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Pravar Petkar
@pravarpetkar.bsky.social
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Researcher working on participatory democracy, constituent power and democratic legitimacy with interest in UK and India.
Prev: University of Edinburgh (PhD), LSE (LLM)
Co-Editor, IACL-AIDC Blog.
Website: https://pravarpetkar.com
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Some thoughts on the UK Govt’s recent ‘Votes at 16’ announcement - in short, we need much better citizenship education for voters (or all ages) that is practical as well as theoretical for this to be a success.

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July 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Great discussion @mileendinstitute.bsky.social yesterday on options for electoral reform in the UK. Pleased to see territorial issues also addressed - the asymmetry of representative systems across the UK means that reform will impact different areas in different ways.
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Panel discussion on How to Replace First Past the Post: Electoral Reform in Action, hosted by the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University London. The event was co-organised by Unlock Democracy, the Electoral Reform Society and Make Votes Matter.
April 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Looking forward to being part of this hybrid panel discussion on 11 March exploring participatory democracy, systems thinking and Higher Ed reform across the UK, USA and India.

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interlinki...
Flyer for a talk titled Interlinking Sustainable Democracy and Sustainable Education on 11 March 2025 at the International Centre for Sustainability. The speakers are Dr Pavel Cenkl and Dr Pravar Petkar.
February 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Looking forward to this talk on the UK’s role in a disrupted world in a couple of weeks’ time in central London - register below for tickets!
A flyer for a public lecture at the International Centre for Sustainability in London about the UK’s role in a changing world order.
February 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Great to be back in Edinburgh yesterday to talk about my PhD research on constituent power in the UK at the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law!

www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
The dome of Old College, University of Edinburgh, against a largely clear blue sky.
November 13, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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Now that official confirmation has come through, I’m pleased to share that I passed my PhD viva without corrections last month. Many thanks to the examiners (Prof Neil Walker and Prof Mike Gordon) for a fruitful discussion and to my supervisors, friends and family!
September 30, 2024 at 9:29 AM
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Turns out that according to Research Gate, writing about devolution and referendums makes you an expert in Fruit Science too!
ResearchGate page of an article on devolution titled ‘Cracking a nut with a sledgehammer’ that lists the article under Fruit Science, mistakenly thinking the article is about nuts.
September 27, 2024 at 7:27 AM
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Some summer reading (for a forthcoming book review).
A copy of Referendums as Representative Democracy by Leah Trueblood on a white table.
August 16, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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Great to have the opportunity to present some of my research on constituent power as an unwritten political constitutional limit at this fantastic symposium on Unwritten Constitutionalism today! Thanks to the organisers.
January 23, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Quote with a picture of water you took: the River Severn at Ironbridge in Shropshire (21 May 2023).
Buildings, trees and boats either side of the River Severn at Ironbridge, Shropshire, England against a clear blue sky.
November 5, 2023 at 1:04 PM