🚨 New paper with Maria Grasso on generational shifts in political values. Despite talk of rising age polarisation, we show that gaps in attitudes are stable or even narrowing. Economic attitudes move in cycles, while social values have become more liberal – mainly due to generational replacement.

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What is the liberalizing potential of higher education? In this @bjsociology.bsky.social research, we show substantial variation in the association between field of study and anti-immigrant sentiment — a pattern most pronounced among those with tertiary degrees doi.org/10.1111/1468...

From today onwards, you can find me as a Lecturer in Politics at the beautiful University of Exeter @exeterspspa.bsky.social! Couldn't be a better time to start with EPOP coming up. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and (hopefully!) making some new ones later this week!

The London Mayoralty is 25 this year. As a birthday present, the Mile End Institute asked Londoners whether they feel politically empowered. In short, no. But why? For @theconversation.com, @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I dig into the clashing explanations. theconversation.com/its-25-years...

After a fantastic few years, I'll soon be leaving @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social and the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social. I've been surrounded by inspiring and generous colleagues, had lots of time and freedom to pursue my own research agenda, and had the pleasure of running the Polling London project.

My most recent interview for the Dods Research Interview series is out, talking to @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social of @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social www.dodspoliticalintelligence.com/resources/in...

He always looks so worried. Perhaps he should be. Did this for The Standard off the back of @mileendinstitute.bsky.social's fab London polling.

New @mileendinstitute.bsky.social and @savanta.bsky.social polling out today shows that a quarter of Londoners who voted Labour in the 2024 GE would not do so again if there was a GE tomorrow - with Labour losing voters to parties on the right and left in roughly equal measure in the capital

New piece by @zoecrowther.bsky.social in @politicshome.bsky.social covering some of our ongoing research (w/ @karlpike.bsky.social @philipjcowley.bsky.social) into voters' time horizons and its implications for the current UK government's "politics of patience": www.politicshome.com/news/article...

What better way to spend this sunny day than signing up to hear @timbale.bsky.social, @rmcunliffe.bsky.social and me discussing the state of the Conservative Party this coming Monday? www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/events/m...

I may mention this, occasionally, over the next few months.

NEW - Family Matters: How Concerns about the Financial Wellbeing of Young Relatives Shape the Political Preferences of Older Adults - cup.org/3Gny1bz - @zackgp94.bsky.social, @profjanegreen.bsky.social & Geoffrey Evans #OpenAccess

In the latest issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social, my article with Jonne Kamphorst in which we propose that educationally homogeneous social networks contribute to the stabilization of political conflict on the cultural dimension. A short thread on the main findings: Link: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

NEW - Does the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain - cup.org/42JWcZl - Justin Robinson, @pavlosvas1.bsky.social & @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social #OpenAccess

New paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social w/ @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jwfurlong.bsky.social What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

4/6 🧵 In @thejop.bsky.social‬ @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com do a meta-analysis of role of candidate education in conjoint experiments. More educated candidates preferred by all, but more so by more educated respondents, suggesting a possible in-group bias https://doi.org/pft8

A bump for this in case you missed it the other week... Any suggestions for my and @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social's meta-analysis much appreciated!

📣 CALLING ALL QUANT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS! 📣 Do you know of causally identified research that estimates the effect of higher education on political attitudes? @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I are currently working on a meta-analysis on this question and we need your help!

My article with @robjohns75.bsky.social, "Hope, Optimism, and Expectations for the Political Future", is now out open access at @polbehavior.bsky.social. It's about the psychology of expecting good things to happen in politics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Do we systematically prefer educated candidates? Or do educational groups select in ways that reward their own? This article by @turnbulldugarte.com and I suggests the answers are yes, and yes - but only for the graduate group. Huge thanks to all who shared their data with us!

🚨 EPOP 2025 Call for papers now open! 🚨 Please fill out this form before the end of April to submit your paper proposal forms.office.com/e/4wBNMq4qwi Accepting presentations on all aspects of elections, public opinion and parties using all methods.

The poisoning of minds through Higher Education, huh? www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

Our paper on global trends in trust is online! Led by @viktorv.bsky.social we use >3k surveys from ~50 projects in 143 countries, the paper provides a framework for understanding changes in trust and: (1) Trust in representative institutions is in decline (2) but stable in implementing institutions

What do you think the government's average *actual* majority in the House of Commons has been...? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Happy to share first paper of 2025! With @danjdevine.bsky.social we show that there are sig. distinctions in how resps. derive the class of MPs compared to regular folks We look at this in a conjoint that also randomized resps. into different information environments doi.org/10.1080/0140...

My new article at JEPOP is out! In it, I examine what the differences are between men and women in their political discussants by age group. I find that there are differences between men and women in who they discuss politics with and argue this can help us to better understand the gender gap(s).

Latest piece for the House Magazine - looking at who thinks it's OK to abuse politicians. www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

Our latest #PollingLondon survey finds that over a quarter of Londoners who voted #Labour at #GeneralElection2024 say they regret it. Find out more about this dramatic drop in the #LabourParty's support in #London in @theldnstandard.bsky.social⬇️ www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "Does disability affect support for political parties?" Just published in Electoral Studies, co-authored with Melanie Jones. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 👇

Excited to see my article 'Balancing Politics and Parenthood' in EJPR is out. In a UK study, I find that the public do not punish MPs for taking parental leave. In fact, for women there is some electoral advantage. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Views on what makes a good leader according to Tory members aren't necessarily shared by the public as a whole. More from the Party Members Project's post election survey. politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

I discuss why graduates are more socially liberal in my first post for @ukandeu.bsky.social, drawing on my recent research in Political Studies: ukandeu.ac.uk/why-are-grad...

Does anyone know where I can find regional vote share estimates from the 2024 general election?

Does studying at university make individuals less Eurosceptic? 💥📊 In a NEW piece @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social & Andrew McNeil show that while university study does little to decrease Euroscepticism in the short-run it has a substantial effect in the long-run. ukandeu.ac.uk/university-s...

Do we systematically prefer educated candidates? Or do educational groups select in ways that reward their own? A note at @thejop.bsky.social by @turnbulldugarte.bsky.social and I suggests the answers are yes, and yes – but only for the graduate group. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Does studying at university make individuals less Eurosceptic? A new study in the EJPR by Andrew McNeil and I finds that while university study does little to decrease Euroscepticism in the short-run, it has substantial long-run effects. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New blog! What affects Londoners’ wellbeing, and what can the answers tell us about local and national policy for wellbeing? By @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social and Josh Cottell at Centre for London

Delighted to be published in The English Historical Review today! My piece narrates the rise and fall of the UK Labour Party's half-forgotten 1980s journal 'New Socialist', and uses it to probe the sources we use as scholars. (1/3) academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Absolutely delighted to see this paper conditionally accepted @thejop.bsky.social and to hear @turnbulldugarte.bsky.social still has such kind words to say about me after working together on several papers this year!

Really great to see such extensive coverage of the Mile End Institute's YouGov poll of Londoners, led by my fantastic colleague @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

New poll of London mayoral race by Mile End Institute (@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social) puts Sadiq Khan ahead of nearest rival by 50% to 25%.

Also featuring analysis from @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social

Really glad to see the publication of the Mile End Institute's new pamphlet 'Governing in Hard Times: Urgent Questions for the Centre Left.' Just in time for Labour's Conference. To read the pamphlet: www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/news-and...