RESEARCH
My current research focuses on the nature of campaign messaging and the behaviour of political candidates and parties in British general elections.
I 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. My research sheds light on how political elites tailor their messaging depending on the local/national context and their own personal characteristics.
In 2020, I developed the citizen science project, OpenElections, with Siim Trumm and Joshua Townsley, which allows voters to track and analyse election communications from political candidates.
I 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. My research sheds light on how political elites tailor their messaging depending on the local/national context and their own personal characteristics.
In 2020, I developed the citizen science project, OpenElections, with Siim Trumm and Joshua Townsley, which allows voters to track and analyse election communications from political candidates.
