I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantitative Methods in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics. I am also affiliated with the Data Science Institute, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and the Public Opinion Analytics Lab. I completed my PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2024.
My research investigates how place-based distributional conflicts over resources, services, and the costs of policy shape political behaviour. A unifying thread across my work is the question of how political actors provide a lens through which the public understands and supports the costs of social change. Oftentimes those costs, whether concentrated locally or distributed unequally across different social groups, generate grievances that can be exploited by anti-establishment parties, which I demonstrate in various projects. While my work spans Europe and North America, many of my current projects are grounded in the contemporary politics of the United Kingdom.
Research methods are a big part of my research identity. My work is methodologically pluralistic, and I use a variety of causal inference methods, including experimental and quasi-experimental designs, to identify the causal effects of policy shocks and social change on political behaviour. I also use computational methods, including language models and machine learning, to analyze political communication data and to develop new tools for measuring political attitudes and behavior. You can find some of the language models I’ve trained on Hugging Face.
My work is forthcoming or has been published in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Political Communication, Perspectives on Politics, and the Journal of European Public Policy. For a complete list, see my Research page or Google Scholar. My research has also been covered in The Economist, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Forbes, El País, and Internazionale, and was recently cited in a UN General Assembly report on inequality and right-wing populism.
My research has been generously supported by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust and LSE. I also co-organise the LSE Political Behaviour and Methodology Work-in-Progress Seminar and, starting in 2026, the inaugural LSE Climate and Political Behaviour Workshop. At LSE, I teach courses on research design, causal inference, data science applications, and applied language models. I also lead PhD workshops on computational methods. See my Teaching page for materials and syllabi.
My CV is available here.