UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA

Aníbal Monasterio research lies at the intersection of the cognitive, biological and social sciences exploring their philosophical underpinnings. He is a member of international (and national) research projects. He explores topics such as roboethics, machine ethics, ethics of AI, data ethics, ethics of neurotechnology, human enhancement, space ethics, applied ethics, bioethics, philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of psychiatry, altruism, cooperation or philosophy of network science and complexity. Dr Monasterio is collaborating with the Rebooting team on a project related to ethics, governance and regulation of the emergent technology of bio-hybrid robots.

You can find more about Anibal’s work here: https://anibal-monasterio-astobiza.netlify.app/

SENIOR LECTURER IN ECONOMICS, SWANSEA UNIVERSITY

Annie is a cultural and regional economist. She studies the effect of cultural bias in economic choice. She has pioneered the Culture Based Development (CBD) paradigm in the field of New Cultural Economics. She is working with the Rebooting Democracy team on experiments in gender, culture, and participation.

You can find more about Annie here: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/a.k.tubadji/

PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC POLICY, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

Catherine is an expert on urban governance and public policy, and has written widely on policy design and implementation, devolution, urban transformation, social and democratic innovation, and participation. She is currently leading a collaboration with the Rebooting Democracy team in research on the governance of the commons.

You can find more about Catherine here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/heseltine-institute/about/team/catherinedurose/

LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Edson joined University of Southampton in 2014 as a Research Fellow in Statistics and has previously worked on a project that developed a novel methodology for determining the representativeness of health and demographic surveillance networks. His research is currently focussed on developing spatial statistical methods for assessing the coverage of measles vaccination in low- and middle-income settings. Edson is a collaborator of the Rebooting team from the Worldpop project.

You can find more about Edson’s work here: https://www.worldpop.org/team/chigozie_edson_utazi/

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN

Daniele’s research focuses on the relevance of spatial proximity through empirical analyses and the application of advanced quantitative methodologies, particularly in the fields of regional and urban economics, economic and political geography. More specifically, his research interests include topics in the area of regional economics, economic and political geography, social and spatial inequalities (and digital divides), as well as formal and informal institutions, with a particular interest on spatial spillovers. He is working with the Rebooting team on direct legislation.

You can find more about Daniele’s work here: https://www.rug.nl/staff/d.mantegazzi/?lang=en

LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

Jessica studies the sources and consequences of bias in our political systems, from what voters think to how our institutions operate. Her work centres on centres on gender, electoral politics, representation, and political leadership with a focus on British politics. She is working with the Rebooting Democracy team on gender and deliberation research.

You can find more about Jess here: https://drjessicacsmith.wordpress.com/

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Lala’s research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics, political psychology, and behavior. She is also interested in experimental methodology, and comparative authoritarianism. She is currently collaborating with the Rebooting Democracy team in Open Science research.

You can find more about Lala here: https://soc.kuleuven.be/centre-for-political-research/Personeel/00114841

PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION , UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

Liz’s research interests include participatory urban governance; local politics and local government; public services; and public policy. She has an interest in methodological innovation including participatory research approaches, and experimental methods. She is currently collaborating with the Rebooting Democracy team in research on the governance of the commons.

You can find more about Liz here: http://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/liz.richardson

PhD CANDIDATE, UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN

Ramon’s research interests include deliberative democracy, democratic innovation, and green political thought. He collaborated with the Rebooting Democracy team on the EPCR’s Press book on The Impacts of Democratic Innovations.

You can find more about Ramon here: https://www.peoplepowered.org/staff-and-boards/ramon-van-der-does

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Stuart’s research lays at the intersection of political sociology, behavioural science, party politics, and electoral campaigning. He is collaborating in experiments in democratic design with the Rebooting Democracy team.

You can find more about Stuart here: https://turnbulldugarte.com/

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Taher is an Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor at the University of Illinois. Professor Saif's research focuses on the mechanics of nanoscale materials and living cells. He uses both theory and experiment to explore (1) the effect of size on the mechanics of materials, and (2) the role of mechanical force in determining the functionality of cells and cell clusters. Professor Saif is collaborating with the Rebooting team on a project related to ethics, governance and regulation of the emergent technology of bio-hybrid robots.

You can find more about Taher’s work here: https://mechse.illinois.edu/people/profile/saif

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

Victoria Webster-Wood established the CMU Biohybrid and Organic Robotics Group (B.O.R.G) when joining Carnegie Mellon University. The B.O.R.G.’s research focuses on the use of organic materials as structures, actuators, sensors, and controllers toward the development of biohybrid and organic robots and biohybrid prosthetics. Dr Webster-Wood is collaborating with the Rebooting team on a project related to ethics, governance and regulation of the emergent technology of bio-hybrid robots.

You can find more of Victoria’s work here: https://www.meche.engineering.cmu.edu/directory/bios/webster-wood-victoria.html

UNIVERSITE DE NAMUR

Vincent is interested in researching on participatory and deliberative democracy, political participation, and local politics. His PhD thesis investigated citizens’ refusal to take part in deliberative mini-public and criminal juries. He collaborated with the Rebooting Democracy team on the EPCR Press book on The Impacts of Democratic Innovations.

You can find more about Vincent here: https://researchportal.unamur.be/en/persons/vincent-jacquet

ASSOSIATE PROFESSOR, WINCHESTER SCHOOL OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Valentina’s teaching and research expertise are located within the broader field of political communication, journalism and gender politics. She has published her research on topics such as celebrity politics, e-government, gender and politics and popular culture and citizenship.

Valentina’s research and teaching branch across three interconnected strands: questions of power, identity and difference; the changing relationship between the media and modes of political and civic agency; and the impact of digital technologies on traditional communication strategies.

SENIOR LECTURER IN INTERACTION DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Vanissa’s research interests focus in different areas, such as Games for change, social good and wellbeing, Games Design, Gamification and player experience, and Human behaviour and Interface Design (e.g. rituals, gestures, mental models, values). Currently she works in different projects related to Participatory design and co-design methodologies, Data-driven design (e.g., data visualisation, sensors, wearables), Participatory design games for citizen agency and decision-making, Player agency and creativity, and Immersive technologies and experience design.

SCHOOL OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF SUTHAMPTON

Gyanendro’s research looks into Sentiment Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Social Media Text Analysis, among others. Hw received the M.Tech. degree in computer science and engineering from IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India in 2017, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati, in 2021. He currently works at the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton.

PROFESSOR IN PSYCHOLOGY & BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Mary has a joint appointment in the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton. Mary runs a programme of work in both the UK and in low-income countries aiming to engage young people in improving their sense of agency, well-being and mental health, to benefit their health in general but their diets and physical activity habits more specifically. Her team’s approach is participatory and combines social activism focused on engaging young people in the climate change and health agenda and testing methods of one-to-one support and digital resources including smartphone games. Much of this work takes place as part of her NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research EACH-B (Engaging Adolescents in Changing Behaviour). She partners in this activity with the TALENT network of colleagues with interests in adolescent health and well-being based in institutions in low-and-middle-income countries. She is adjunct professor at the University of Agder, Norway, and has honorary appointments at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and University College London.

LECTURER IN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Dan’s research is in the broad fields of public opinion, political behaviour, and political psychology. He is particularly interested in how people develop attitudes towards their political systems - such as democratic attitudes, political trust, democratic satisfaction - and the consequences these attitudes have for policy preferences and political behaviour. He has previously worked on issues of European integration and globalisation, where he still does some work. Additionally, he works and has worked with a variety of non-academic organisations such as the Institute for Government and Open Society European Policy Institute.

PROFESSOR IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

John’s interests centre around contemporary issues and themes in democratic governance and public policy. His research is generally qualitative and interpretive in nature. He has a particular interest in deliberative democracy in theory and practice; bureaucratic encounters and policy feedback; democratic innovation and citizen engagement in the policy process; policy learning and the role of expertise in democratic politics; court politics in executive government; the politics of public health policy and social policy; and interpretive and qualitative research methods in the social sciences.

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER, DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL THEORY AND EMPIRICAL DEMOCRACY, UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART

Franziska Maier is a postdoctoral researcher working on the future of democracy at the University of Stuttgart. Her interests are in citizenship, identity, European democracy and cosmopolitanism. She is interested in quantitative methods, mixed methods and using deliberation as a method.

SENIOR PUBLIC SECTOR SPECIALIST, WORLD BANK

Tiago is a political scientist and a Senior Public Sector Specialist at the World Bank. Since 2010 and visiting professor at the University of Southampton from 2024. Tiago has been working with governments to develop digital solutions for better public policies and services. Prior to joining the World Bank, he managed projects and consulted for a number of organizations such as the European Commission, OECD and United Nations. He has been honoured as one of the 20 Most Innovative People in Democracy, and as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government. Tiago’s work has featured in both mainstream and specialized media, including various distinguished academic journals. Tiago holds a PhD and a Masters in Political Science from the European University Institute, as well as a Masters in Organized Collective Action from Sciences-Po Paris.