Last year, we launched a survey to create an accessible global map of parliamentary public engagement practice.
The survey is part of a project titled Mapping public engagement in parliaments across the world, developed as a Parliamentary Academic Fellowship through the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), together with the International Parliament Engagement Network (IPEN).
The map is now coming together and will soon be launched online. Huge thanks to those of you who have contributed by completing a survey to help us understand how different parliaments engage with their citizens.
Coordinating the survey is Dr Laura Sudulich, a Parliamentary Academic Fellow based at the University of Essex. Laura has now created a beta version of the map and is in the final stages of collecting and collating the data.
It’s not too late for details for your parliament to be added. If you have any information you wish to be included in the map, the survey is still open and can be accessed here.
We are interested in including public engagement activity in all parliaments across the world, whether that be national, subnational or supranational.
IPEN members can try out the beta version of the map – to give feedback and check that information you have submitted so far is correct – by accessing it in IPEN’s MS Teams space.
Find out more about the project and survey to create a map of public engagement practice in this news story on the IPEN website.
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Page published: 23 April 2025