Professor Macintosh’s work in digital governance, previously at Napier University and now Leeds, is both applied and conceptual; the aim has been not simply to develop applications using new media, but to understand their role in the complex infrastructures that support e-government. She has explored the role of ontologies and natural language processing in public administration through a number of funded projects. She has also been responsible for the development of a number of tools (e-petitioner; e-consultant; Highland Youth Voice) to support e-participation - ePetitioner being used by the Scottish Parliament and the German Bundesstag. These tools have served as research instruments to see how groups and individuals appropriate such systems in different contexts. Her most recent work on argumentation visualization provides an orderly representation of the documentation that supports policy-making. The aim is to enhance citizens’ understanding of political decision-making by ‘viewing’ the inputs that shape policy Professor Macintosh has been an advisor on e-government and e-democracy issues to a number of national and regional governments (including the German Bundestag, the Canadian government, the Scottish Executive, and the state legislature of Queensland). She has also acted as a specialist advisor for the OECD, the UN and the Commonwealth Secretariat. She has acted for many years as an Expert Consultant on research policy for the EC and has delivered a number of keynote addresses to policy-making meetings in Europe, Australia and North America. She is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.