About

I combine 15 years’ experience of working with NGOs with an academic approach informed by Science and Technology Studies and the idea of public sociology. My interests are interdisciplinary and impact-oriented, building on my experience beyond academia in influencing environmental, planning, transport and economic policy. I am interested in the relationships between society and environment, and in particular: - how we make public decisions about environmental change - how public participation in decision-making is facilitated or excluded - experiments in democracy and innovative governance practices that seek new ways of engaging publics in decision-making - different ways of generating and representing knowledge about environment, and what happens at the interfaces of these knowledges - how different forms of knowing and valuing are included or excluded, legitimised or silenced by decision-making processes These interest have been shaped by my earlier career. I previously worked as an independent environment & planning consultant and as a Senior Policy and Campaigns Officer for CPRE, the countryside charity. I chaired North West Environment Link, an alliance of the major environmental NGOs in North West England, and have been a member of various innovative governance structures, e.g. the North West Regional Assembly and the Lancaster Local Strategic Partnership.

Research Interests

Citizenship, Civil Society, Democracy, Environmental Policy, Governance, Green Politics, Local Government, Social Movements, Knowledge, Critical Theory, Feminism, Identity, Climate Change, Decision Making, Narratives, NGOs, Political Engagement, Power

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Democratic Innovations