Lennard Metson

PhD student studying political campaigns using quantitative methods

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I am a PhD candidate at LSE Government, supervised by Florian Foos and Mathias Poertner.

I am interested in how campaigns shape political behaviour.

My PhD thesis examines the development and implications of relational campaigning: a set of network-based strategies where campaigns attempt to utilise their supporters’ social connections to reach voters.

Beyond my PhD research, I am interested in persuasion and mobilisation more broadly, as well as how developments in political technology and data science have changed campaigning.

I study these topics using experiments, surveys and computational methods.


About me

Education:

  • London School of Economics, PhD Political Science (2023-present)
  • University of Oxford, MSc Politics Research (2022-23)
  • London School of Economics, BSc Politics (2019-22)

Outside of work, I volunteer with London Search & Rescue who support the emergency services in finding vulnerable missing people in London’s green spaces. You can find out more about their work here.