Centre Members
Staff
Nick Allen
Professor of Politics
- British cabinet government
- politicians’ ethics
- electoral and party politics
Michael Bankole
Lecturer in Politics
- Political representation
- Racism
- British electoral politics
Giacomo Benedetto
Reader in Politics
- European Union budgets
- Social democracy
- Comparative European politics
Ursula Hackett
Reader in Politics
- American political development
- education policy
- politics of public policy
Chris Hanretty
Professor of Politics
- substantive representation
- local public opinion
- judicial behaviour
Oliver Heath
Professor of Politics
- voting behaviour
- political representation
- Indian electoral politics
Andrew Hunter
Research Fellow, Department of Psychology
- comparative politics
- political psychology
- misinformation
Chris Prosser
Senior Lecturer in Politics
- survey methodology
- electoral participation
- political psychology
Jennifer M. Piscopo
Professor of Gender and Politics
- gender politics
- legislative politics
- Latin America
James Sloam
Professor of Politics
- youth politics
- electoral participation
- environmental politics
Kaat Smets
Reader in Politics (Quantitative Methods)
- electoral participation
- age differences in political behaviour
- attitude change
Joost van Spanje
Professor of Politics
- new parties
- militant democracy
- political speech
Research students
Irene Arahal Moreno
PHD student
Diana Bartmann
PhD student
Olaf Borghi
PHD student
Marta Fatica
MPhil student
Vasil Lazarov
PhD student
Jama Yusuf
PhD student
Former members
Sarah Childs
Previously a centre member between 2020 and 2022, most recently as Professor of Politics and Gender
Licia Cianetti
Previously a centre member between 2016 and 2021, most recently as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Sofia Collignon
Previously a centre member between 2018 and 2022, most recently as Lecturer in Political Communication
Dishil Shrimankar
Previously a centre member between 2020 and 2022, most recently as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Laura Serra
Previously a centre member between 2018 and 2023, most recently as Lecturer in Politics and Criminology
Zhamilya Mukasheva
Previously a centre member between 2018 and 2023, most recently as PhD student
Arvind Kumar
Previously a centre member between 2019 and 2024, most recently as PhD student
Nick Hatton
Previously a centre member between 2018 and 2023, most recently as PhD student
Tom Barton
Previously a centre member between 2019 and 2024, most recently as PhD student
Miriam Sorace
Previously a centre member between 2021 and 2023, most recently as Lecturer in Public Opinion
Luke Coughlan
Previously a centre member between 2018 and 2024, most recently as PhD student
Gillian Griffiths-Jones
Previously a centre member between 2016 and 2023, most recently as PhD student
Matt Polacko
Previously a centre member between 2017 and 2021, most recently as PhD student
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