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Professor Alan Renwick
Alan Renwick is the Principal Investigator of the Democracy in the UK after Brexit project. He is Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit and Professor in Democratic Politics at University College London (UCL). His research interests include the ways in which citizens can engage with formal democratic politics and policy-making, particularly elections, referendums, and citizens’ assemblies. He also led the Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit, which was held in 2017.
Professor Meg Russell
Meg Russell is a Co-Investigator on this project. She is Director of the Constitution Unit and Professor of British and Comparative Politics at UCL. Her main research interest is the British parliament, particularly the House of Lords, though she has also written on political party organisation, devolution, and women’s representation in politics. She was a Co-Investigator on the Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit.
Professor Ben Lauderdale
Ben Lauderdale is a Co-Investigator on this project. He is Professor of Political Science at UCL and is a Senior Data Science Advisor to YouGov. His research interests lie in measuring political preferences, using survey, voting, network and text data.
James Cleaver
James Cleaver was a Research Assistant on the project. He originally joined the Constitution Unit as a Research Volunteer in January 2021. His research interests include the ways in which citizens can influence politics outside of elections, deliberative democracy and political theory.
Alice Hart
Alice Hart was a Research Assistant on the project. She originally joined the Constitution Unit in October 2022 as a Research Volunteer.
Sophie Andrews-McCarroll
Sophie Andrews-McCarroll joined the project in March 2022 as the Constitution Unit's Impact Research Fellow. She is responsible for maximising this project’s real-world impact on policy-making and civil society.
Tim Hughes
Tim Hughes was the Design and Facilitation Lead for the Citizens’ Assembly on Democracy in the UK from June to September 2021. He was Director of Involve, the UK’s leading public participation charity. He is the co-editor of the recent work Democracy in a Pandemic: Participation in Response to Crisis.
Rebekah McCabe
Rebekah McCabe was the Project Manager for the Citizens’ Assembly on Democracy in the UK. She is Head of Northern Ireland at Involve. Her interests lie in developing the awareness, understanding, and use of participatory and deliberative tools across government and civil society.
Kaela Scott
Kaela Scott was the Design and Facilitation Lead for the Citizens' Assembly on Democracy in the UK. She was Director of Innovation and Practice at Involve, a role focused on encouraging the widespread uptake of participatory and deliberative democracy. Her interests lie in overcoming the challenge of translating the desire to involve citizens in the decisions that affect them into processes that are meaningful and effective for communities, public sector bodies and political administrations alike.
