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Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin

I am an Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. My research focuses on political representation, party competition, political communication, public opinion, and quantitative text analysis. My work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as the American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Political Communication, the European Journal of Political Research, and Political Science Research and Methods, among others.

I am a core member of the Connected_Politics Lab, co-author of the quanteda R package, and maintainer of the Irish Polling Indicator. I founded the Text and Policy Research Group, comprising three PhD students and two postdoctoral researchers. I have been selected as a member of the Young Academy Ireland.

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor, UCD