Hi! I’m David, a lecturer in politics at the University of Liverpool.

My research interests are broad, but typically centre around the concept of identity and its influence on voting behaviour. This takes two main forms:

1. Exploring which local (sub-national) identities are politically salient, and how this salience plays out with regard to voting behaviour.

2. Exploring the voting behaviour of elected parliamentarians, as well as the broader reasons why they vote the way they do.

And then there’s anything else which piques my interest, typically involving voting behaviour and Liverpool’s political history.

I am also involved in building a database of local election results from across Merseyside, imaginatively called the Merseyside Local Election Results Project.

In my spare time I’m usually found triathlon training (my 2022 goal is to complete Ironman UK in early July), watching reruns of Friends on Netflix, or learning Spanish on Duolingo.