Kieran Wright

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I completed my PhD at the University of Kent in 2021. Subsequently I taught various modules in politics, public policy and social science research methods (with a particular emphasis on quantitative methods) at the University of Sheffield. I also led the Parliamentary Studies module at Birkbeck University of London. Prior to Kent I worked variously as a lecturer in the further education sector, and as a full-time carer. I took up my current position at Warwick with a teaching focus on UK politics and policy in the autumn of 2024.

My research investigates the link between the behaviour of political actors, including the language they use when communicating with the public, and political outcomes such as election results and shifts in public opinion. I primarily focus on UK politics studying political parties, nationalism, political rhetoric and parliamentary representation making extensive use of quantitative text analysis.

Publications

Wright, K. (2025) Position, salience and rhetoric: the strategic tools employed by the main Scottish political parties in the post-devolution era. British Politics, 20, 250–271 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-024-00257-2

Wright, K (2022) Whatever Happened to the Progressive Case for the Union? How Scottish Labour’s Failure to Subsume a Clearly Left of Centre Identity with a Pro-Union One Helps to Explain Its Decline, Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 75, Issue 3, July, Pages 616–633, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsab014