Dr Jac Larner
Lecturer in Politics
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am a Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff University where I teach Political Behaviour and Research Methods. My research interests focus on elections, political psychology, voting behaviour, national identity, and survey methodology. I also have expertise Welsh and Scottish politics, and sub-state politics more broadly. I completed my PhD, titled 'The Multilevel Voter: Identity, Territory and Electoral Behaviour', in September 2019.
As of January 2021, I am a member of the research teams carrying out the 2021 Welsh Election Study and Scottish Election Study: the two largest sub-state election studies ever carried out in the UK.
Prior to joining Cardiff in my current role, I was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, a leading centre for survey research. During my PhD, I worked as a Research Assistant on the British, Scottish, and Welsh Election Studies, as well as the Future of England Surveys.
Biography
Publications
2023
- Griffiths, J. D., Wyn Jones, R., Poole, E. G. and Larner, J. M. 2023. Making the case for more politicians: a survey experiment to investigate public attitudes to an expanded welsh parliament. Parliamentary Affairs (10.1093/pa/gsad004)
2022
- Henderson, A., Johns, R., Larner, J. and Carman, C. 2022. The referendum that changed a nation: Scottish voting behaviour 2014–2019. Palgrave Macmillan. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16095-0)
- Larner, J., Wyn Jones, R., Poole, E., Surridge, P. and Wincott, D. 2022. Incumbency and identity: the 2021 Senedd election. Parliamentary Affairs, article number: gsac012. (10.1093/pa/gsac012)
2021
- Kenny, J., Larner, J. and Lewis-Beck, M. 2021. Candidate authenticity and the Iowa Caucus. Electoral Studies (10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102390)
- Stiers, D., Larner, J., Kenny, J., Breitenstein, S., Vallée-Dubois, F. and Lewis-Beck, M. 2021. Candidate authenticity: 'to thine own self be true'. Political Behavior 43, pp. 1181-1204. (10.1007/s11109-019-09589-y)
- Henderson, A., Poole, E. G., Wyn Jones, R., Wincott, D., Larner, J. and Jeffery, C. 2021. Analysing vote choice in a multi-national state: national identity and territorial differentiation in the 2016 Brexit vote. Regional Studies 55(9), pp. 1502-1516. (10.1080/00343404.2020.1813883)
- Wyn Jones, R. W. and Larner, J. 2021. What about Wales? Brexit and the future of the UK. Discover Society 1(2), article number: 4. (10.51428/dsoc.2021.02.0004)
- Wyn Jones, R. and Larner, J. 2021. Progressive home rule?. IPPR Progressive Review 27(3), pp. 235-245. (10.1111/newe.12221)
2020
- Johns, R., Henderson, A., Carman, C. and Larner, J. 2020. Brexit or independence? Scotland's general election. Political Insight 11(1), pp. 28-31. (10.1177/2041905820911745)
2019
- Larner, J. M. 2019. The multilevel voter: Identity, territory and electoral behaviour. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2018
- Awan-Scully, R., Stirbu, D., Pritchard, H., Larner, J. and Davies, N. 2018. Unpacking diversity: Barriers and incentives to standing for election to the National Assembly for Wales. Cardiff: Wales Governance Centre. Available at: http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/wgc/files/2018/07/REPORT-Unpacking-Diversity-July-2018.pdf
- Stirbu, D., Larner, J. and McAllister, L. 2018. Gender representation in Wales: new approaches to candidate selection in UK's devolved legislatures and beyond. In: Cordero, G. and Coller, X. eds. Democratizing Candidate Selection: New Methods, Old Receipts?. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 201-230., (10.1007/978-3-319-76550-1_9)
2017
- Scully, R. and Larner, J. 2017. A successful defence: the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election. Parliamentary Affairs 70(3), pp. 507-529. (10.1093/pa/gsw033)
Teaching
Graduate Teaching
- Devolution and Public Policy in Wales
- Introduction to Regression Analysis Short Course - 2016/17/18
Undergraduate Teaching
- Elections in the UK (3rd Year)
- Comparative European Politics (2nd Year)
- The Power and Politics of Research Methods
