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Dr Tom O'Grady

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Associate Professor
Room: 2.06, 36-38 Gordon Square
Tel: 020 7679 8660 (ext. 28660)
Email: 
t.o'grady@ucl.ac.uk
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Biography

I have been at UCL since 2017 as Lecturer and then Associate Professor. I am also affiliated with UCL’s Social Data Institute, where I direct a range of education programmes in data science including our innovative Social Data Science Programme for undergraduates. Before coming to UCL, I did my PhD in Political Science at MIT and worked as an economist at the Bank of England. 

Research

My research focuses on political economy, public policy, political parties and political behaviour in the UK and Europe. My past work has examined long-term ideological change, attitudes to redistribution and the welfare state, and the politics of class, culminating in a recent book on the political economy of British welfare reforms: "The Transformation of British Welfare Policy". I am currently working on a new project on the politics of crime and punishment in the UK.  

Publications

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Teaching

I teach courses on data science (as part of the cross-departmental Social Data Science Programme) as well as political economy and political behaviour.