RECENT ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Distinguished Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Queens University, Canada | 2022-present |
(Full) Professor of Policy and Public Policy, University of East Anglia, UK | 2019-present |
Visiting Scholar, International IDEA, Sweden | 2020 |
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of East Anglia, UK | 2012-2019 |
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia | 2018 |
Lecturer in Politics, Swansea University, UK | 2008-2012 |
British Research Council Scholar, John Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA | 2007 |
EDUCATION
BA Politics, University of York, UK
MA Public Administration and Public Policy, University of York, UK
PhD, Politics, University of York, UK
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ACADEMY
Editor-in-Chief, Policy Studies 2019-present
Co-Director, Electoral Integrity Project 2021-present
Co-Convenor Electoral Management Network 2016-2021
Convenor, Political Leadership Group, Political Studies Association 2013-16
PUBLIC ENGAGAGEMENT AND IMPACT
- 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
- Senior Fellow to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Democratic Participation, 2015 – present
- Expert advisor to the Welsh government, January 2019-June 2019
- 10 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.
- 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.