We're now on LinkedIn ✅ We will use this platform to share information about our Centre members and associates, publications, events, and industry and community collaborations. See you there 👇 au.linkedin.com/company/cent…

🎅 As the year comes to a close, we wish everyone a restful festive season and a happy New Year! 🙏 We thank to our amazing staff, students, associates, visitors and colleagues for their valuable contributions to our work throughout 2025. 😎 See you all next year!

📸 Some highlights from this year’s AusPSA Conference in Melbourne - a great few days of panels, conversations, and reconnecting with colleagues across the discipline. 🙏 A huge thank you to the organising committee and @UniMelb for an excellent program and hosting us so warmly.

🛎️ New Centre Publication 🛎️ @adelehwebb examines why exposure to diverse viewpoints does not necessarily ease democratic tensions and can, in fact, intensify polarisation - and what kinds of design choices can help address this. Read full article 👉 buff.ly/jd5ffw3

⚡ ⚡ Big congratulations to our colleague @Hans_Asenbaum, who has been awarded a DECRA for his project, Smart Democracy: Fostering Democratic Agency in the Age of AI ⚡ ⚡ You can view the project here: buff.ly/uBqXfM1

🎉 Big congratulations to our colleague Dr Jordan McSwiney for receiving the Henry Mayer Book Prize for the best book on Australian Politics, awarded at the AusPSA Annual Conference, for his book about far-right political parties! 🔗 Link to book here: routledge.com/Far-Right-Poli…

🛎️ This week we are at the Australian Political Studies Association's annual Conference, sharing our research across panels and plenaries on democratic innovations, Australian politics, environmental governance, and political science methods. Program: lnkd.in/g3hsFH3z

Some highlights from our conference "Democracy Reimagined: Advancing Democratic Resilience and Renewal" at the @UniCanberra this week, convened with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Australia New Zealand & Australian Resilient Democracy Research and Data Network 🙌 📸 David Beach

📣 Call for Papers: 2026 ECPR Joint Sessions Democratic Innovations as Feminist Publics: Principles and Infrastructures (co-directed by Olivia Mendoza, one of our PhD students) 📌 Abstract due 3 December 2025 🔗 Find out more: buff.ly/YKmiThM

🛎️ New Centre Visitor A warm welcome to Dr Melisa Ross, who has joined us this month as a Visiting Fellow from the University of Bremen. Mel brings deep expertise in citizen participation, deliberation, and democratic innovations. We look forward to the next month ahead!

⏳ The countdown begins! We’re preparing for our international conference at the University of Canberra, supported by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Australia and New Zealand 🙌 With over 40 speakers and 10 thematic panels, the event explores new perspectives and practical insights

🔗 "Mini-Public Adjudication of Human Rights Disputes: An Empirical Evaluation", by Henry Palmerlee, Ron Levy and Kate Ogg: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🚨 Final seminar for the year! Emanuela Savini teams up with Olivier Schulbaum and Nadia Nadesan from @platoniq Foundation for an interactive session exploring how creative practices can open up new ways of thinking about democracy. 👉 Register here: events.humanitix.com/enhanci…

🚀 Launched on Wednesday, you can now download our Guidebook for Deliberative Engagement: Key Features and Practical Insights 👉 researchprofiles.canberra.ed… We’re grateful to the NSW Government and the Australian Government for supporting the development of this Guidebook.