Roundtable participant - Rosie Campbell

Professor Rosie Campbell is professor of politics and director of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London. She held positions at Birkbeck and UCL before joining King’s in 2018. She has recently written on barriers to participation in politics, gendered patterns of voting behaviour and what voters want from their elected representatives. Her publications cover the subjects of voting behaviour, public opinion, the politics of diversity, intersectionality, and political recruitment. She was the principal investigator of the ESRC funded Representative Audit of Britain, which surveyed all candidates standing in the 2015, 2017 and 2019 British General Elections. She is one of two principal investigators of the ERC (UKRI) Synergy Project QUALREP, with Professor Sarah Childs University of Edinburgh, which attempts to measure the quality of women’s political representation in five European countries. Professor Campbell will reflect on how observational data, especially candidate and voter surveys, help scholars unpack voters’ attitudes about women politicians’ advantages and disadvantages among the electorate, within parties, and once in office.