Lucy J Parry is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy, University of Canberra. Her research covers participatory and deliberative democracy in theory and practice. She led the empirical research for the Deliberative Integrity Project and she currently co-leads a work package of the INSPIRE project on the political economy of participation. She is also a co-editor of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy and editor of the Deliberative Democracy Digest, and a co-founder of Animals in the Room, a newly established focused on the representation of other species in democratic decision-making.