Sonia Bussu is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Department of Public Administration and Policy, University of Birmingham. She published extensively on participatory deliberative democracy, participatory action research, community engagement, and coproduction of health services, with a focus on the role of facilitative leadership. She sits in advisory boards of organisations working democratic innovations in Italy and the UK. She is lead editor of a special issue on Embedding Participatory Governance (2022) for Critical Policy Studies. She co-edited a volume on Reclaiming Participatory Governance: Social Movements and the reinvention of Democratic Innovation (2023, Routledge). Sonia is co-editor of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy. She is the scientific coordinator of a Horizon Europe project on strengthening intersectional inclusion in democratic settings, INSPIRE.