Dr Marc Geddes
Dr Marc Geddes is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, and Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Parliamentary Research, Berlin. His research interests include how people’s interpretations and everyday lives affect wider political outcomes. In 2020, he published his first monograph, Dramas at Westminster, which examined how MPs’ interpretations of their work affected accountability in the House of Commons. The book won the WJM Mackenzie Book Prize for best book published in political science in 2021.
Marc has had a long interest in the relationships between parliaments and how they gather, analyse and use different types of knowledge, and was the Co-Director of the Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy (SKAPE) between 2019 and 2022. In 2021, he undertook a year-long Parliamentary Academic Fellowship to examine and review the evidence-gathering processes of parliamentary committees in the House of Commons; he published early findings in Good Evidence?. In 2024, Marc will begin a major new project to re-think parliaments as ‘knowledge institutions’. This new, five-year project – called Studying Parliaments and the Role of Knowledge (SPARK) – was selected as an ERC Starting Grant (which will be funded by the UKRI Horizon Guarantee).
Stephanie Barnes
Stephanie took her early career quite seriously, focusing initially on accounting and then information technology, and knowledge management but then she discovered painting and fell in love. She realized work could be enjoyable and slowly started to bring art and creativity into her consulting practice, spreading the playfulness and insights that came with it to those she worked with. She eventually named what she does Radical Knowledge Management, because it goes back to the roots of how we learn: playfully, and creatively. She now focuses on helping humans in an AI mad world.