PRESENTATIONS

Embedding Participatory Governance. Roundtable with Sonia Bussu, Catherine Durose and Carla Bezerra. PSA Annual Conference, Liverpool, 6 April 2023.

Integrating Citizen Deliberation into Climate Governance. Aarauer Demokratietage, University of Zurich, Aarau, 30 March 2023.

Democratic Resilience through Public Administration. Facets of Resilience Conference, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 21 November 2022.

Deliberative Systems – 10 years on. Roundtable with Azucena Moran, John Parkinson Brigitte Geissel, Julien Vrydagh. ECPR Annual Conference, Innsbruck, 24 August 2022.

A Theory of Contingency in Political Process Preferences. CEVIPOL, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 26 January 2022.

Mending Democracy – Democratic Repair in Disconnected Times: Authors Meet Critics Roundtable. With Carolyn Hendriks, Selen Ercan, John Boswell (authors) and Michael Saward. PSA Annual Conference 2021.

Can Democracy Save the Future? Book Launch with Graham Smith (author) and Amanda Machin, 5 March 2021. See right for recording

Participation and Decision-Making, LaDoc Film Festival, Cologne, Germany, 30 November 2018.

From Input to Influence: How Can the Participation of People in Poverty Shape Research and Decision-Making, CASE, London School of Economics, 16 November 2018. See right for recording

‘Artificial Intelligence and Democracy’
NextEra, London, 29 March 2017.

Dean R.J., Boswell, J. and G. Smith. ‘Integrating Citizen Deliberation into Climate Governance: Lessons from Six Climate Assemblies’ PSA Annual Conference, Liverpool, 4 April 2023

Dean R.J., Boswell, J. and G. Smith. ‘Integrating Citizen Deliberation into Climate Governance’ APSA Annual Conference, Montreal, 18 September 2022

Dean R.J. ‘From an Ideological to a Contingent Conceptualisation of Political Process Preferences: A Multidimensional Approach’ ECPR Annual Conference, Innsbruck, 24 August 2022. Download conference paper as pdf

Dean R.J., Bussu, S. & A. Bua. ‘Defining and Assessing Participatory Systems’ ECPR Annual Conference, Innsbruck, 24 August 2022

Dean R.J. ‘Deliberating Like a State’ APSA Annual Conference, Seattle, October 2021.

Dean R.J. ‘Deliberating Like a State’, Public Administration Theory Network Conference, 3 June 2021.

Dean R.J. ‘Citizen Participation in Digital-Era Governance’, Data Justice Conference, 20 May 2021.

Dean R.J. ‘Analyst or Activist? The Role of Academics in Advocating, Evaluating and Legitimating Democratic Innovations’, ECPR Joint Sessions, 25-28 May 2021.

Dean R.J. ‘Deliberating Like a State’ PSA Annual Conference, 31 March 2021.

Bussu, S., Bua, and Dean, R.J., ‘Participatory Systems: A Research Agenda’, PSA Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 8 April 2020.* 

Dean, R.J., Rinne, J.R. and Geissel, B., ‘Systematizing Democratic Systems Approaches: Seven Conceptual Building Blocks’, ECPR Conference 2019, University of Wroclaw, 5 September 2019.

Dean, R.J., ‘Citizen Participation in Digital Governance’, ECPR Conference 2019, University of Wroclaw, 4 September 2019.

Dean R.J. and B. Geissel, ‘Defining Democracy: From a Problem-Based to a Modular Approach’, DVPW Kongress, Frankfurt, 25 September 2018.

Dean, R.J., Boswell, J.C. and Smith, G. ‘Designing a Deliberative System in the Real World: The Ambitious Case of NHS Citizen’, PSA Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group Conference, London, 7 September 2018.

Dean R.J. and B. Geissel, ‘Defining Democracy: From a Problem-Based to a Modular Approach’, PSA Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group Conference, London, 5 September 2018.

Dean R.J. and B. Geissel, ‘Defining Democracy: From a Problem-Based to a Modular Approach’, European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) Annual Conference, Hamburg, 24 August 2018.

Dean, R.J., Boswell, J.C. and Smith, G. ‘Designing a Deliberative System in the Real World: The Ambitious Case of NHS Citizen’, European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions Workshop, Nicosia, 12 April 2018.

Dean, R.J., ‘Counter-Governance: Citizen Participation beyond Collaboration’, Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference, Cardiff, 27 March 2018.

Dean, R.J., ‘Democratic Innovation in Social Policy’, Social Policy Association Annual Conference, Durham, 11 July 2017.

Dean R.J. and M.W. Wallace, ‘The Remarkable Decline in Adolescent Social Exclusion’, Social Policy Association Conference, Durham, 12 July 2017.

Dean, R.J., ‘Cognition or Discourse? What is a Procedural Preference?’ European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, Prague, 12 September, 2016.

Dean, R.J., ‘A (non-Deliberative) Systems Approach to Participation in Public Administration’, European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, Prague, 8 September, 2016.

Dean, R.J., ‘Understanding Participation: A Q Method Study of Views of Public Participation in UK Social Policy’, Policy & Politics Annual Conference, Bristol, 16 September, 2015.

Dean, R.J., ‘Understanding Participation: A Q Method Study of Views of Public Participation in UK Social Policy’, European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, Montreal, 29 August, 2015.

Dean, R.J., ‘Understanding Participation: A Q Method Study of Views of Public Participation in UK Social Policy’, Social Policy Association (SPA) Annual Conference, Belfast, 7 July 2015.

Dean, R.J., ‘Beyond Radicalism and Resignation: The Competing Logics of Public Participation in Policy Decisions’, European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions Workshop, Salamanca, 13 April 2014.

Dean, R.J., ‘Beyond Radicalism and Resignation: The Competing Logics of Public Participation in Policy Decisions’, Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference, Manchester, 16 April 2014.

Covenor of the Democratic Innovations Section of the ECPR Annual Conference 2020 (16 panels, 63 papers).

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Roundtable: Embedding Participatory Governance, PSA Annual Conference, Liverpool, 6 April 2023

Conceptual Foundations of Political Process Preferences, ECPR Annual Conference, Innsbruck, 24 August 2022

Embedding Participatory Governance: What are the challenges of institutionalising a systemic approach to citizen participation? PSA Annual Conference, 29 March 2021.

Roundtable: Reinventing Democracy in the Age of Climate Crisis, ECPR Annual Conference, 28 August 2020.

Participatory Governance 2.0: a Systems Approach to Participation, ECPR Annual Conference, 26 August 2020.

Rethinking Participatory Governance and Social Movements, ECPR Annual Conference, 25 August 2020.

Dilemmas in Deliberative Democratic Theory, ECPR Annual Conference, 28 August 2020.

Participatory Governance: Approaches to Studying Participatory Systems, PSA Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 8 April 2020.*

Participatory Governance: How Participatory Systems Interact With Representative Institutions, PSA Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 8 April 2020.*

Democratic Innovations and the Systems Turn, ECPR Conference 2019, University of Wroclaw, 5 September 2019.

Citizen Participation and the Future of Democracy: A Systems Approach, DVPW Kongress, Frankfurt, 25 September 2018.

The Empirical Realities of the Deliberative System, PSA Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group Conference, London, 5 September 2018.

The Problem-Based Approach to Democratic Theory: Applications and Limitations, PSA Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group Conference, London, 5 September 2018.

Democratic Innovations beyond Political Decision-Making, European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) Annual Conference, Hamburg, 24 August 2018.

Creating Change through Participation and Deliberation. Workshop co-organised with Brigitte Geissel and Tamara Ehs. Goethe University Frankfurt, 29-30 November 2022.

Deliberating Like a State: Locating Public Administration in the Deliberative System. Democratic Systems Workshop, McGill University Faculty Club, 13-14 September 2022.

Citizens Conceptions of Democracy and Political Process Preferences: State of the Art and Future Directions. Workshop co-organised with Claudia Landwehr. Haus am Dom, Frankfurt am Main, 1-2 March 2022.

Citizen Participation in Digital-Era Governance
1. The Participatory Future of Democracy, Alfred Krupp WissenschaftKolleg Greifswald, 26 August 2019.
2. Democracy, the Digital and the Public Sphere, University of Westminster, 25 April 2019.
3. DIID Symposium: Effects of Online Participation, Schloss Mickeln, Düssledorf, 20 November 2018.

Systematizing Democratic Systems Approaches: Seven Conceptual Building Blocks
The Participatory Future of Democracy, Alfred Krupp WissenschaftKolleg Greifswald, 27 August 2019.

‘Three Forms of Synecdoche in the Deliberative System’
Putting Deliberation in Its Place Workshop, Westminster University, 10 December 2016.

‘Cognition or Discourse? What is a procedural preference?’
1. CASE Away Day, LSE, 16 September 2016.
2. Social Policy Research Day, Poster Session, 9 June 2016.
3. Social Policy Lunchtime Seminar, LSE, 2 June 2016.

‘What Happened to Labour’s Children? Progress on Adolescent Social Exclusion’
CASE Away Day, LSE, 25 September 2015, (with Moira Wallace).

‘Understanding Participation: A Q Method Study of Views of Public Participation in UK Social Policy’
Democracy Seminar, Ash Center, Harvard, 7 May 2015.

‘Participatory Policy Systems and the English NHS’
Citizens Initiative Review Workshop, Ash Center, Harvard, 21 April 2015.

‘Beyond Radicalism and Resignation: The Competing Logics of Public Participation in Policy Decisions’
1. LSE Research Festival, Poster Session, 3 November 2016.
2.Social Policy Research Day, Poster Session, 3 June, 2015.
3. Social Policy Lunchtime Seminar, LSE, 2 April 2014.

‘An Introduction to Q Methodology’, CASE Researcher’s Workshop, 14 May 2013.

Frankfurt Representative at the Voting and Elections Workshop of the Cities Fortifying Democracy Programme of the German Marshall Fund, 15 September, 2021.

Digital Tools for Political Participation, European Public Sphere and Ukrainian Vibes event on Inclusiveness of Democracy and Participatory Innovations, 7 September 2021. Recording.

Citizen Participation in Governance at the Government Outcomes Lab Fellows in Practice Seminar, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, 19 November 2020.

Participation and Decision-Making, LaDoc Film Festival, Cologne, Germany, 30 November 2018.

From Input to Influence: How Can the Participation of People in Poverty Shape Research and Decision-Making, CASE, London School of Economics, 16 November 2018. See right for recording

‘Artificial Intelligence and Democracy’
NextEra, London, 29 March 2017.

‘Meanings of Participation in Policy Institutions’
How2DoIt conference, Kings College London, 10 April 2016.

‘The Tragedy of Participation’
Stand-up Tragedy, Hackney Attic, 16 October 2015.

‘Public Participation: policy tool or revolution?’
Civil Service Open Policy Week, Department for Work and Pensions, 13 November 2014.

* = Paper/panel accepted but conference cancelled due to COVID-19

Recordings

What are “Democratic Innovations”? An interview with the Talk Social Science to Me Podcast.

Watch Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?

Listen to From Input to Influence: How Can the Participation of People in Poverty Shape Research and Decision-Making