Most of my research relates to elections and public opinion in one way or another. 

I am currently the co-director of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded British Election Study – a survey research project that has been running in one form or another since the mid-1960s – on which I have worked since 2015. We track public opinion and voting behaviour in British elections and try to explain changes in party support and electoral alignments. In 2023 we were awarded the inaugural Pippa Norris Prize from the Political Studies Association for a research team that has made an outstanding contribution to advancing knowledge in political studies.

I also work on another ESRC funded project – Democracy and Social Change in Britain, 1851-2024 – which combines historical election results and redistricted census data to look at the relationship between social change and elections in Britain over the long term. 

As well as these two ESRC funded projects, I also work on a variety of things to do with polling and survey research, electoral registration and voter ID, political psychology, and quantitative methods. I used to work on the comparative electoral politics of European integration, which was the subject of my graduate research. 
  
You can find out more about me on my personal website.