Our People
Directors
Prof Will Jennings
Co-director
Overseeing the impact and public engagement theme
Public Policy, Public Opinion, Polling
Prof Sara Hobolt
Co-director
Overseeing the research excellence theme
Elections, Referendums, Public Opinion, European Union Politics
Dr Miriam Sorace
Co-director
Overseeing the innovation and training theme
Electoral Behaviour, Public Opinion; Political Campaigns; European Politics
Leadership
Dr Katharina Lawall
Academic Events Unit Lead
Political Behaviour, Gender and Politics, Polarization, Emotions, Radical Right, Experiments
Prof Jason Reifler
Grant Unit Lead
Public Opinion, Political Behavior, and Misinformation
Dr Daniel Devine
Executive/Academic Programmes Unit Lead
Public Opinion, Voting Behaviour, Political Psychology
Prof Robert Johns
Media Unit Lead
Questionnaire design and measurement of public opinion; survey experiments; attitudes towards human rights; 'post-truth' and public opinion
Dr Marta Antonetti
Consultancy/contracts Unit Lead
Democratic Values, Political Participation, Political leaders and Campaigns, Experimental Methods, Survey Designs
Members
Prof. Gabriele Durrant
Survey Methods, Survey Data Collection, Data Quality, Statistical Modelling
Prof. Kenneth Benoit
Computational social science, text analysis, social media, LLMs
Prof Patrick Sturgis
Survey and Statistical Methods, Understanding Social and Political Behaviour
Prof Tereza Capelos
Grievance Politics, Resentful Emotionality, Reactionary Orientations, Anti-democratic and Authoritarian Political Preferences
Dr Victor Araújo
The Americas (US and LA), Political Polarization, Populism, Persuasion, Identity Politics, Survey methodology and field experiments
Dr Matthias Kroenke
Comparative Politics, Political Behavior, Africa, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods,
Dr Thomas Robinson
Money in Politics, Voting Behaviour, and Methodological issues in experimental design and machine learning
Dr Ben Tappin
Technology, Persuasive Communication, and Attitude and Behaviour Change
Dr Florian Foos
Randomized Experiments, Field Experiments, Election campaigns, Social Media
Dr Zach Dickson
US and UK politics, Elites, Representation and Public Opinion using Causal Inference and Computational Methods
Dr Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
experimental methods, political sociology, LGBTQ+ politics
Dr Jessica Smith
Political behaviour and gender-based stereotyping, Executive Politics, British Politics
Dr Vanessa Cheng-Matsuno
Latin American politics, field and survey experiments, political elites, public policy, social mobilisation
Dr. Lauren Leek
Political Economy, Public Policy, Public Opinion using Causal Inference and Computational Methods
Ben Ginsburg Hix
Survey Methods and Experiments, Electoral Campaigns, Causal Inference and Computational Methods, and Radical Right Voting
Lennard Metson
Campaigns, Social Influence, Political Technology, Persuasion and Mobilisation, RCTs, and Computational Methods
Elena Pro
Political Behaviour and Psychology, Comparative Politics, Causal Inference and Mixed Methods