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PAIS makes new academic appointment
Following a rigorous selection process, the Department of Politics and International Studies and Q-Step Centre at the University of Warwick are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Andreas Murr to the Assistant Professorship in Quantitative Political Science.
Currently, Dr Murr is Lecturer in Quantitative Methods in Political Science at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, Associate Member at Nuffield College, Non-Stipendiary Lecturer at Lincoln College, and member of the Oxford Q-Step Centre. He is also member of the editorial board of Electoral Studies, co-editor of The Plot, and co-convenor of the Political Methodology Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association. In 2013 he received his PhD from the University of Essex. His research focuses on election forecasting, the voting behaviour of immigrants, and the selection of party leaders. He combines the study of these topics with an interest in political methodology, in particular Bayesian methods. His work has been published in Electoral Studies, the International Journal of Forecasting, Political Analysis, and Research & Politics.
We look forward to welcoming Dr Murr as of 1 September 2016.