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Michael is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science, supervised by Prof. Ben Lauderdale, Dr Jack Blumenau and Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya.
Biography
Michael is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science, supervised by Prof. Ben Lauderdale, Dr Jack Blumenau and Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya. He holds an MSc in Political Science and Political Economy from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Durham University. Prior to starting his PhD, he worked in the UK Treasury as a policy advisor in the areas of industrial policy (2018-20) and pensions tax (2020-21).
PhD title and short abstract
Title: How and When Do Protests Change Public Discourse and Public Opinion?
Short abstract: This project aims to advance our understanding of the conditions under which protests can successfully gain attention, reframe public debate, and shape public opinion, using computational text analysis of social media and news data, as well as survey experiment methods.
Research Interests
Protests and social movements, public discourse, public opinion, agenda-setting, quantitative methods, natural language processing.
Research groups
- Comparative Politics, Political Economy and Political Behaviour
- Conflict and Change
Teaching Summary
2020/21: Principles of Economics (KCL Political Economy)
2022/23: Causal Analysis (UCL Political Science)
2023: Introduction to Data Science and Machine Learning (LSE Summer school)
2023/24: Democracy and Authoritarianism (UCL Political Science)
2024/25: Causal Analysis (UCL Political Science)