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

My research interests are broad - I am interested in all aspects of British politics, party politics and electoral behaviour.

My main focus is to complete an undergraduate textbook on local government, titled Understanding UK Local Government.

I am also interested in 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 that piques my interest, typically involving voting behaviour and Liverpool’s political history. I am also the author of Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool?, published by Liverpool University Press, and available as a hardback (£28) or an ebook (free).

I am 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 (I’m aiming to complete my second Ironman in September 2023), doing a spot of parkrun tourism, staying up too late making maps, or abusing the spirit of the Pizza Hut buffet.