John Curtice
| John Kevin Curtice | |
|---|---|
| Born |
10 December 1953 St Austell, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater |
Magdalen College, Oxford Nuffield College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Professor of Politics, Strathclyde University, UK |
John Kevin Curtice, FRSA, FRSE, FBA (born 10 December 1953 in St Austell, Cornwall) is a political scientist who is currently Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde and Senior Research Fellow at NatCen Social Research. He is particularly interested in electoral behaviour and researching political and social attitudes. He took a keen interest in the debate for Scottish independence.
Curtice is Jewish and was educated at Truro School and Magdalen College, Oxford where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and later transferred to Nuffield College as a postgraduate. He is one of Britain's leading psephologists and is the current President of the British Polling Council. He is married with one daughter.
Professor Curtice serves as President of the British Polling Council, vice-chair of the Economic and Social Data Service's Advisory Committee and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Elections, the Executive Committee of the British Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and the Policy Advisory Committee of the Institute for Public Policy Research. He was formerly a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and a member of the steering committee of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Project.
Professor Curtice was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1992 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004. In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
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