Prof Nicole Curato PhD

Nicole Curato

School of Government
Professor of Democratic Governance

Contact details

Address
School of Government
Room 527 Muirhead Tower
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Nicole Curato’s research demonstrates the transformative power of deliberative governance in fragile and conflict-affected settings. She welcomes collaborations with academics, practitioners, policymakers, and grassroots movements committed to advancing inclusive citizen engagement and grounding deliberative democratic ideals in diverse local contexts.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Political Sociology, University of Birmingham (2011)
  • MA in Sociology with Distinction, University of Manchester (2007)
  • BA in Sociology (cum laude), University of the Philippines-Diliman (2004)

Postgraduate supervision

Deliberative democracy, democratic innovations, democratisation, global sociology

Doctoral research

PhD title
  • PhD in Political Sociology, University of Birmingham (2011)

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Ercan, SA, Asenbaum, H, Curato, N & Mendonça, RF (eds) 2022, Research methods in deliberative democracy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192848925.001.0001

Article

Curato, N & Calamba, S 2024, 'Deliberative forums in fragile contexts: Challenges from the field', Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957241259090

Curato, N, Sass, J, Ercan, SA & Niemeyer, S 2022, 'Deliberative democracy in the age of serial crisis', International Political Science Review, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512120941882

Curato, N 2022, 'Philippine Elections 2022: The New Normative Order', Contemporary Southeast Asia, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 375-381. <https://www.jstor.org/stable/27193034>

Curato, N 2021, 'Asserting disadvantaged communities’ deliberative agency in a media-saturated society', Theory and Society, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 657-677. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-020-09421-1

Curato, N & Yee, DK 2021, 'Beyond victims, criminals and survivors: Performing political agency after the world’s strongest storm', Journal of Sociology, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 1009-1025. https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783321991661

Curato, N 2021, 'Interruptive protests in dysfunctional deliberative systems', Politics, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 388-403. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395720960297

Chapter

Yee, DKP & Curato, N 2024, Populism in Southeast Asia. in Y Stavrakakis & G Katsambekis (eds), Research Handbook on Populism. Research Handbooks in Political Thought, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 433-443. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800379695.00050

Rountree, J & Curato, N 2023, 6 Citizens' assemblies and the public sphere. in M Reuchamps, J Vrydagh & Y Welp (eds), De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens' Assemblies. De Gruyter, pp. 73-84. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110758269-008

Curato, N & Doerr, N 2022, Ethnography. in SA Ercan, H Asenbaum, N Curato & RF Mendonça (eds), Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy. Oxford University Press, pp. 265-277. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192848925.003.0018

Ercan, SA, Asenbaum, H, Curato, N & Mendonça, RF 2022, Researching deliberative democracy: Methods and approaches. in SA Ercan, H Asenbaum, N Curato & RF Mendonça (eds), Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy. Oxford University Press, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192848925.003.0001

Presto, AC & Curato, N 2021, Amplifying the deliberative agency of indigenous communities in Philippine News Media. in SL Borden (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty. 1 edn, Taylor & Francis, pp. 391-400. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429291333-43

Curato, N & Yonaha, YY 2021, Rodrigo Duterte: Macho populism and authoritarian practice (born 1945). in K Larres (ed.), Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power across Global Politics. 1 edn, Taylor and Francis, pp. 384-398. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003100508-26

Comment/debate

Nicol, D, Dryzek, JS, Niemeyer, S, Curato, N & Paxton, R 2023, 'The Australian Citizens’ Jury and Global Citizens’ Assembly on Genome Editing', American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 61-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2207532

Review article

Willis, R, Curato, N & Smith, G 2022, 'Deliberative democracy and the climate crisis', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 13, no. 2, e759. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.759

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