Dr Ralph Scott

I’m a political scientist specialising in British politics and quantitative methods. I’m currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Politics in SPAIS.

I have previously held positions at Cardiff University and on the British Election Study at the University of Manchester, where I also received my PhD.

My fellowship research focuses on the effect of education on political attitudes and behaviour. Specifically, I am looking to both generalise the effect (how does it vary across time and contexts?) and unpick the mechanisms (how does education change someone’s political outlook?).

I also maintain research interests in political inequality (how disability affects partisan identity; the impact of voter ID legislation in Britain) and research methodology (using LLMs to code open response survey data).