Professor Will Jennings

Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at University of Southampton

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Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Southampton

As a professor in the Department of Politics & International Relations, Will's research is concerned with questions relating to public policy and political behaviour – such as how issues get onto the policy agenda, how people form their vote preferences over time (and how polls do or don’t line up with the eventual outcome as election day approaches), how voters judge the competence of parties, and why major projects and sports events go over budget so often.

Previously he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2004. His research is concerned with questions relating to public policy and political behaviour. He has written extensively on agenda-setting, public opinion, electoral behaviour, political parties, and the governance of mega-projects and mega-events. He is a methodological pluralist, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, but specialise in time series analysis.