Lewis Hou (he/him)

Lewis Hou is founder and director of Science Ceilidh, an intermediary organisation supporting cultural and knowledge democracy in Scotland. 

He currently coordinates The Ideas Fund and Community Knowledge Matters supporting grassroots communities to directly be funded and lead participatory research on mental wellbeing, culture and climate change. He is a Fellow of the Young Academy of Scotland as well as one of the UK Creative Community Fellows and was recently awarded the Beetlestone Award for leadership in the science engagement field. He is also now undertaking an Engage Fellowship with the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement exploring systems change to support more diverse knowledge production.