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Roula Nezi is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Surrey and Director of Postgraduate Research. She holds a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Her research focuses on political behavior, public opinion dynamics, electoral systems, and quantitative methods. Nezi leads the POLGEN project examining authoritarian attitudes in European youth, part of the SOLIKRIS initiative hosted by GESIS, WZB, and Heidelberg University. Her work bridges cultural divides and affective polarization, particularly in Greece and comparative contexts.
Key roles include Trustee of the UK Political Studies Association (focusing on EDI) and steering committee member for the ECPR Standing Group on Public Opinion. She has received prestigious awards: 2020 Political Science Association Innovation Prize for quantitative teaching and Early Career Teacher of the Year (FASS). Her teaching spans research methods, electoral systems, and applied political analysis.
- Research Interests: Political attitudes, economic voting, survey experiments, Bayesian analysis.
- Current Projects: POLGEN (authoritarian attitudes in Europe), affective polarization's cultural impacts.
- Publications: Over 20 peer-reviewed articles in Q1 journals, including studies on Greece's post-crisis electoral behavior and European citizenship boundaries.
- Supervision: Open to PhD candidates exploring voting behavior, political parties, and attitude formation.
- Grants: £BA/Leverhulme funding for cultural polarization research (2023-2024).
Nezi's work integrates methodological innovation with societal challenges, emphasizing democratic accountability and polarization's societal consequences.
