About me

Welcome! I recently completed my PhD in Political Science at the Australian National University, specialising in political behaviour.

My PhD research focused on using survey experiments and meta-analytic methods to understand why voters in democracies sometimes support or tolerate illiberal and undemocratic politicians, how they might be persuaded to vote pro-democratically, and which democracies are most at risk of democratic decline. I investigated how providing voters with information about politicians’ undemocratic positions affects their electoral choices in newer and long-standing democracies.1

Beyond political behaviour, I have a strong interest in research credibility and behavioural public policy. My work on data availability and research transparency in approximately 20,000 quantitative political science and international relations publications was published by Royal Society Open Science in 2024. I have also served as a coauthor and statistical analyst on several large-scale research collaborations examining the credibility of social scientific claims, which include the Center for Open Science’s SCORE project (Multi100), published in Nature, and RWI Essen’s Robustness and Replicability in Economics (R2E) project – funded by Open Philanthropy.2

While in Kazakhstan, my collaboration with the Trust in Science and Science-related Populism (TISP) cross-national, Many Labs project, whose main findings have been published in Nature Human Behaviour, prompted my colleagues and I to investigate the efficacy of MMR vaccine communication strategies in Kazakhstan’s low scientific trust environment.3

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Footnotes

  1. To read more about my work on voter tolerance for undemocratic political behaviour you can access my PsyArXiv preprint. A more updated version is forthcoming with Marc Jacob (see Research). An online seminar hosted by the University of Sydney’s Southeast Asia Centre, where I discuss the 2022 Philippines survey experimental results and implications for their democratic stability, can be found on Youtube.↩︎

  2. Open Philanthropy is now known as Coefficient Giving.↩︎

  3. Kazakhstan’s low scientific trust, as shown in the TISP data, alongside repeated measles outbreaks, motivated our work.↩︎