Rikki Dean
Associate Professor in Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Futures at Southampton University.
Visiting Professor at Democratic Innovations Research Unit, Frankfurt University.
https://rikkidean.com/
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Democratic Innovations
A list of people working on participatory and deliberative politics and policymaking. Let me know if I missed you.
@uniessexgov.bsky.social
Ranked 2nd in the UK for Research Outputs (REF 2021), 12th for International Relations, and 21st for Politics (Guardian University Guide 2025).
@polethnography.bsky.social
University of Southampton Centre for Political Ethnography
@nets4dem.eu
We are a network of networks, committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation.
@bschlipphak.bsky.social
Prof Research Methods | PolSci Uni Muenster | enjoys sound & transparent empirical research in #polpsych, #polcomm, #polsoc, & IR
@drmkuisma.bsky.social
Political scientist, Program Lead and Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Tübingen. Welfare states and social citizenship || ideas and institutions || populism || social democracy || Nordic / British / European politics || Baggies
@nataliatrujillo.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of Southampton, researching risks, crises, and migration.
@katelong.bsky.social
PhD researcher at @UniofYork | Looking at the politics of climate democratic innovations
@sameen-mohsin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham. Research bureaucratic politics, political elites, and governance in Pakistan. Views my own. Formerly LUMS, SOAS, LSE. https://www.sameenmohsinali.com/ Enthusiastic about 🏊🏽♀️🧶📚art, pop culture, travel
@dannicafleuss.bsky.social
V/Prof @Uni Nairobi | Senior Lecturer @Uni Heidelberg & HSU Hamburg | Associate @Centre for Deliberative Democracy, Canberra | Convener @PSADemocracy | President DemocracyNet *political theory, participation, (post-)colonialism, punk, running & climbing*
@damienbol.bsky.social
Prof in Political Behavior in Sciences Po Paris. Ex boom-bap rapper, I wear white kicks ALL THE TIME www.damienbol.eu
@jydenham.bsky.social
Director, Centre for English Identity and Politics, Southampton. Former Labour Minister, Interested in England's governance, devolution, identities and relationship with its unions.
@nasarmeer.bsky.social
Professor in SPS, Glasgow University. PI @GLIMER_Research. co-Editor @IDjnl. Academic Committee Chair @StuartHallFdn. FBA FRSE FAcSS. Writing in personal capacity.
@ortiztudela.bsky.social
Ramón y Cajal researcher at the CIMCYC (Universidad de Granada, Spain). Currently migrating personal site to: https://ortiztudela.github.io/ortiztudela/
@denisivanov.bsky.social
Assistant Lecturer at Corvinus University of Budapest. Research fellow at Vilnius University. Quantitative political economy: socio-economic inequality, transition and populism: Eastern Europe and beyond 🇲🇩
@conradziller.bsky.social
Political scientist @ University of Duisburg-Essen https://conradziller.com/
@robfordmancs.bsky.social
Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Author of "Brexitland" and "The British General Election of 2019" My Substack, "The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/ https://www.robertford.net/
@breznaunate.bsky.social
Social science. Policy. Open science. Inequality. Meta science. Education. https://sites.google.com/site/nbreznau/ https://crowdid.hypotheses.org @diebonn.bsky.social
@katesummers.bsky.social
Qualitative social policy researcher working on social security policy and economic inequality. British Academy postdoc @ London School of Economics Methodology.
@dpart.bsky.social
Think Tank für politische Partizipation | Think Tank for political participation https://dpart.org/
@anthonyjwells.bsky.social
Head of European Political & Social Research at YouGov. Dartfordian. Hates agree-disagree statements.
@nvondarza.bsky.social
Political scientist with a passion for EU affairs, Geek with a passion for technology. Head of Europe Division at @SWP-Berlin.org. Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.bsky.social Europe Programme. All views are personal. Journey before Destination.
@mrooduijn.bsky.social
Political scientist | University of Amsterdam | Hot Politics Lab | The PopuList | Stuk Rood Vlees | Parties, voters, populism, far left and right, polarization, emotions, liberal democracy
@alexanderhorn.bsky.social
Head of Noether Group "Varieties of Egalitarianism" @Uni Konstanz | Interim prof @HU Berlin for Comparative Analysis of Political Systems | inequality, parties, policy change, welfare state, ideology, political text | https://voe-project.org
@anamkuraishi.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Antwerp @m2p-antwerp.bsky.social | Political Communication, Political Behaviour, Experiments, South Asian Politics
@max-web.bsky.social
NLProc and Social Stratification https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/115948107/Maximilian_Weber
@kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Political Science at Aarhus University studying immigrant integration, nationalism, and moralization. From Jan-May 2025 guest prof at ETH Zurich. https://sites.google.com/view/kristinabsimonsen/
@uosmedia.bsky.social
Updates from the University of Southampton media team | @unisouthampton.bsky.social | Email us at press@soton.ac.uk
@emrekizilkaya.bsky.social
Ph.D. Researcher & Editor | Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights | Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow | IVLP Alumnus | IBM Certified AI Developer | https://www.linkedin.com/in/emre-kizilkaya #Media #Humanities #AI #Ethics #News
@olivemendoza.bsky.social
Filipina PhD student studying emotions & deliberation from a feminist and deliberative democratic lens.
@szilvia-nagy.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Public Policy at Central European University @CEU • Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ Goethe University Frankfurt
@vladmarginas.bsky.social
Historian, political scientist, and European affairs generalist. PoliSci Marie Curie GEM-DIAMOND Fellow at Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai (FSE) & Université libre de Bruxelles (CEVIPOL-IEE). https://gem-diamond.eu/people/fellows/vlad-marginas
@joostvanspanje.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, RH University of London elections | new parties | cordons sanitaires | hate speech | militant democracy | political communication Bitcoin and politics, media & public opinion ERC Consolidator Grant | NWO Veni & Vidi
@markuskollberg.bsky.social
Political Scientist | Comparative Political Behaviour, Political Parties, Empirical Democracy Research | Experiments, Surveys, Text-as-Data www.markus-kollberg.net
@marianaborges.bsky.social
@fionamaybuckley.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Department of Government & Politics, University College Cork. Researching and teaching about #womeninpolitics and #irishpolitics https://publish.ucc.ie/researchprofiles/B007/fbuckley
@jeffkopstein.bsky.social
Historian, social scientist, low talent fitness fanatic. Dean's Professor of Political Science. UCI Recent book: *The Assault on the State* https://www.amazon.com/Assault-State-Global-Government-Endangers/dp/1509563156/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.U0B_8
@suffrago.org
Groundbreaking political tech platform using AI, data science & polling—650 UK constituencies, real-time insights. For MPs, journalists & voters. Neutral. 📊 suffrago.org
@drdaveobrien.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Manchester and host of New Books in Critical Theory. Currently on secondment to DCMS, also at Creative PEC and the Whats On Project too
@marithammond.bsky.social
@judithcdejong.bsky.social
PhD Candidate Political Science & Senior lecturer, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam. Research on political representation from citizens' point of view, racism, intersectionality.
@stevenklein.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Theory, King's College London. Writing a global history and philosophy of unions (Allen Lane/Oxford) and PI for DERISK https://www.derisk.org.uk/
@psapdd.bsky.social
We are the Participatory & Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social) Web: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/participatory-and-deliberative-democracy
@deldemucan.bsky.social
Leading research centre specialising in deliberative governance & democratic innovations at the University of Canberra.
@edelweiss20.bsky.social
Systems thinker & Prof. of political science at John Abbott College. Raising awareness about energy & material blindness / Il n’y aura pas de futur sans décroissance. Auteur de Bombs, Bullets & Politicians at MQUP.
@harryannison.bsky.social
Professor of Criminal Justice at Southampton Law School, UK. Penal politics, parole and probation.
@schultzlarsen.bsky.social
Nosy interdisciplinary social scientist cum sociologist, based at Roskilde University. Developing neo-Bourdieusian State theory and critical urban analysis. Questioning all forms of domination, stigmatization, discrimination and exploitation.
@dimitricourant.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at @harvard.edu | PhD. in political science Focus: Citizens' Assembly, Democracy, Deliberation, Sortition President of @di-apsa.bsky.social # https://ash.harvard.edu/people/dimitri-courant/