Development of robotics for biolab handling by Oh, Victor Zhi Qi

“…Through this approach, the aim is to democratise access to liquid handling automation within laboratory environments while maintaining performance and reliability.…”
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Gender equality in intimate relationships : an exploratory study. by Ting, Samantha.

“…If the sphere of intimacy is increasingly ‘democratised’ as societies progress into late modernity, intimate relationships would progressively advocate principles of egalitarianism, autonomy and dialogue. …”
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La educación de personas adultas en la sociedad de la información by Ramón Flecha, Carmen Elboj

“…From the reference of two projects, Distance and Omnia, we compile those practices and educational methodologies that foster and democratise the new technologies extensión and education through them, for all. …”
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The quality of parental participation and student achievement in Peruvian government schools. by Balarin, M, Cueto, S

“…The study was undertaken against a background of encouragement of parental participation in education as a means to democratise and improve the quality of educational services. …”

Open source approaches to establishing Roseobacter clade bacteria as synthetic biology chassis for biogeoengineering by Yanika Borg, Aurelija Marija Grigonyte, Philipp Boeing, Bethan Wolfenden, Patrick Smith, William Beaufoy, Simon Rose, Tonderai Ratisai, Alexey Zaikin, Darren N. Nesbeth

“…The nascent field of bio-geoengineering stands to benefit from synthetic biologists’ efforts to standardise, and in so doing democratise, biomolecular research methods. Roseobacter clade bacteria comprise 15–20% of oceanic bacterio-plankton communities, making them a prime candidate for establishment of synthetic biology chassis for bio-geoengineering activities such as bioremediation of oceanic waste plastic. …”
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Digital Crime Histories and Developing a Public Pedagogy of Criminal Justice by Alana Piper, Katherine Roscoe

“…Crime history was a pioneer in the digital arena, democratising access to the past by engaging large public and academic audiences with primary datasets online. …”
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Harnessing artificial intelligence in radiology to augment population health by Jordan Z. T. Sim, K. N. Bhanu Prakash, Wei Min Huang, Cher Heng Tan, Cher Heng Tan

“…In the context of preventive health, we will discuss how AI can support population level screening for major disease burdens through opportunistic screening and democratise expertise to increase access to radiological services in primary and community care.…”
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A personal reflection on co-creation in public health: a dream partly realised by Adrian Bauman

“…To fully realise the co-creation ‘dream’, we need a process of more committed co-production using democratised approaches to community engagement. This must be supported by long-term funding to mainstream the process and to demonstrate whether comprehensive co-creation makes an eventual difference in sustainable health outcome improvement.…”
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Netflix – The Curation of Taste and the Business of Diversification by Andrew Higson

“…A utopian discourse proclaims the democratising potential of digital media technologies, including Netflix’s claims about its personalised, on-demand service. …”
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The Political Defence of the Commons: The Case of Community Networks by Félix Tréguer, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay

“…While pointing to the diversity of action repertoires used by various Community Networks across Europe, the article points to the potential of these instances of political advocacy to democratise both telecommunications and policy-making in the telecom sector, an area that is prone to both eviction of small actors and regulatory capture by special economic interests. …”
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The quality of parental participation and student achievement in Peruvian government schools by Balarin, M, Cueto, S

“…The study was undertaken against a background of encouragement of parental participation in education as a means to democratise and improve the quality of educational services. …”

Cutting the network? Facebook's Libra currency as a problem of organisation by Daniel Tischer

“…Central to this is the claim that Libra is not an exercise in democratising money, but rather, the opposite: Libra is run as a club, for the benefit of club members. …”
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Civic Engagement and Democracy in Post-Suharto Indonesia: A Review of Musrenbang, the Kecamatan Development Programme, and Labour Organising by Gyda Marås Sindre

“…The analysis focuses on the democratising aspects of these sectors, arguing that participation and mobilisation lacks the necessary popular foundations as well as organisational capacities that are necessary for participatory institutions to effectively enhance democracy. …”
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Horrible British Histories: Young people in museums interrogating national identity through principles and practices of critical pedagogy by Sadia Habib

“…Critical pedagogy is an emancipatory and transformative approach to democratising education, and we urgently need more of it in museums to radically transform heritage spaces.  …”
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Hold, delete, suppress : a study of press censorship in occupied Japan by Yeo, Cavin Jia Hao

“…Despite having arrived with a mission to democratise Japan, the US felt the need to suppress speech and communication that was potentially harmful to the overall success of the Occupation. …”
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Platform and data co-operatives amidst European pandemic citizenship by Calzada, I

“…This chapter responds to whether it is possible to alter the existing data governance extractivist conditions for incentivising the emergence of platform and data cooperatives to further democratise and thus protect pandemic European citizens' labour and digital rights. …”

Post-COVID-19: can digital solutions lead to a more equitable global healthcare workforce? by Nagina Khan, Wolfgang Gilliar, J. S. Bamrah, Subodh Dave

“…The wide reach of digital platforms offering remote healthcare offers the opportunity of democratising access to high-quality healthcare, However, certain challenges remain: (a) clinical guidance developed in one geographical area may need adaptation for use in others; (b) regulatory mechanisms from one jurisdiction need to offer patient safety across other jurisdictions; (c) barriers created by disparity in technology infrastructure and the variation in pay for services across different economies, leading to brain drain and an inequitable workforce. …”
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Horrible British Histories: Young people in museums interrogating national identity through principles and practices of critical pedagogy by Sadia Habib

“…Critical pedagogy is an emancipatory and transformative approach to democratising education, and we urgently need more of it in museums to radically transform heritage spaces.  …”
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Co-creation of Alternative Futures Using Technologies of Geoinformation Structured in a Geodesign Method: Contributions to the State-of-the-Art by Emil Lanfranchi, Francesco Fonzino

“…<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-47037059-6390-41ef-c3a2-ab1f59f24270"><span>Although community engagement is increasingly supported by the evolution of technologies which are becoming more accessible to a larger number of people, democratised planning practices are yet struggling to emerge and be included in common practices. …”
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Educating for a plural democracy and citizenship – a report on practice by Elmarie Constandius, Sophia Rosochacki

“…It is argued that addressing social inequality and developing conditions for democratic flourishing is particularly important in the newly democratised South Africa. Consequently, particular attention is paid to the South African higher education context. …”
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