Speakers

Goda Perlaviciute is associate professor in Environmental Psychology at the University of Groningen. Her research interests lie in public evaluations and acceptability of energy sources, systems and policies, and which factors influence these evaluations and acceptability judgements.

Wytse Gorter is a junior researcher at the University of Groningen, at the department of Environmental Pshychology. In June 2022 he obtained his Master’s degree in ‘Environmental Psychology’ and since then he assists in research about increasing and improving public participation processes in future energy systems.

Leah Henderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theoretical Philosophy in the University of Groningen. Her areas of research expertise are philosophy of science and epistemology. She works on both basic philosophical problems and more applied topics. She is interested in the role that public participation can play in solutions to the climate problem.

Eva Rovers is a writer and co-founder of ‘Bureau Burgerberaad’. Her book ‘Nu is het aan ons. Oproep tot echte democratie’ appeared at ‘De Correspondent’ in 2022. In this book Eva pled for national citizen assemblies focused on climate policy. Eva studied cultural history at the University of Utrecht and obtained her doctorate at the University of Groningen.