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Intersectional Spaces of Participation:
Inclusive, Resilient, Embedded

The INSPIRE Team

INSPIRE brings together 17 partner organisations from Northern, Southern, Central and Eastern Europe. The team includes researchers, practitioners and digital designers with extensive knowledge of democratic Innovation.

Dr Sonia Bussu

Associate Professor in Public Policy. Scientific coordinator of INSPIRE

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

Petra Guasti

Associate professor of democratic theory at the Faculty of Social Sciences

UNIVERZITA KARLOVA

LaShanda Seaman

Associate Director

Ipsos

Lesia Shykiriava

Research Assistant

UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI

Catherine Forde

Senior lecturer/associate professor in youth and community work

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK

Gabriella Kiss

Associate Professor

HUN REN Centre for Social Sciences

Marta Wojciechowska

Lecturer in Politics

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON

Adrian Bua

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA

Szilvia Nagy

Research Fellow

JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN

Mariana Rosa

Research Assistant

INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS

Dena Arya

Research Fellow

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

Olivier Schulbaum

Strategic Director

PLATONIQ FOUNDATION

Vanessa Liston

Founder and CEO

APHELION LTD

Anna Przybylska

UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI

Alice Koubova

FILOSOFICKY USTAV AV CR V V I

Zoya Damianova

Program Director of ARC Fund

APPLIED RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATIONS FUND

Stefano Sotgiu

PROSSIMA DEMOCRAZIA

Rikki Dean

Associate Professor in Politics

JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN

Felix Hoffmann

Research Fellow and doctoral candidate

JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN

Brigitte Geißel

Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology. Head of the Research Unit ‘Democratic Innovations.’

JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN

Oliver Escobar

Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

Roberto Falanga

Assistant Research Professor

INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS

Anna Palka

Research Assistant

UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI

Dániel Oross

HUN REN Centre for Social Sciences

Slavyanka Ivanova

Senior Analyst

APPLIED RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATIONS FUND

Dayo Eseonu

Lecturer in Politics and Policy

UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER

Dr Lucy J Parry

Research Fellow

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

João Amorim

Research Assistant

INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS

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