I am a lecturer in Comparative Politics and the topics I have taught include democratisation, nationalism and state-building in a comparative perspective. In terms of research, my main interests are: comparative democratisation; European party systems and voter allignments in an age of globalisation; the use of online voting guidance tools (also known as Voting Advice Applications or VAAs) and their exploitation for research purposes; and politics and society the former Soviet Union. I have a grounding both in qualitative research methods and in some quantitative methods; in terms of the latter, I have experience using psychometric techniques (factor analysis and Mokken Scale Analysis) for analysing survey data.
I am also a founding member of the Preference Matcher consortium (www.preferencematcher.org), which unites academics from a number of European universities and has deployed VAAs in more than thirty countries in Europe and beyond.