Peter Cruickshank joined the Centre for Social Informatics as a member of the International Teledemocracy Centre (ITC) and has been a lead researcher in several eparticipation projects (e.g. EuroPetition and eRepresentative) focusing on the links between citizens and their elected representatives.

Cruickshank recently led research into the use of Internet technologies by Community Councils in Scotland, and is currently a member of the team that is conducting market research for the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the project Training provision for the library, information and knowledge sector.

Cruickshank has a background in business, accountancy, IS Audit and information governance generally. He retains an active interest and delivers courses and lectures in these and related areas, and works with IIDI partners to develop and exploit social media tools. In addition to the projects listed below, Cruickshank also recently worked on:

• The RiLIES Projects looking at the barriers to impact of research on library and information science practitioners
• The Smart Cities project in conjunction with Prof Mark Deakin of the Centre for Learning Communities.

Cruickshank is on the Program Committee of the following conferences:

• International Conference on Electronic Democracy, EDem
• Conference for E-democracy, E-participation and E-voting, CeDem
• SocInfo, co-organized by IIASA (the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)