This is a non-exhaustive list of University of Bath academics from across our Faculties and School of Management who can provide analysis on aspects of the UK general election 2024 from multiple angles.
For further information, or for interview requests, please contact us via press@bath.ac.uk or call 01225-385798
British Politics
David (Dai) Moon: Brit Pol, parties, esp. Labour, devolution, Wales, campaigning, communication
Fran Amery: Brit Pol, esp gender
Peter Allen: Brit Pol, parties
Mike Bolt: Brit Pol, media, Brexit
Sophie Whiting: Brit Pol, especially Northern Ireland, gender, political violence, women
Yukteshwar Kumar: British Pol, China, India
Climate
Faisal Sharif: Energy policy, net zero, climate & energy justice, decarbonisation
Samuel Hampton: Climate policy
Sophia Hatzisavvidou: Climate politics
Lorraine Whitmarsh: Climate, transport, energy, psychology
Defence and Security
David Galbreath: Security in international relations, science, technology
Patrick Bury: Defence, national security, warfare, counter-terrorism
Paul Higate: Military, security
Education
Rachel Wilder: School Policy, school practices, sex education, mental health, gender-based violence
Matt Dickson: Education, grammar schools, social mobility
Economics
Alistair Hunt: Environment and climate change economics
Asgerdur Petursdotir: Monetary policy
Bruce Morley: Macroeconomics, monetary economics, finance
Chris Martin: Macroeconomics, finance and international finance, inflation, unemployment
Elenora Fichera: Health economics, family policies, maternity leave, shared parental leave
Javier Rivas: Political economics, voting issues, information aggregation, how voters thing working on voting issues and information aggregation
Joana Clifton Sprigg: Labour economist, shared parental leave, maternity policy, family policies, migration, Brexit, hate crime
Jonathan James: Health economics, education, labour
Health
Andrew Rowell: Tobacco
Lucy Maddox: Children and adolescent mental health, healthcare, wellbeing, burnout
Phil Chamberlain: Tobacco
The EU and Foreign Policy
Andre Barrinha: EU policies
Marica Gracia: Trade policy, trade agreements in the EU and UK
Milena Romano: EU policies
Women and Gender
Ana Weeks: Women in politics, gender, incentives, barriers, female engagement in voting and politics
Hilde Coffe: Women in politics, incentives, barriers, female engagement in voting and politics
Jennifer Thomson: Gender, devolution, foreign policy
Kaitlin Senk: Women’s representation and political polarization
Susan Milner: Gender, equality, employment policy, social policy, households
Miscellaneous
Aurelien Mon: Far right
George Newth: Far right
Brad Evans: social affairs, regional disparity, unemployment, poverty, violence,
Matt Dickson: Education, grammar schools, social mobility
Neil Howard: Universal Basic Income, anti-poverty policy, international development policy
Tina Skinner: Disability policy
Touseef Mir: Electoral violence, Islamophobia, political conflicts, military occupations
Waradas Thiyagaraja: Xenophobia, LGBT, conflict, development, queer