John Curtice

Policy Advisory Council

John Curtice is Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University and Research Consultant to the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). An expert in survey research, he has been a regular contributor to and editor of NatCen's British Social Attitudes survey series since 1985, while from 1983 to 1997 he was co-director of the British Election Study, the principal survey resource for the academic study of voting behaviour in Britain. His research interests include voting behaviour, electoral systems, and social and political attitudes, including not least attitudes towards devolution and independence in Scotland.

Professor Curtice is a regular media commentator on political developments in both Scotland in particular and across the UK in general. He is also President of the British Polling Council, a body that promotes transparency in the opinion poll industry.

More from this author:

  1. Concern about the economic consequences of Brexit is leading some Leave voters to change their minds

  2. Brexit and the refuge of ambiguity by John Curtice

    The key message of the polls is that the country is still split more or less equally down the middle on the merits of Brexit, thereby creating little incentive for any party to clarify its position any more than immediately necessary, says…

  3. Labour’s Richmond problem: Why isn’t the party more worried about losing Remain supporters to the Lib Dems?

    Labour's anxiety about being outflanked by Ukip and the Conservatives on the Leave side, while justified, may be blinding it to a more urgent problem in its electoral base, warns John Curtice. Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats are setting out…