Joseph Phillips

I am a Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff University where I teach on elections and research methods.

My research concerns polarization, misinformation, political psychology, and longitudinal methods. I am affiliated with the Psychology and Public Policy Research Unit (PSYPOL) at the University of Kent where I work on the VOICE Survey (funded by the European Research Council).

I take an interdisciplinary and methodologically pluralistic approach to my work, drawing on insights from social psychology and sociology to explain how citizens approach politics. Most of my current work focusses on the consequences of polarization for democratic norms, the extent to which elite communication strategies can combat misinformation, and citizens’ attitudes toward political violence.

Prior to joining Cardiff in my current role, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Kent School of Psychology and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.