About

I am a Professor of Political Economy at the Department Political Science, University College London.

With some fabulous colleagues, I am starting a new MSc in Political Economy, with our first cohort joining in September 2026. Please consider applying!

I study a range of issues falling within comparative politics, public policy, and comparative political economy, where my focus is on industrialised democracies. A selection of my research papers and my cv are available on this site.

Since September 2025, I have served as Deputy Head of Department for Education, with particular responsibilities for education programme strategy. For the three years prior to that, I served as my department’s Director of Education, with responsibilities covering all aspects of our educational and student experience activities. I arrived at UCL in 2014 to take up the role of founding Programme Director for the BSc in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE).

Between January 2011 and June 2014, I was an Ussher Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Political Science at Trinity College, Dublin.

Before moving to Dublin, I was a doctoral (DPhil) student in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford.