Canning is a deliberative democracy researcher whose primary focuses are climate citizens’ assemblies, deliberations on AI policy and governance, and transnational and global citizens’ assemblies. While at Yale, she wrote her undergraduate thesis on the French Convention Citoyenne pour le climat, the Scottish Climate Assembly, and the Climate Assembly UK, comparing their processes and outputs to assess the efficacy of national-level climate deliberations on policy impact and participant-level climate mentality. She is a founding member of GloCAN, for whom she co-wrote a paper on agenda-setting practices in transnational and global citizens’ assemblies. At Democracy R&D, she contributed to the New Frontiers of Deliberative Democracy project. She is currently based in London.
