I am an interdisciplinary researcher specialising in democratic innovations, responsible design, and the social studies of technology, with a general interest in the relationship between democracy and technology.
My work includes large-scale participatory processes, such as Chile’s recent constitutional reforms and the Global Citizens’ Assembly for People and Planet. I have taught courses on responsible innovation, culture-centred innovation, and the social impact of technology.
This article provides a narrative review on the concept of dialogue within STS and Deliberative Democracy academic literature.
In 2024 I worked with the Scottish Parliament to help shape and evaluate its People’s Panels; an innovative democratic mechanism designed to bring diverse publi...
In 2025, I contributed to the evaluation for the Dunfermline New City Assembly; an ambitious initiative that aims to redefine what local democracy can look like...
This talk explores the intersection of deliberative democracy and civic technology, tracing the origins and foundational concepts of the civic tech landscape. I...
For years, we’ve been told a simple story about how experts relate to society: first came the deficit model, where the public was seen as simply lacking knowled...
What does it mean to put people at the heart of global climate governance? This week at the UN Climate Week in Panama City, we shared how the Global Mutirão - ...
Can literature reviews be both interpretive and systematic? I say YES! Systematicity need not be the exclusive domain of positivist methods, producing very dull...
Technologies to support citizen deliberation and participation form a growing market. This work has been commissioned to support the development of new technolo...
As part of my work with the Global Citizens’ Assembly (GCA), I’ve led the design and implementation of a democratic data infrastructure that connects citizen de...
Calls for democratising technology are pervasive in current technological discourse. Indeed, participating publics have been mobilised as a core normative aspir...