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Anja Neundorf is a Professor of Politics and Research Methods at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. She leads a five-year ERC Consolidator Grant project titled 'Democracy under Threat: How Education can Save it' (DEMED), which began in September 2020. Previously, she held positions at the University of Nottingham (2013-2019) and completed a Post-doctoral Prize Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2010-2012). She received her PhD from the University of Essex in 2010.
Professor Neundorf's research applies advanced statistical methods to test and refine theories of political socialization, political attitudes, and electoral choice. Her work can be grouped into three broad themes: (1) Support for Democracies and Autocracies, focusing on how individuals form attitudes toward different political regimes and how (school and media) indoctrination and civic education affect democratic support; (2) Authoritarian Legacies and democratic transitioning, examining how past authoritarian regimes influence current democratic attitudes; and (3) Political Socialization, investigating how political attitudes originate through socialization processes across age and generational cohorts.
Her recent publications demonstrate a strong emphasis on experimental methods to study civic education interventions, democratic resilience against authoritarian tendencies, and the effects of political socialization. She frequently employs cross-national comparative designs, with research spanning diverse political contexts from established democracies to new democracies and authoritarian regimes. Her methodological expertise includes survey experiments, advanced statistical modeling, and innovative data collection techniques using digital platforms.
Among her notable achievements are securing substantial research funding including an ERC Consolidator Grant worth nearly 2 million Euros, multiple British Academy and ESRC grants, and funding from the Norwegian Research Council and Volkswagen Stiftung. She serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals including Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Electoral Studies.
Professor Neundorf actively supervises undergraduate and postgraduate theses in political behavior, public opinion, young people and politics, democratization, authoritarian regimes, and civic education. She has taught courses on Research Design and Authoritarianism at the University of Glasgow. Her research group has produced numerous high-impact publications in top political science journals, with a particular focus on how education can strengthen democratic resilience against authoritarian threats.
