Who were the experts?

We plan to publish all information relating to the statistical representativeness of the citizens who took part in the Deliberative Poll once all the numbers have all been fully crunched.

A couple of people also have asked who the experts were? So here's the list in full along with bios below:

The sessions 

Elections and Voting

Stuart Wilks Heeg
Tim Bale
Stuart Weir
Helen Deakin

Parliament 

Stuart Wilks Heeg
David Erdos
Alisdair MacKenzie

Tim Bale 

Rights and Freedoms and Political Parties

Afua Hirsch
David Erdos
Tim Bale
Qudsi Rasheed

Devolution and Local Government and Europe

Tony Travers
Stuart Wilks Heeg
Tim Bale
Alan Trench

Bios 

Tim Bale

Tim is senior lecturer in politics at Sussex University. Tim is also the Department's Official Representative for the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and is the co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research's annual Political Data Yearbook.

Helen Deakin

Helen is Policy and Press Officer for the British Youth Council, an organization which works to empower young people to have a say and be heard.

David Erdos

David is Katzenbach Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Balliol College, University of Oxford. His current research examines the nature of constitutional reform in the UK and other Westminster democracies. He has a Ph.D. from Princeton University (2006) and is author of a number of articles and conference papers on these and related topics.

Afua Hirsch

Afua is a former barrister and legal correspondent for the Guardian. 

Alasdair Mackenzie

Alasdair is Parliamentary Outreach Officer at the Houses of Parliament.

Qudsi Rasheed

Qudsi is the Legal Officer (Human Rights) for JUSTICE, the all party law reform and human rights organisation. He joined JUSTICE in September 2009 to work on a year-long project focusing on issues surrounding the Human Rights Act and any proposed bill of rights.

Tony Travers

Tony is director of LSE Greater London Group, a research centre at the London School of Economics. His key research interests include local and regional government and public service reform. He has published a number of books on cities and government, including Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax (with David Butler and Andrew Adonis) and The Politics of London: Governing the Ungovernable City (published in 2004).

Alan Trench

Alan is a research fellow in the Political Economy of Multi-level Governance at the University of Edinburgh. Before coming to Edinburgh, Alan was at the Constitution Unit at University College London, between 2001 and 2007 (and he remains honorary senior research fellow there). His key research interests include the institutional and policy-making aspects of territorial politics in the United Kingdom and comparatively.

Stuart Weir

Stuart is a Visiting Professor with the Government Department at the University of Essex. Stuart is also founder of Charter 88, the UK campaign for constitutional reform, and a former editor of the New Statesman and New Socialist, and former deputy editor of New Society. He is founder of the research organization, Democratic Audit.

Stuart Wilks Heeg

Stuart is Director of Democratic Audit. He is also a Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work Studies at the University of Liverpool.