Ann Harding Conference Centre
Building 24, University of Canberra ACT 2601
Distinguished International Visitor Prize recipients
The University of Canberra鈥檚 Distinguished International Visitor Prize is awarded to academics that facilitate strategic research collaborations between UC-based researchers and international partners. Follow for the latest call for application.
The Centre is proud to host the following visitors:
Claudia Chwalisz
OECD
Claudia is an expert on democratic innovation, deliberative democracy, citizen engagement in policy making, populism, and comparative political economy. Currently, she is based in Paris, leading work on the future of democracy and innovative citizen participation at the OECD鈥檚 Open Government Unit. She also contributes to Carnegie Europe鈥檚 Reshaping European Democracy Project and mentored the Social Design masters students at the Design Academy Eindhoven this past year.
Previously, she was a strategy consultant working with political parties and campaigns at Populus in London. Prior to that, she led Policy Network鈥榮 work on populism, democracy and political economy, and completed a public service fellowship with the Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics. She is the author of The People鈥檚 Verdict: Adding Informed Citizen Voices to Public Decision-making (2017) and The Populist Signal: Why Politics and Democracy Need to Change (2015).
For more information, visit or follow her on Twitter
Albert Dzur
Bowling Green State University
Albert is a Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. He visited the Centre in July 2018 to work on his project on 鈥楧emocratic Innovation, Citizen-Centred Practice, and Institutional Change.鈥� This project explores the democratic role of less structured sites placing citizens in social problem-solving roles and seeks to develop a typology of non-forum based democratic innovation. He presented his work-in-progress paper with Carolyn Hendriks at the .
Ian O鈥橣lynn
University of Newcastle
Ian is a Senior Lecturer of Politics at the University of Newcastle (UK). He visited the Centre in December 2017 to work on his theoretical project with our associate (University of Turku) on conflicts of preference and conflicts of judgment. He presented their work-in-progress paper at the .
During his visit, Ian also participated in the ARC Laureate Project conference Deliberation, Culture, Context convened by Jensen Sass. Listen to Ian鈥檚 interview on his visit at the Centre in the Real Democracy Now podcast.
This is the second time Ian visited the Centre. The first visit was in 2014 when the Centre was still based at the Australian National University.
John Min
College of Southern Nevada
John is an instructor at the Department of Social Sciences at the College of Southern Nevada. He first visited the Centre in 2015 as a recipient of the travel grant for the First Deliberative Democracy Summer School. In 2016, returned to Canberra as a recipient of the Distinguished International Visiting Fellow鈥攁 major achievement for an early career scholar.
In this visit, John workshopped several theoretical ideas with research fellow Nicole Curato, which is now published in the book .
John also presented a paper at the on deliberative cultures in East Asian societies, drawing on John Dewey鈥檚 pragmatist philosophy.
