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Publics and Power

About

  • Improve understanding of the interface between diverse publics and power holders in political and public service contexts across the Global South and North.
  • Address power inequalities in governance to advance socially just and sustainable societies.
  • Evaluate the impacts of different governance models and interventions on citizen-state relationships.
  • Advancing participatory and innovative approaches to understanding and improving the public-power interface.

Activities and outputs

  • Dr Koen P.R. Bartels

    Departmental Director of Research

    Dr Bartels is a leading international scholar in public encounters, social innovation, action research, and interpretive policy analysis.

  • Dr Sonia Bussu

    Associate Professor in Public Policy

    Sonia studies and teaches public policy. Her main research interests are participatory governance and democratic innovations, and creative and arts-based methods for research and public engagement.

  • Professor Nicole Curato

    Professor of Democratic Governance

    Nicole Curato's research demonstrates the transformative power of deliberative governance in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

  • Dr Abena Frimpoma Dadze-Arthur

    Assistant Professor

    Abena's research and teaching focus is on decolonizing and transforming approaches to public management and governance.

  • Dr Stephen Jeffares

    Associate Professor

    Dr Jeffares is interested in research that draw on social media data to understand change or controversies in public policy.

  • Dr Ting Luo

    Associate Professor in Government and Artificial Intelligence

    Dr Ting Luo's research focuses on the intersection of technology and governance, with a particular emphasis on digital governance and AI governance.