Anthony Kevins

Senior Lecturer
(Associate Professor)

Department of International Relations, Politics and History

Loughborough University

I’m a political scientist interested in the interplay between public opinion, policy-making processes, and government legislation.

Some questions I’ve explored in my research include: How can we best understand social care preferences? What factors shape attitudes toward the welfare state? And why do some citizens want certain groups to have more or less policy influence than others?

I’ve published around thirty peer-reviewed studies, and you can find my articles in high-impact journals such as Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, and West European Politics. My research has been awarded Best Article Prizes from Socio-Economic Review and Political Studies and discussed in media outlets such as The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, and Le Monde.

I also hold a five-year appointment to the UK Young Academy, and have more than a decade of teaching experience.

For more details, check out my full CV here.

Research Interests

Public Opinion
Representation
Inequality
Social Policy
Labour Market Vulnerability

Specialist Skills

Methods: Survey Design; Data Visualisation; Quantitative Data Analysis.
Software/Coding: Git; LaTeX; Markdown; Qualtrics; R; Stata; Visual Studio Code.
Foreign Languages: French (Full Professional Proficiency); Italian (Limited Working Proficiency).

About Me

I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies in Loughborough University’s School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

At Loughborough University, I lead the Political Communication Theme at the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture. I am also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and serve as Branch Secretary of Loughborough University and College Union.

I have previously been a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Utrecht University’s School of Governance, where I worked with Barbara Vis, and I held a 3-year Assistant Professorship in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in affiliation with the Universalism and the Welfare State research project).

My PhD is from McGill University’s Department of Political Science, where I was supervised by Stuart Soroka.