Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor in Comparative European Politics at University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations, and a member of the Connected Politics Lab. I study political parties, representation, elections and text-as-data methods.
I am the Principal Investigator of the CONSTRUCT project, which investigates whether, through their communication with voters, political parties and politicians actually construct the identities of the social groups they represent, rather than simply appealing to existing identities or groups (2025–2029).
I received my PhD in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2021.
In 2026 I was a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, Department of Political Science, on the TwiceAsGood project. From 2023 to 2025 I held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where I worked on the GAPREP project investigating the relationship between group appeals and political representation.
From 2021 to 2023 I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations, working with WP6 of the Horizon2020 Observatory of Political Texts in European Democracies—A European Research Infrastructure (OPTED) Project.
My research focuses on comparative European party politics, group appeals, political representation, intra-party candidate selection, and text-as-data, motivated by questions of the representative relationship between political parties and voters as a core aspect of modern democracies. Focusing on how political parties as collective bodies of representation go about shaping their relationship with society, I use computational text analysis methods to examine patterns of group-based appeals in parties’ election materials over time and across countries.
Here you can find more about my research, the GAPREP project, publications and data.
Here you can also find my Google Scholar profile, ORCID and GitHub pages.