• Academic Advisory Board

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    Professor Kate Dommett

    Kate is Professor of Digital Politics in the Department of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on digital technology and democratic politics, with a particular focus on data use, election campaigns and regulation. She is interested in how politics is being changed by the uptake of digital technology, and how democratic institutions are adapting to use online affordances. Her recent research has looked at the use of personal data for political campaigning, political advertising, and the regulation of digital politics. Previously, Kate's work concerned political parties and how they are viewed by the public.

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    Professor Maria Sobolewska

    Maria is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Manchester and works on the political integration and representation of ethnic minorities in Britain and, from a comparative perspective, on public perceptions of ethnicity, immigrants and integration. She is interested in public opinion, elections, political representation and participation and issues of measurement and she specialises in the issues of ethnicity, religion and race relations. Maria primarily uses quantitative data analysis methods in her work, though she does have some projects using qualitative approaches. Maria's last book “Brexitland” with Prof Rob Ford won the 2022 WJM Mackenzie Prize for the best book published in political science from the Political Science Association.

     

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    Professor Caitlin Milazzo

    Caitlin is a Professor of Politics and Head of the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. Her current research focuses on the nature of campaign messaging and the behaviour of political candidates and parties in British general elections. Caitlin started the British Election Leaflet Project in 2014 with the goal of creating an innovative dataset of content-coded general election communications. The current iteration of the dataset, which includes more 8,600 leaflets, represents the largest collection of British election communications to date and provides a new and exciting avenue for exploring variation in the campaign behaviour of parties and their candidates. Her research sheds light on how political elites tailor their messaging depending on the local/national context and their own personal characteristics.

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    Dr Lee de Wit

    Lee is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. His interests include the psychological predictors of attitudes towards immigration, using data driven techniques to understand the structure of political beliefs, psychological and cognitive characteristics of swing voters and perceptions of political bias. Previously, Lee was a Senior Teaching Fellow at University College London, and the Academic Director for Psychology at the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge.

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    Dr Florian Foos

    Florian is an Associate Professor in Political Behaviour in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. He studies political campaigns using randomized field experiments that are conducted with partner organisations, such as political parties and other campaign organisations. His research aim is to identify the causal effects of formal and informal interactions between citizens, politicians and campaign workers on electoral mobilization, opinion change and political activism. In particular, he is interested in social mobilisation and persuasion between co-partisans and supporters of opposing parties or causes. Throughout his research, he applies experimental and quasi-experimental methods for causal inference.

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    Dr James Weinberg

    Dr James Weinberg is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield with an international reputation when researching, writing and presenting on specialist topics in the field of political behaviour. Rather than reviewing what happens in politics (e.g. who wins an election) or how it happens (e.g. who votes for whom), James interrogates why it happens by studying the psychology of politics at the micro level (e.g. the personality of politicians), the meso level (e.g. the ideological and moral foundations of political parties), and the macro level (e.g. mass racism and prejudice, media effects).

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    Dr Dan Devine

    Dan is an Associate Professor of Public Opinion and Behaviour at the University of Southampton. His research is in the broad fields of public opinion, political behaviour, and political psychology. He is primarily interested in how people develop attitudes towards their political systems - such as democratic attitudes, political trust, democratic satisfaction - and the consequences these attitudes have for policy preferences and political behaviour. His work ties these to issues of representation, particularly in terms of (social) class, and he has a particular interest in redistribution and welfare policy. Previously, his focus was on issues of European integration and globalisation, where he still does some work.

  • Campaign Lab has recently established a scientific advisory group composed of leading academics at Sheffield, Manchester, Cambridge, Southampton, Nottingham and LSE. The group was created to offer academic oversight and scientific expertise to ensure rigor and promote high standards in the conduct of Campaign Lab’s work. This will involve activities such as advising on the design of field experiments, sharing the findings of the latest academic work and helping to develop standards for research and data presentation. These activities are designed to support Campaign Lab in delivering high quality research on how to boost democratic participation and engagement. Projects the group advises on would either openly publish results, or where that is not possible, openly publish insights from those results, so that they are available to anyone with an interest in evidence based campaigning. All members of the advisory group operate on a non-partisan basis and are working to uphold scientific standards rather than a particular partisan agenda. The group meets quarterly. Anyone interested in finding out more about this group or who would be keen to join should contact Douglas Scott, Campaign Lab’s research manager, on douglas@campaignlab.uk.

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