CV

Toby James CV September 2025 – webDownload

RECENT ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political science2025 -present
Distinguished Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Queens University, Canada2022-present
Co-Director Electoral Integrity Project2020-present
Editor in Chief, Policy Studies2019-present
(Full) Professor of Policy and Public Policy, University of East Anglia, UK2019-present
Visiting Scholar, International IDEA, Sweden2020
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of East Anglia, UK2012-2019
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia2018
Lecturer in Politics, Swansea University, UK2008-2012
British Research Council Scholar, John Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA2007

EDUCATION

  • BA Politics, University of York, UK
  • MA Public Administration and Public Policy, University of York, UK
  • PhD, Politics, University of York, UK

AWARDS

  • Winner, International Engagement Award, International Center for Parliamentary Studies, November 2023
  • Appointed as Distinguished Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Queens University, Canada, January 2022
  • Winner University of East Anglia award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Policy, January 2020
  • Runner-up, ESRC Impact award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Policy, June 2018
  • Runner-up, University of East Anglia award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Policy, November 2017

PUBLIC ENGAGAGEMENT AND IMPACT

  • 10 invited invitations to give oral evidence to UK Parliament parliamentary proceedings 2014-23 most recently: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee, September 2021; Joint Human Rights Select Committee, Spring 2021; Select Committee on Housing and Levelling Up, Spring 2023.
  • Senior Fellow to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Democratic Participation, 2015 – 2020
  • Expert advisor to the Welsh government, January 2019-June 2019
  • 28 submissions of written evidence to parliamentary proceedings, 2012-21

INDICATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS

  • UK Electoral Data, Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, £11,000, November 2021-November 2022 (PI)
  • Electoral Integrity Project, SSHRC Connection Grant, $191,000CAN, March 2021-March 2024 (co-PI)
  • Covid and Elections, ESRC Covid Rapid Response, £106,000, November 2020-November 2021 (PI)
  • Automatic Voter Registration, Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, £10,000, January-June 2000 (PI)
  • Electoral Integrity Project Senior Visiting Fellowship, University of Sydney $15,000AUS, Feb-June 2018 (PI).
  • Electoral Management, SSHRC Connection Grant, $14,000CAN, August 2018-March 2019 (co-PI)
  • Electoral Integrity Project Conference Grant, $4,000AUS, August 2018-March 2019 (PI).
  • UK Poll Worker Survey, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant, £10,000, August 2014-April 2016 (PI).
  • Performance Standards in Elections, Nuffield Foundation Small Research Grant, £14,000, Spring 2011 (PI).

INDICATIVE MEDIA ACTIVITIES 2019-22

Euro News, BBC Radio 1 FM, BBC Today Programme, CNN, Guardian, Independent, Telegraph, The Times, The Maker (Israel), Wired, Washington Post, Americas Quarterly, Times Radio.