General election 2024 academic experts

Academic experts available for general election 2024 media coverage
Academic experts available for general election 2024 media coverage

Across politics and policy, we have experts available who can help media by providing analysis on aspects of the UK general election from multiple angles


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