Nicole Curato
Born
Nicola Paula Cayco Curato
EducationUniversity of the Philippines Diliman
University of Manchester
University of Birmingham
Occupation(s)Sociologist, educator, journalist

Nicola Paula Cayco Curato, also known as "Nicole Curato", is a Filipina sociologist best known for her academic work on deliberative democracy,[1][2] and her media work providing academic commentary on politics in the Philippines.[3]

Early life and education

She took her bachelor's degree of Sociology at University of the Philippines Diliman,[2] and her Master's and Doctoral Degrees in Sociology in the United Kingdom – the former at the University of Manchester, and the latter at the University of Birmingham.[2]

Academic work

Curato is the recipient of Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellowship at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. The award is funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC).[4]

She joined the Centre as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Australian National University in 2011 where she worked on an ARC linkage project on the Australian Citizens' Parliament with John Dryzek and Simon Niemeyer. Before moving to Australia, she was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of the Philippines-Diliman.

Her work has been published in academic journals including Qualitative Inquiry,[5] Policy Sciences,[6] Current Sociology,[7] European Political Science Review[8] and Acta Politica,[9] among others. Her recent work has examined the character of Rodrigo Duterte's populism.[10][11][12][13][14]

She also served as editor for several Special Issues of the Philippine Sociological Review.

Political commentary

In the Philippines, Curato is best known as a go-to analyst for television and web coverage of political affairs in the Philippines.[3] Among her more prominent appearances include her stint as post-debate panellist at the Manila/Vice-Presidential leg of the COMELEC-led PiliPinas Debates 2016, and her regular commentary for Rappler,[15][16] CNN Philippines[17][18] and Filipino Freethinkers.[19][20][21]

In 2013, she was awarded as one of the Philippines' Ten Outstanding Young Men/People for the field of sociology.[22]

See also

References

  1. ^ Hermosa, Nath. "Academia Profile". Pinoy Scientists. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "Profile: Nicole Curato" (PDF). The Conversation. The Conversation Media Group Ltd. 16 September 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  3. ^ a b Aguilera, John Paulo (11 April 2016). "Public Engagement CV" (PDF). FHM Philippines. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  4. ^ Macdonald, Emma (5 November 2014). "ARC funds Canberra universities research for $37m". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  5. ^ Curato, Nicole (25 July 2012). "Respondents as Interlocutors". Qualitative Inquiry. 18 (7): 571–582. doi:10.1177/1077800412450154. S2CID 145062771.
  6. ^ Curato, Nicole; Böker, Marit (16 December 2015). "Linking mini-publics to the deliberative system: a research agenda". Policy Sciences. 49 (2): 173–190. doi:10.1007/s11077-015-9238-5. ISSN 0032-2687. S2CID 254891365.
  7. ^ Curato, Nicole (5 July 2016). "'We haven't even buried the dead yet': Ethics of discursive contestation in a crisis situation". Current Sociology. 65 (7): 1010–1030. doi:10.1177/0011392116651662. S2CID 148082167.
  8. ^ Felicetti, Andrea; Niemeyer, Simon; Curato, Nicole (1 August 2016). "Improving deliberative participation: connecting mini-publics to deliberative systems". European Political Science Review. 8 (3): 427–448. doi:10.1017/S1755773915000119. ISSN 1755-7739. S2CID 154237596.
  9. ^ Curato, Nicole (28 September 2012). "A sequential analysis of democratic deliberation". Acta Politica. 47 (4): 423–442. doi:10.1057/ap.2012.15. ISSN 0001-6810. S2CID 256512740.[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ Curato, Nicole (1 January 2017). "Flirting with Authoritarian Fantasies? Rodrigo Duterte and the New Terms of Philippine Populism". Journal of Contemporary Asia. 47 (1): 142–153. doi:10.1080/00472336.2016.1239751. ISSN 0047-2336. S2CID 152278874.
  11. ^ Curato, Nicole (30 January 2017). "Politics of Anxiety, Politics of Hope: Penal Populism and Duterte's Rise to Power". Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs. 35 (3): 69–89. ISSN 1868-4882.
  12. ^ "Interrupting Rodrigo Duterte". Rappler. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  13. ^ Pilipinas Cnn News (5 October 2016), Duterte is not the first President to use gutter language. Duterte's narrative is "I will stand up f, retrieved 3 February 2017 ((citation)): |last= has generic name (help)
  14. ^ ABS-CBN News (19 September 2016), Of profanity and public trust: Why Duterte remains popular, retrieved 3 February 2017
  15. ^ Rappler (17 June 2016), INTERVIEW WITH NICOLE CURATO AND PATRICIA EVANGELISTA, retrieved 3 February 2017
  16. ^ Rappler (16 May 2013), #TalkThursday: Social trends in the 2013 elections, retrieved 3 February 2017
  17. ^ The Source: Nicole Curato, CNN Philippines, 6 October 2016, retrieved 3 February 2017
  18. ^ Pilipinas Cnn News (16 November 2016), Sociologist Nicole Curato: Fake news is not a new phenomenon, but it's been amplified by social medi, retrieved 3 February 2017 ((citation)): |last= has generic name (help)
  19. ^ Filipino Freethinkers (11 March 2016), Are Women Equal in the Philippines?, retrieved 3 February 2017
  20. ^ Filipino Freethinkers (23 October 2014), FF Podcast 54: Jennifer Laude was a Woman, retrieved 3 February 2017
  21. ^ Filipino Freethinkers (3 July 2015), Is Marriage Equality Really an LGBT Victory? [FF Podcast 77], retrieved 3 February 2017
  22. ^ "Rappler's Thought Leader Nicole Curato 2013 TOYM awardee". Rappler. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
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