Lennard Metson

PhD candidate studying election campaigns.

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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.

Education

  • London School of Economics | MRes/PhD Political Science | Since Sept. 2023
  • University of Oxford | MSc Politics Research | Sept. 2022 - Sept 2023
  • London School of Economics | BSc Politics | Sept. 2019 - Sept 2022