John Curtice

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John Curtice (2016)

Sir John Kevin Curtice FRSA FRSE FBA (born 10 December 1953)[1] is a British political scientist who is currently Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde[2] and Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Social Research.[3] He is particularly interested in electoral behaviour and researching political and social attitudes. He took a keen interest in the debate about Scottish independence.[4]

Early life[]

Curtice was born on 10 December 1953. He grew up in St Austell and was educated at Truro School[5] and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read politics, philosophy and economics, and later transferred to Nuffield College as a postgraduate.[6][7]

Commitments and positions[]

He serves as President of the British Polling Council, vice-chair of the Economic and Social Data Service's Advisory Committee and is a member of the editorial board of the , the Executive Committee of the British Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and the Policy Advisory Committee of the Institute for Public Policy Research.[2] He was formerly a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and a member of the steering committee of the .[2]

Curtice has frequently appeared on the BBC during broadcast coverage of general elections in the United Kingdom, giving his accurate predictions of the results in 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2017.[8] He has picked up a strong following on social media, and was mentioned frequently on Twitter during the 2017 election, though he shuns this attention, adding "I've no wish to become a media celebrity".[9]

Awards and honours[]

Curtice was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1992 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004.[2] In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[10] Curtice was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to the Social Sciences and Politics.[11]

Personal life[]

Curtice is married to a medical sociologist with one daughter.[6]

Books[]

  • British Social Attitudes: the 24th report (ed. with A. Park, K. Thomson, M. Phillips, M. Johnson and E. Clery), London: Sage, 2008[2]
  • British Social Attitudes: the 25th report (ed. with A. Park, K. Thomson, M. Phillips, and E. Clery), London: Sage, 2009[2]
  • Has Devolution Worked? (ed. with B. Seyd), Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009[2]
  • Revolution or Evolution?: The 2007 Scottish Elections, (with D. McCrone, N. McEwen, M. Marsh and R.Ormston), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009[2]
  • British Social Attitudes: the 26th report (ed. with A. Park, K. Thomson, M Phillips, and E. Clery), London: Sage, 2010.[2]
  • British Social Attitudes: the 27th report (ed. with A. Park, E. Clery and C. Bryson), London: Sage, 2010[2]

References[]

  1. ^ "BBC News – Scottish independence: Your questions answered". Bbc.co.uk. 4 July 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Staff profile of Prof. John Curtice, Strathclyde University, 29 September 2008
  3. ^ "John Curtice". www.natcen.ac.uk.
  4. ^ John Curtice (25 February 2008), Where stands the Union now? Lessons from the 2007 Scottish Parliament election., Institute for Public Policy Research., archived from the original on 5 July 2010
  5. ^ Trewhela, Lee (11 December 2019). "Cornwall polling guru Sir John Curtice's surprise general election prediction". Cornwall Live.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b "John Curtice: top tipster". The Guardian. 31 May 2005. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  7. ^ "Professor John Curtice, MA(Oxon), FRSA". University of Strathclyde. Archived from the original on 24 June 2012.
  8. ^ "Polling expert John Curtice gets 'unanticipated' knighthood". BBC News. 30 December 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  9. ^ "The cult of Curtice: social media love for polling guru". BBC. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  10. ^ "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  11. ^ "No. 62150". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2017. p. N2.

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