John Curtice

John Curtice is Professor of Politics and Director of the Social Statistics Laboratory at Strathclyde University , and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research on Elections and Social Trends. A member of the Market Research Society's inquiry into the performance of opinion polls in the 1992 general election, he has continued to undertake research on survey methodology and the conduct of opinion polls and was awarded the David Winton prize for the best technical paper at the 1997 Market Research Society conference. He also writes and comments regularly about the results of opinion polls in the media as well as undertaking academic research into electoral behaviour and political and social attitudes.