| Profile: Associate Professor Lyn Carson |
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Lyn Carson is Associate Professor in Applied Politics at The University of Sydney, with the United States Studies Centre. "Carson" is The University of Sydney's Chief Investigator on the Citizens' Parliament Project. 
Carson teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses about public involvement in decision making, and conducts local and global research into deliberative innovations. She has written handbooks on community engagement and many articles and book chapters on public participation, including a book with Brian Martin, Random Selection in Politics (Praeger, 1999). She draws on her earlier experience as an elected local government representative to design and conduct participatory processes. She has also participated in many examples of active democracy, for example Australia's first consensus conference, Australia's first two deliberative polls, numerous citizens' juries, a combined citizen's panel and televote and Australia's first youth jury. Carson is a Director on the board of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2). |
