Sir John Curtice

Professor Sir John Curtice is Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University, and Senior Fellow, National/Scottish Centre for Social Research and the ESRC’s ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’ initiative. He has written extensively about voting behaviour in elections and referendums in the UK, as well as on Scottish and British political and social attitudes more generally. He has been a co-editor of the National Centre’s annual British Social Attitudes reports series for over thirty years, a co-director of the Scottish Social Attitudes series since 1999, and is a regular contributor to Scottish, British and international media coverage of politics in the UK.

Sir John Curtice
Professor of Politics
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