Research
My research focuses on political economy, political behaviour and political parties in the UK and Europe. At the moment, I am mainly working on a book on the politics of welfare reforms in the UK since the 1980s, funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship: see here for more information on the project. I am also currently working on the political economy of housing policy and on the changing age structure of European societies. Past projects have examined measuring long-term ideological change in Europe, attitudes to redistribution and the welfare state, and the politics of class including the lack of working-class MPs in British politics.