Mariam Cook

My research looks at the application of Advanced Quantitative Methods to support scalable democratic participation and policy making that incorporates wellbeing and sustainability outcome tracking and goal setting. Methodologically I am applying Natural Language Processing (NLP), probabilistic and graph-based techniques in the development of a computational framework that spans argument mining, policy analysis and econometrics. My work is inspired by two normative drivers: strengthening democracy through increasing citizen agency, and supporting fairness and sustainability as per the ‘Beyond GDP’ agenda.