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Rebooting Democracy: Democratic Innovation for the Information Age

Staff

Lead researcher

Dr Matt Ryan

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Democracy
  • Social Research Methods
  • Web Science
Connect with Matt

Email: M.G.Ryan@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Tim Norman

Head of School

Research interests

  • Learning and reasoning under uncertainty
  • AI safety
  • Human-AI collaboration
Connect with Tim

Email: T.J.Norman@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Agents, Interaction and Complexity

We research the science and engineering of complex areas. We focus on areas including human-machine teams and human-in-the-loop interaction.

Research outputs

M-Arg: multimodal argument mining dataset for political debates with audio and transcripts
Rafael Mestre, Razvan Milicin, Stuart Middleton, Matthew Ryan, Jiatong Zhu & Timothy Norman, 2021
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.argmining-1.8
Type: conference
Community control in the housing commons: a conceptual typology
Catherine Durose, Liz Richardson, Max Rozenburg, Matt Ryan & Oliver Escobar, 2021, International Journal of the Commons, 15(1), 291-304
DOI: 10.5334/ijc.1093
Type: article
Introduction to WebSci’21 Workshop ‘Democratic Futures and the Web’
Valentina Cardo, Silke Roth & Matthew Ryan, 2021
DOI: 10.1145/3462741.3466724
Type: conference
The credibility of regional policymaking: Insights from South America
Pia Riggirozzi & Matt Ryan, 2021, Globalizations, 19(4), 604-619
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2021.1893530
Type: article
Place-based politics and nested deprivation in the UK: beyond Cities-Towns, ‘Two Englands’, and the ‘Left behind’
John Boswell, John Denham, James Furlong, Anna Killick, Patricia Ndugga, Beata Rek, Matthew Ryan & Jesse, Shipp, 2020, Representation, 58(2), 169-190
DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2020.1751258
Type: article