📢Delighted to announce that I'm editing a new @degruyter_soc book series on 'Citizens Assemblies and Mini-Publics' ( https://t.co/BI9OW3BZUc). Please get in touch if you have a relevant proposal. I'm looking for a diversity of approaches and perspectives on these topics.

🔔 New Centre Publication (open access) Latest publication by our PhD student @WendyConwayLamb and co-authors, including Centre associates Pierrick Chalaye & @SanchezEmersonM in the new book by @OliverEscobar & @StephenElstub 🙌 🔗 https://t.co/6cAz2hNsba

🗓️ 🗞️ September newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network including events, publications, resources and jobs across the fields of participatory governance, deliberative #democracy and democratic innovation. Available here 👉 https://t.co/o2TXYbTZYG

I wrote in The i Paper today about the tragic story of Diogo Jota and his brother being brought back to their hometown today. The outpouring of grief, the shock and emotion from the entire football community is overwhelming. Haven’t heard one bad thing said about him. #LFC

New! The latest data on election quality around the world is out today from @ElectIntegrity. With low turnout and an unfair voting system, UK elections are now ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe. A new Elections Bill is needed..... https://t.co/9BQBZkvMdT

🗓️July newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network 🗞️, with a selection of webinars, projects, conferences, publications and funding from colleagues and partners working across research, policy and practice on #democracy Available here 👉🏼 https://t.co/XzhEBZhuEB

ICYMI! Does it matter if you're left or right? @KindtRosa explores left- and right-wing populist citizen support for deliberative mini-publics @RadboudPol #populism #minipublics #politics #representation https://t.co/wlrIRlKVpW

📺 Video of my inaugural lecture available 👉🏼 https://t.co/rz1PBgCmxc ⌛️ We had some laughs/brightness, as well as some heavier/darker moments, as befits a lecture about #democracy in troubled times. Thanks to everyone who made the occasion and the professorship possible 🙏🏼

Petition in solidarity with staff at #Newcastle University, who are being put through some twisted 'academic hunger games' to keep their jobs against the imminent threat of draconian compulsory redundancies. More info and petition: https://t.co/b2F1YWnp0Z

🆕 Participatory democracy and participatory research 🔄🗳️🔬 🧠 @HansAsenbaum, @Dr_Bussu, @OliverEscobar & @clharris_ucc explore the how they can inform each other offering a new research agenda. 👉 https://t.co/P35ODHIkPB #OA #ParticipatoryDemocracy #ResearchMethods

Happy to be back and share some good news. Three years in the making, The Sciences of the Democracies will be out August 1. On pre-order now with UCL Press: https://t.co/KS4SuwlroC

Congratulations to the nominees in the Engaging with Policy and Practice category at this year's Engagement and Place Awards. @StephenElstub Find out more 👇 https://t.co/K0unGOBH3m #WeAreNCL

🗓️ If you happen to be in Edinburgh next Wednesday 02/04 ✅ and you're interested in the future of #democracy ✅ and you happen to have a bit of time ✅ you're very welcome to my inaugural lecture 👨🏼‍🎓 (we will also share the recording afterwards 📽️ ) Info and free registration 👇🏼

📣 Lectureship in Political Geography at Newcastle University 📣 12 mo post externally funded through Prof Nick Megoran ISRF Fellowship. To start 1st Sept 2025. Apply here: https://t.co/j8rED4xpA7

From the Archives 📰 In democratic discussions, we often emphasize who gets to speak—but how often do we consider who listens & how they listen? Our research with UC's News & Media Research Centre: Molly Scudder X Selen Ercan X Kerry McCallum 👇 🔓 https://t.co/HWRIzhumJs

📣 Newcastle Geography has been ranked #36 in the world in the 2025 QS Rankings. This is the highest QS ranking of all subjects within our university 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

NEW BOOK ALERT 🎉 Our former PhD student Kei Nishiyama has just published his book "Children, Democracy, and Education. A Deliberative Reconsideration" Congratulations, @KeiNishiyamauc! 🥳 https://t.co/6pEkCbYNJy @UniCanberra @UCBGL

'Once you think you know how to run #deliberative processes, they will again surprise & challenge you.' DISPATCH from Belgium: The Ostbelgien Model 5⃣ years on Read now in: ✅Dutch ✅French ✅German ✅English https://t.co/DshBvYoODg

The UK government is committed to improving voter registration... In this new report funded by the JRRT, Paul Bernal and I set out how this can be done with a move to automatic/direct registration.... https://t.co/ATpkNdubq7

🗓️"Democracy as if the future mattered: Can democratic innovation change the world?" Delighted to invite you to my inaugural lecture at the University of Edinburgh this spring ☀️ Information and registration 👉 https://t.co/IgXgs6AVuf Everyone welcome! 😃

Happy to see this in print! In this @JournalPolitics article, I argue that democratic innovations can benefit from participatory, deliberative, agonistic, feminist and transformative theory. I put forward 5 lessons for democratic innovations. 🔓OA: https://t.co/KLlrNIvGUZ