Mini-public video series #1 | Brendan Spillane on #disinformation!

During the #minipublics, we showed videos of 4 scientists sharing knowledge on the main themes.

Brendan, PI at the VIGILANT project, says disinformation is there to raise tensions in society.

Watch the full video here: https://shorturl.at/kyzIL

Read more about the mini-publics here: https://regroup-horizon.eu/publications/minipublic/

#pandemicpolitics #regroup #citizensjuries #deliberativedemocracy

@BenLeruth
@politicalscience
@sociology

Across the (developed) world, #citizensjuries have become more common in the last decades.

Having sat (recently) on a trial jury himself, Martin Wolf (FT) is now a convert, arguing that many contentious #political issues wold benefits from the input of a citizen jury.

Certainly, they would start to balance the over-representation of the interests of the wealthy in today's political systems (not least the UK).

They'd be a good for our #democracy but the Q. is who would champion them today?

🥳 Congratulations to
Katie Hirono who passed her PhD viva on Friday with no corrections 🎉

The thesis was examined by Prof. John Boswell (University of Southampton) & Prof Sarah Cunnigham-Burley (University of Edinburgh), and supervised by Dr Ellen Stewart (University of Strathclyde) and I.

All pictured below celebrating in Edinburgh 😀

#demopart
#participation
#health
#equity
#CitizensJuries
#HealthImpactAssessments