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Dr Tom O'Grady
Room: 2.06, 36-38 Gordon Square
Tel: 020 7679 8660 (ext. 28660)
Email: t.o'grady@ucl.ac.uk
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Biography
I have been at UCL since 2017 as Lecturer and then Associate Professor. I am also affiliated with UCL’s Social Data Institute, where I direct a range of education programmes in data science including our innovative Social Data Science Programme for undergraduates. Before coming to UCL, I did my PhD in Political Science at MIT and worked as an economist at the Bank of England.
Research
My research focuses on political economy, public policy, political parties and political behaviour in the UK and Europe. My past work has examined long-term ideological change, attitudes to redistribution and the welfare state, and the politics of class, culminating in a recent book on the political economy of British welfare reforms: "The Transformation of British Welfare Policy". I am currently working on a new project on the politics of crime and punishment in the UK.
Publications
- Books
- O’Grady, T. (2022) The Transformation of British Welfare Policy: Politics, Discourse and Public Opinion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Journal articles
- O’Grady, T. and A. Weidemann (2023). “How the Geographic Clustering of Young and Highly-Educated Voters Undermines Redistributive Politics.” Journal of Politics, forthcoming.
- O’Grady, T. (2022) ‘ls Ideological Polarisation by Age Group Growing in Europe?’, European Journal of Political Research, online early view.
- Langsæther, P. E., Evans, G. and O’Grady, T. (2021) ‘Explaining the Relationship Between Class Position and Political Preferences: A Long-Term Panel Analysis of Intra-Generational Class Mobility’, British Journal of Political Science, 52(2), pp. 958–967.
- O’Grady, T. and Abou-Chadi, T. (2019) ‘Not so Responsive After All: European Parties do not Respond to Public Opinion Shifts across Multiple Issue Dimensions’, Research and Politics, 6(4).
- O’Grady, T. (2017) ‘How do Economic Circumstances Determine Preferences? Evidence From Long-Run Panel Data’, British Journal of Political Science, 49(4), pp. 1381–1406.
- Caughey, D., O’Grady, T. and Warshaw, C. (2019) ‘Policy Ideology in European Mass Publics: 1981-2016’, American Political Science Review, 113(3), pp. 674–693.
- O’Grady, T. (2018) ‘Careerists versus Coal-Miners: Welfare Reforms and the Substantive Representation of Social Groups in the British Labour Party’, Comparative Political Studies, 52(4), pp. 544–578.
- Slapin, J., Kirkland, J., Lazzaro, J., Leslie, P. and O’Grady, T. (2017) ‘Ideology, Grandstanding, and Strategic Party Disloyalty in the British Parliament’, American Political Science Review, 112(1), pp. 15–30.
Teaching
I teach courses on data science (as part of the cross-departmental Social Data Science Programme) as well as political economy and political behaviour.