New job ad: we're looking for a social researcher to be part of new StrathHealthPolicy Fraser of Allander Institute unit funded by The Health Foundation Would suit someone who enjoys qual research, policy analysis (interviews & doc analysis), KE & working in cross-disciplinary teams strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/32…

Only 3 weeks until our next webinar! Have you registered yet?
Using behavioural theory to inform quantitative models for policy decision making
📅: 24th May 2024
🕚: 11am BST
📍: Zoom
Further information and sign-up:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

☕Café INSPIRE: Buenas prácticas y estrategias para la participación digital inclusiva

🗓️7 de mayo
⏰15:30h
🌊 Bcn

➡️INSPIRE reúne a investigadores y profesionales para el empoderamiento de comunidades vulnerables en toma de decisiones
cop-demos.jrc.ec.europa.eu/blog/inspire-n…

✉️¡Reserva por DM

I'm hiring a Research Fellow to join the INSPIRE project.
Check info on the project and role here👇 Closing date: 21st May 2024
linkedin.com/jobs/view/3913…

Great discussion and turnout at Michael Albert's book launch yesterday! Rush to buy this excellent cartography of the space of political possibility in times of polycrisis: mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/978026254… P&IR Edinburgh CRITIQUE (critiquecentre.bsky.social) Edinburgh Futures Institute EEHN School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh

We are particularly interested in input from ANYONE who uses/draws on #behaviouralresearch - even if it isn't formally in your job title/description. We also want to hear from #students and #postdocs . Please share and repost widely to help us gather a broad range of responses!

Why are disruptive protests good for democracy?

Some answers from democratic theorists:
1) Nicole Curato: they can redistribute voice and visibility, attention, and agency which, in turn, can lay bare the weaknesses of dysfunctional deliberative systems.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

The UNDP Human Development Report is out now and includes a section on deliberative assemblies. Pleased to see a nuanced discussion of the power and limits of deliberative mini-publics, reflecting the ethos of our team's collaboration with the UNDP.

hdr.undp.org/content/human-…

New book by Anna Krämling! Goes beyond over-simplified debates on whether direct democracy is bad for minorities by examining all popular votes in Europe (!!!) and showing we have to ask, which oppressed groups and which types of popular vote.

Ante momentos de inestabilidad, polarización o desconfianza hacia la política, necesitamos espacios de deliberación que contribuyan a la #RegeneraciónDemocrática .

💭Para reflexionar sobre esto en profundidad, no te pierdas el vídeo completo: youtube.com/watch?v=QX9TBO…

👉Hoy estrenamos canal de Youtube:
youtube.com/@Deliberativa
Comenzaremos repasando algunas de las claves que nos dio Citizen Participation - [email protected] en el Webinar sobre la Convención Ciudadana sobre Vivienda #ConvencionVivienda .

Aquí un resumen⬇️

New The Michael Marmot Institute of Health Equity UCL analysis confirms since 2010 central government spending cuts to local authorities were highest in areas with lower life expectancy and more health inequalities, further harming health in these places @MichaeMarmot @UCL bit.ly/LEGAP

Big Question 4⃣ in our 🔟part anniversary series

Does deliberative democracy stand in neoliberal times?

Featuring John Dryzek - author of Democracy in Capitalist Times - in conversation with Citizen Participation - [email protected].

14 May (Tue)
9 am - Edinburgh
6 pm - Canberra

deldem.ticketleap.com/does-deliberat…

Lecturer, Computational Sociology:

To support the MSc in Digital Sociology. Please RT and apply:

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHB929/lec…

Academia can no longer ignore its systemic inter-generational inequality
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Politicians Reflect

As we mark 25 years of the Scottish Parliament, former FM Nicola Sturgeon MSP and former MP, MSP and Deputy FM Lord Wallace will discuss their experience of devolution.

Thur 16 May
6:30pm - 7:30pm
St Cecilia's Hall

Register: bit.ly/Politicians-Re…

🔖If you missed the launch of World Health Organization (WHO)'s new resources on citizen engagement in evidence-informed policy-making, there is a short summary here, including a recording of the webinar 📺 #minipublics #delibwave 👇🏽 who.int/news/item/10-0…

Ayer y hoy la #ConvenciónCiudadana sobre el final de vida se ha juntado en #Paris por última vez para una rendición de cuentas del Gobierno y Parlamento francés y aprendizajes compartidos por investigadores. El apasionante hilo de Hélène Landemore da todos los detalles sobre el evento.

🗞️The latest bulletin from the Citizen Participation Network is now available #demopart #delibwave 🤓 It includes events, publications and a scholarship for folk interested in participatory and deliberative #democracy , and the #commons . Available here 👉🏽 jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jis…

25 Years of Devolution: Conference

Join us and P&IR Edinburgh Ed Con Law Centre as we bring together leading academics and practitioners to reflect on 25 years of the Scottish Parliament.

17 May
08:30 - 13:00
MacLaren Stuart Room, Old College

Book at: bit.ly/Devolution-Con…