Ann Harding Conference Centre
Building 24, University of Canberra ACT 2601
About visiting the Centre
FAQs about visiting the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance
The Centre hosts academics at various stages of their careers. We also welcome PhD students at the advanced stages of their study. Learn more about visitors here.
The length of time spent in the Centre vary, with some staying for a week, others for a year.
Visitors planning to spend more than three weeks at the Centre must get in touch with one of the academic staff based at the Centre to discuss the project they will work on during their stay.
Visitors are expected to deliver a seminar at the Deliberative Democracy Seminar Series which takes place on Tuesdays at 11 am. Guests are encouraged to join the Centre’s weekly morning tea on Tuesdays at 10:30 am, participate in reading groups, workshops, public events, and engagement activities.
They may also co-organise activities with staff and students. In the past, we held book workshops, writing retreats and methods café with our guests
Most of our visitors are self-funded.
There are occasional calls for visitor grants, such as the University of Canberra’s Distinguished International Visitor Prize.
Follow @DelDemUCan for the latest calls for application.
Distinguished International Visitor Prize recipients
The University of Canberra’s Distinguished International Visitor Prize is awarded to academics that facilitate strategic research collaborations between UC-based researchers and international partners. Follow @DelDemUCan 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’s Open Government Unit. She also contributes to Carnegie Europe’s 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‘s 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’s 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 https://claudiachwalisz.com/ or follow her on Twitter @Claudia Chwalisz
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 ‘Democratic Innovation, Citizen-Centred Practice, and Institutional Change.’ 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 Deliberative Democracy Seminar Series.
Ian O’Flynn
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 Maija Setälä (University of Turku) on conflicts of preference and conflicts of judgment. He presented their work-in-progress paper at the Deliberative Democracy Seminar Series.
During his visit, Ian also participated in the ARC Laureate Project conference Deliberation, Culture, Context convened by Jensen Sass. Listen to Ian’s 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—a 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 Power in Deliberative Democracy: Norms, Forums, Systems.
John also presented a paper at the Deliberative Democracy Seminar Series on deliberative cultures in East Asian societies, drawing on John Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy.
Visiting Scholars
Visiting scholars are a key feature in the Centre’s intellectual life. Over the past decade, we have hosted close to 100 scholars at various stages in their careers, working on projects related to deliberative democracy, political theory, environmental politics and more.
· Elisabeth Alber, Eurac Research in South Tyrol (Visited in 2018)
· Hans Asenbaum, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (Visited in 2017, 2018 and 2020)
· André Bächtiger, University of Stuttgart (Visited in 2015, 2017, 2019 2020)
· Peter Balint, University of New South Wales-Canberra (Visited in 2018)
· Thais Choucair, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Visited from 2019-2020)
· Claudia Chwalisz, OECD (Visited in 2019)
· Kari De Pryck, University of Geneva (Visited in 2019)
· Albert Dzur, Bowling Green State University (Visited in 2014, 2017, and 2018)
· Sara Drury, Wabash College (Visited in 2019)
· Katharina Esau, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Visited in 2018)
· Tamirace Fakhoury, Lebanese American University (Visited in 2018)
· David Farrell, University College Dublin (Visited in 2019)
· Nikolai Gad, Newcastle University (Visited in 2018)
· Alexander Geisler, University of Geneva (Visited in 2020)
· Marit Hammond (nee Böker), University of Essex/Keele University (Visited in 2014, 2017 and 2018)
· Carolyn Hendriks, Australian National University (Visited in 2019)
· Jonathan Kuyper, Stockholm University, (Visited in 2014 and 2018)
· Marina Lindell, Åbo Akademi University (Visited in 2020)
· Maija Jäske, University of Turku (Visited in 2018)
· Franziska Maier, University of Stuttgart (Visited in 2020)
· Filipe Motta, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Visited from 2019 to 2020)
· Ricardo Mendonça, Federal University of Minas Gerais, (Visited in 2007-2008, 2017 and 2018)
· Lala Muradova, KU Leuven (Visited in 2020)
· John Parkinson, University of Warwick/Griffith University (Visited in 2011, 2015, 2017, 2018)
· Andreas Schaefer, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (Visited in 2019)
· Mary (Molly) Scudder, Purdue University (Visited in 2019)
· Hayley Stevenson, University of Sheffield/ Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Visited in 2014 and 2018)
· Darielle Talarico, University of British Columbia, (Visited in 2020)
· Viktor Valgardsson, University of Southampton, (Visited in 2019)
· Julien Vrydagh, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, (Visited in 2020)
· Marta Wojciechowska, London School of Economics, (Visited in 2014 and 2018)
· James Wong, London School of Economics /Hong Kong University, (Visited in 2011 and 2018)
· Emmanuel Ani, University of Ghana (Visited in 2017)
· Karin Bäckstrand, Stockholm University (Visited in 2017)
· Bahadir Celiktemur, University of Warwick (Visited in 2015)
· Hans Asenbaum, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (Visited in 2017, 2018 and 2020)
· André Bächtiger, University of Stuttgart (Visited in 2015, 2017, 2019 2020)
· Simone Chambers, University of California (Visited in 2017)
· Katherine Curchin, Australian National University (Visited in 2015)
· Albert Dzur, Bowling Green State University (Visited in 2014, 2017, and 2018)
· Madeleine Egan, University of Melbourne (Visited in 2017)
· Stephen Elstub, Newcastle University (Visited in 2016)
· Dannica Fleuß, Helmut-Schmidt-University (Visited in 2018 and 2020)
· Walter Frank Baber, California State University (Visited in 2012)
· Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Simon Fraser University (Visited in 2013)
· Kimmo Grönlund, Åbo Akademi (Visited in 2014 and 2017)
· Marit Hammond (nee Böker), University of Essex/Keele University (Visited in 2014, 2017 and 2018)
· Lucy Hatton, University of Warwick (Visited in 2015)
· Eda Keremoglu-Waibler, University of Stuttgart (Visited in 2016)
· Andrew Knops, University of Birmingham (Visited in 2012)
· Hoi Kong, McGill University (Visited in 2014)
· Priya Anna Kurian, University of Waikato (Visited in 2013)
· Jonathan Kuyper, Stockholm University, (Visited in 2014 and 2018)
· Li-chia Lo, University of Melbourne (Visited in 2017)
· Benjamin Lyons, University of Pennsylvania (Visited in 2016)
· Antonio M. La Viña, Ateneo de Manila University (Visited in 2016)
· Ricardo Mendonça, Federal University of Minas Gerais, (Visited in 2007-2008, 2017 and 2018)
· John Min, College of Southern Nevada (Visited in 2016)
· Debashish Munshi, University of Waikato (Visited in 2013)
· Sofie Marien, KU Leuven, (Visited in 2017)
· Ian O'Flynn, Newcastle University, (Visited in 2014 and 2017)
· John Parkinson, University of Warwick/Griffith University (Visited in 2011, 2015, 2017, 2018)
· Lucy J. Parry, University of Sheffield (Visited in 2015)
· Åsa Persson, Stockholm Environment Institute (Visited in 2017)
· James Pow, Queen's University Belfast (Visited in 2017)
· Elise Remling, Södertörn University (Visited in 2017)
· Javier Romero, University of Salamanca (Visited in 2017)
· William Smith, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Visited in 2015)
· Hayley Stevenson, University of Sheffield/ Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Visited in 2014 and 2018)
· Sabine Stumpf, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, (Visited in 2012)
· Tetsuki Tamura, Nagoya University, (Visited in 2009 to 2011 and 2016)
· Marta Wojciechowska, London School of Economics, (Visited in 2014 and 2018)
· Simona Zimmermann, University of Stuttgart, (Visited in 2017)
· Henrik Bang, University of Copenhagen (Visited in 2010)
· John Barry, Queen's University Belfast (Visited in 2011)
· Joachim Blatter, University of Lucerne (Visited in 2010)
· Zsuzsanna Chappell, London School of Economics (Visited in 2011)
· Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona
· Nicole Curato, University of Birmingham (Visited in 2011)
· Suzanne Dovi, University of Arizona
· David Estlund, Brown University
· John Ferejohn, Stanford University
· Frank Fischer, Rutgers University (Visited in 2008)
· Tom Flynn, University of York (Visited in 2007)
· John Gastil, University of Washington (Visited in 2009)
· Kersty Hobson, University of Oxford (Visited in 2011)
· Qingzhi Huan, Peking University (Visited in 2010)
· Meena Krishnamurthy, University of Manitoba
· Peter John, University of Manchester
· Claudia Landwehr, University of Hamburg, (Visited in 2007)
· Monique Leyenaar, Radboud University Nijmegen (Visited in 2008)
· Christian List, London School of Economics
· Kasper M. Hansen, University of Copenhagen (Visited in 2007)
· Jane Mansbridge, Harvard University
· Ricardo Mendonça, Federal University of Minas Gerais, (Visited in 2007-2008, 2017 and 2018)
· Ank Michels, Utrecht University (Visited in 2009)
· Karolina Milewicz, Oxford University
· Claus Offe, Hertie School of Governance (Visited from 2007 to 2008)
· Soon Yawl Park, Seoul National University (Visited from 2007 to 2008)
· John Parkinson, University of Warwick/Griffith University (Visited in 2011, 2015, 2017, 2018)
· Anne Phillips, London School of Economics (Visited in 2010)
· Henry Richardson, Georgetown University
· Maija Setälä, University of Turku (Visited in 2011)
· Geoffrey Stokes, Deakin University
· Tetsuki Tamura, Nagoya University, (Visited in 2009 to 2011 and 2016)
· Cor van Montfort, Tilburg University, (Visited in 2009)
· James Wong, London School of Economics /Hong Kong University, (Visited in 2011 and 2018)