
Dr Ralph Scott
MA, MRes, PhD
Expertise
Current positions
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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Research interests
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).
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
The effect of higher education on political attitudes and behaviour
Principal Investigator
Description
I am investigating the effect of education on political attitudes and behaviour, through a research fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust. As part of this work, I plan to generalise…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/02/2024 to 31/01/2027
Publications
Selected publications
26/07/2024Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal?
Political studies
Do AIs know what the most important issue is?
Research & Politics
Does university make you more liberal?
Electoral Studies
Recent publications
01/04/2024Do AIs know what the most important issue is?
Research & Politics
Does Disability Affect Support For Political Parties?
Electoral Studies
Who lacks voter identification? The electoral implications of the Elections Act 2022
Parliamentary affairs
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal?
Political studies
Does university make you more liberal?
Electoral Studies