Rosalind Shorrocks (panellist)

Rosalind Shorrocks is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester. Her research is in the area of gender and politics in Britain, Europe, and Anglo-American democracies, with a particular focus on electoral politics, political behaviour, and social attitudes. She is particularly interested in how gender shapes public opinion and vote choice, with a focus on how men and women behave differently at election time as well as how this has changed across generations in Western Europe. Her research has also focused on attitudes towards gender, gender-roles, and feminism, and their relationship with electoral behaviour including party choice and voting for female candidates. Her book, Women, Men, and Elections (2021), argued that women and men respond in different ways to political parties’ policy supply, and that when parties adopt specific policy positions on issues ranging from redistribution to foreign policy, they will see variation in their gendered patterns of support. Since 2023, she has been lead UK investigator for the Horizon Europe-funded project ‘UNTWIST’, analysing voters’ demands on gender issues and whether and how political parties are responding to them.