Articles by Jen Roberts

November 18, 2022

Citizen assemblies must report on expert diversity and inclusion

Jen Roberts

Deliberative approaches like citizen assemblies are gaining traction, particularly to inform climate policy. To ensure the legitimacy of these processes, Jen Roberts and her team argue that the process of selecting experts involved in citizen deliberations should be transparent, and must consider diversity and inclusivity

Jen Roberts

Senior Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde

Jen's research is interdisciplinary and applied, and addresses socio-technical transitions for climate action – often relating to earth resources.

A strong theme of her work is whole systems impacts and benefits for integrated and equitable decision making to inform a fair and inclusive transition to a sustainable net zero future.

She tweets @the_JenRoberts

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