📧 Our June 2025 newsletter is out in the world! 🌱 This month, we launch a public virtual roundtable discussion, recap the Iswe Foundation x Participedia April workshop, share an upcoming keynote address, and much more. Click the 🔗 to give it a read! ⬇️ mailchi.mp/participedia/j…

👀 Rhetoric 2 Reality: a new summer webinar series from Social Enterprise Scotland 🔆 Many urgent topics covered in 1-hour webinars, worth checking and signing up, everyone welcome 👉🏼 socialenterprise.scot/rhetoric-2-rea…

"I think the Community Wealth Building Bill is going to rekindle the community empowerment agenda, which has been a mixed bag in the last 10 years, with some achievements but a lot of broken promises." Citizen Participation - [email protected], University of Edinburgh ⏪ Catch up: ow.ly/YtHb50W4ZfJ

INSPIRE Democracy held a policy roundtable on June 2nd! Creative methods, diverse perspectives. More updates coming soon!

Busy picket lines across the university today. UCU Edinburgh striking to save jobs and #StopTheCuts

In this months blog post, Professor Ann Phoenix explores how EDI(I) is key to understanding real world behaviour & driving meaningful change. Read more about why EDII isn't just a buzzword in behavioural research below: usher.ed.ac.uk/behavioural-re…

✨ For our third #NIHM highlight, we are very excited to introduce Participedia’s Indigenous Rights Research Cluster! 👋 Please join us in saying a big hello to the 11 members and associates, and check out the images below to learn a bit more about them, and the work they do. ☺️

✨📢CDAS Bulletin- out today !! 📢✨ 📢Registration now OPEN!! for our Annual National Conference, 24th September, Dundee 💥Amazing line up of keynote speakers, participative panels & stalls CommunityEmpowerment 📢Register today to get involved!! 🔻⏬🔻⏬🔻⏬🔻 mailchi.mp/d8d07c37dab2/c…

🗓️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 👉🏼 jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jis…

Staging Change Through Legislative Theatre: Join our webinar to hear how the INSPIRE team applied this innovative approach to understand youth's lived experience in employment. Gain insights into the process and get inspired. Register now --> bit.ly/3G4U9aY

Our new blog by Julze Alejandre @julzealejandre.bsky.social Niamh Hart Citizen Participation - [email protected], Ann Phoenix, & Steve Reicher, explores how #PublicEngagement can turn token gestures into real dialogue. Let’s have a proper chat, shall we? 👥💬 usher.ed.ac.uk/behavioural-re…

🤔 What's the point of democratic innovation? Can it address crurrent crises and build democracies for the future? 💡In this new article Adrian Bua and I argue that the field needs to strengthen its change-making orientation and capacity. Open access 👉🏼 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

❗ CLOSING THIS WEEK – Reminder that applications for this Research Fellow position based at University of Edinburgh closes this Tuesday!

Want more inclusive policymaking? Our new brief shows how using an intersectional lens can lead to more equitable and effective policies. Download & share: bit.ly/4m5Pt3E

There is no war in Gaza. It is an attempt to erase the Palestinian people from existence. It is a genocide. Starvation. Massacring civilians as they queue for food. Bombing hospitals, homes, and refugee camps. The international community must stop enabling this genocide, and

☀️ Vol 17:3 Bridging the gap between #ParticipatoryDemocracy & #ParticipatoryResearch, the authors (🧵⬇️) ask what they can learn from each other, offering a critical reflection on how shared commitments of both fields can be realised. 🤔 buff.ly/x6j9C47 #OpenAccess

📌 Next week is the European Consortium for Political Research Annual Conference at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki European Consortium for Political Research . We have a bunch of new projects and publications to present on #democracy #DemocraticInnovation. Here are some sessions where we can meet / discuss 👇