Nick Anstead

Nick Anstead is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Nick joined the department in 2010. Prior to this, he was a lecturer in politics at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Nick was educated at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, where he studied Modern History. He then obtained an MA and PhD in Politics from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Nick's work focuses on comparative politics, and in particular the way in which election campaigns are evolving in a changing media environment. He has written extensively on this topic, including work on the evolution of political parties, campaign finance, data-driven campaign practices, televised election debates and fake news / misinformation. Nick's current project is a book length study of the history of the idea of public opinion and its role in democratic politics.

Nick is a regular commentator on political events and elections on national and international media. He has appeared in a wide variety of broadcast media outlets including the BBC News Channel, BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4 World at One, BBC Radio 5 Live, Channel 4 News, LBC, Times Radio and CNN. He has written for or been quoted in The Guardian, the New Statesman, the Evening Standard, the Metro, the Big Issue, Vice, the Times Higher Education Supplement and the New York Times.