happen. Thanks to Kyle Redman Dr Lucy J Parry and Nicole Curato for making it happen! #delibdem

Citizens assemblies and other mini-publics are often ‘sold’ as representative of the wider public. Is this a responsible claim?

Conversation featuring Tiago C. Peixoto Paolo Spada & Kyle Redman published by Journal of Deliberative Democracy edited by Dr Lucy J Parry.

publicdeliberation.net/how-representa…

Tomorrow we are launching the Handbook of Collective Intelligence. My chapter is a weird attempt at creating an interdisciplinary language for CI evaluation based on my H2020 rollercoaster evaluation experience. eventbrite.be/e/how-will-col…

On June 14th we are launching the Handbook on Collective Intelligence at 4 CEST. It's a mix of practical examples and reflections on the side of the field that is at the intersection of Psychology/Computer Science/Governance, so a slightly different angle
eventbrite.be/e/how-will-col…

I was on #capitalisnt to talk about #opendemocracy #citizensassemblies and the #wisdomofcrowds . Really psyched by the response from Zingales, who wants to see #minipublics tried in firms, & Bethany McLean, despite her worry about capture by lobbyists capitalisnt.com/episodes/polit…

🗞️ Our May roundup is out now! 🗞️

Ft:

⚖️ Our call for citizens' juries to help set new rules for MPs
😮 An exciting job opportunity
⚡ Innovations in local climate assemblies
🤝 Introducing Involve
👋 Our new meet the team section!

Read it all here 👇
eu1.hubs.ly/H03YV_G0

“The end of Anglo-Saxon take-home-assignment university had arrived and we had not realized it yet” Anonymous UK uni professor whiteboard permanent marker graffiti carbon dated early 2020s m.youtube.com/watch?v=ih9PBG…

Today at 13.30 CET Luca Iandoli and I are discussing the craft of running RCT in online deliberation We are going to cover successes and failures in trying to test deliberatorium Pol.is synchronous videodeliberation events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ct-2023/

Yesterday I was invited to present the Soton Citizens’ Assembly project by the Green Network and I discovered the city farm and the great work done on social prescribing. Wonderful place and wonderful energy solinked.org.uk/green-network

Looking for alternatives to policing? So was the mayor of Medellin. In 2018, we worked with his govt to choose 80 neighborhoods. In half, the city intensified civilian staff and problem-solving 10-fold, for 2 years. The results were... unexpected.

Paper: osf.io/preprints/soca…

I adopt Caramani in my first year CP class with 200 students! Biggest long term impact ever. I might actually get some undergrad dissertation now to focus on DIs... Should we stop saying we are a niche field?

For those interested in crafting experiments on online deliberations, next Monday Luca Iandoli and I will chat about various use case scenarios and their challenges with a focus on argmapping events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ct-2023/#agenda

Join us on the 17th for a chat about the new book of Thamy: “Innovating Democracy? The Means and Ends of Citizens Participation in Latin America”

Job Opportunity! Professor in Politics and Internat'l Relations. Join our great department and its areas of strength such as democratic governance, electoral behaviour, environmental justice, migration, development. Deadline 27/4 jobs.soton.ac.uk/2241123CC

Our first project review at #EUcommission was a resounding success! Now we will focus on the pilots’ implementation, engaging #citizens in new, enriched participatory practices for a greener #Europe : phoenix-horizon.eu/pilots/

#PhoenixEUproject #EUGreenDeal

New book from Thamy, looking forward to read it. It is in open access for the next two week