Podcaster, facilitator and improviser, exploring how people and the rest of nature can thrive, right now and whatever the polycrisis brings. thrivablescotland.com 📍Edinburgh, Scotland
Podcaster, facilitator and improviser, exploring how people and the rest of nature can thrive, right now and whatever the polycrisis brings. thrivablescotland.com 📍Edinburgh, Scotland
Participation in live and decisioning making is a common factor
Editor - Book
What if we stopped treating social care like a service? A small village community in Yorkshire showed me another way
A visit to my friend in a remote Yorkshire village led me into a three-month immersion in one of Britain’s most remarkable forms of social care.
Critical Mess to Critical Mass: democratic innovation for collective climate action
How democratic innovation can build trust to unlock and mobilise collective intelligence for meaningful collective action. With Prof Oliver Escobar.
Critical Mess to Critical Mass: democratic innovation for collective climate action
How democratic innovation can build trust to unlock and mobilise collective intelligence for meaningful collective action. With Prof Oliver Escobar.
Citizen Participation (@oliverescobar.bsky.social)
Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation | University of Edinburgh | Working on #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #governance #power #research | RT≠ endorse | Own views | Profile: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/oliver-escobar
Oliver Escobar | School of Social and Political Science
Public participation, participatory and deliberative democracy, environmental politics, climate action, collaborative governance and partnerships, public dialogue and deliberation, facilitation and mediation, democratic innovations, interpretive policy analysis, political ethnography, mixed methods, in/equalities, participatory and deliberative methodologies, smart cities, social innovation, power, politics of science and technology, governance, democracy, civic tech, commons, digital public sphere, digital participation, online deliberation, mini-publics, citizens' assemblies, participatory budgeting, community empowerment, political economy, democratic economies, community economies
Community wealth building
As the UK’s leading organisation for community wealth building, we work with places to build fairer, more inclusive local economies.
Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Act 2026
This version of this Act contains provisions that are prospective.