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On Thursday 15th October 2026, the CDP held a very successful evening talk with the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Daniel Greenberg CB. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is an independent officer of the House of Commons. The Commissioner is responsible for monitoring the operation of the House of Commons Code of Conduct and Registers (including...
Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira has recently stepped down from her role as Chair of the International Parliament Engagement Network (IPEN), and steps into a new role as CPD Co-Director.
Can bespoke AI assistants with place-based knowledge support citizens in climate policy deliberation? Read our report of a field-study in Kirklees on AI-assisted local mini-publics on climate change
Frances O’Grady delivers the 2026 Alice Bacon Lecture
Written evidence submitted to the Modernisation Committee of the UK House of Commons by Professor Leston-Bandeira and by the International Parliament Engagement Network (IPEN) has been cited in the committee’s report, published at the end of 2025. IPEN was co-founded by Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira in 2020 in partnership with the UK House of Commons service. It is an international network...
Professor Viktoria Spaiser is attending (online) this year's COP30 as part of the University of Leeds COP30 delegation, promoting the 2nd Global Tipping Points Report
Professor Viktoria Spaiser has contributed to six chapters of the 2nd Global Tipping Points Report launched on the 13th of October 2025, ahead of the COP30. Read here about the key take-aways from the report.
2025 marks 10 years since e-petitions to the UK Parliament were introduced. Since then, over 30 million people have signed e-petitions to parliament and every year over 10,000 e-petitions are considered. As part of the celebrations marking this important milestone, the UK Parliament held a reception in Speaker’s House at the Palace of Westminster, which...
Over the past two years, the International Parliament Engagement Network (IPEN) has developed a project to put together a pioneering map of the services that parliaments offer across the world on public engagement. To date this information had not been available, with the map providing vital insights into how parliaments are trying to strengthen engagement...
Viktoria Spaiser is delighted to have received a three year extension for her UKRI Future Leadership Fellowship, starting in October 2025. Viktoria has exciting plans for her extension, including exploring generative AI Agent Based Models to better understand complex social dynamics that can bring about climate solutions or can reinforce maladaptive responses to escalating climate...