I am currently undertaking a PhD in developing approaches to Citizen Social Science. My PhD is an Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded studentship, with joint supervision from the University of Manchester and Lancaster University in the UK. My interdisciplinary work explores the role of citizen-generated data in complementing that from the public sector. I am interested in the opportunity that citizen social science affords policy, as a sustainable approach to data collection and analysis, but also the role that public involvement in information infrastructures could play in challenging technocracy and promoting a more open and potentially democratic approach to social science research. Within this, I am critically engaging with how the practice of public sociology may have emancipatory effects, whereby transformatory knowledge can contribute towards a more just world. I have a background in social Policy, cultural policy and participatory research, having previously worked in a UK-based think tank, as well as in the Research and Policy team at Arts Council England.