Jerry Johnson

Research Assistant and PhD student 
  

Email: jerry.johnson@manchester.ac.uk

Room 2.27
Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR)
Faculty of Humanities
University of Manchester

2nd Floor, Crawford House
MANCHESTER
M13 9PL

Jerry began researching for a PhD in January 2003 jointly supervised by the Department of Politics and CCSR. Having secured an ESRC quota award with CCSR, Jerry is, from October 2004 an ESRC funded 1+3 PhD student working with Ed Fieldhouse, Director of CCSR, and Andrew Russell in Politics. He took the MSc in Survey Research Methods and Statistics before moving back to PhD research from October 2005. Meanwhile, Jerry is a graduate teaching assistant in CCSR and Politics and also teaches at The University of Northampton.

Academic affiliations and activities

• Chair of the PSA Graduate Network and member of the PSA Executive Committee 2004-06.
• Member and Website Editor of the ‘steering committee’ of the ECPR Graduate Network 2004-06.
• Website Editor and Executive Committee member of the PSA’s Graduate Network (PGN) 2002-04. See www.psa.ac.uk/graduate.
• Member of the Political Studies Association, and Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) sub-group.

Higher Education Qualifications

• BA (Hons) Politics with Philosophy, University College Northampton, 1999
• MA in Political Behaviour, University of Essex, 2002
• MSc Social Research Methods and Statistics, University of Manchester, 2005
  

Publications and Conferences

• Johnson, J. (2005) “Launch of the European Consortium for Political Science Graduate Network” Corvinus University of Budapest, 9th September 2005.
• Johnson, J. (2005) “Post-Election Analysis” paper given at the School of Social Sciences seminar, Thursday 26th May 2005.
• Johnson J. (2004) “Liberal Democrats prospects at the forthcoming General Election” paper given at the Political Studies Association Graduate Network, Central and Northern England conference, University of Manchester, 20th November 2004.
• Fieldhouse, E.A., Pickles, A., Shryane, N.M., Johnson, J., Russell, A. T. and Purdam, K. (2004) “Party preferences and vote in a multi-party, simple plurality system: an analysis of Liberal Democrat support and vote using the generalized linear, latent and mixed models framework” Paper presented at PSA Conference, 6th April University of Lincoln.
• Johnson, J. (2004) “Identification, preference or tactical vote? Liberal Democrat support 1997-2001” Paper given at the Graduate Workshop in Electoral Behaviour, Nuffield College Oxford, 19th May 2004.
• Johnson, J. and Karin Bottom (2004) “Spinning plates and other juggling activities” paper at PSA Postgraduate Conference, 5th April University of Lincoln.
• Johnson, J. (2003) "Asserting ideology: the location of beliefs and values in voting behaviour" paper given at the PSA Central and Northern England Postgraduate Conference 22 November 2003 and PSA Wales and South-West Postgraduate Conference 6 March 2004.
• Johnson, J. (2003) "Never mind the length, feel the quality" in Waymark (Autumn edition) House journal of the Institute of Public Rights of Way.
• Johnson, J. (2003) (Ed) "Research Directory" Annual publication for the postgraduate members of the Political Studies Association.

Academic Employment History

• Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester (October 2005-present)
     o Graduate Teaching Assistant
  
• Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester (September 2003-August 2004)
     o Part-time Research Associate
     o Literature review and data analysis on the project: “Modelling voter                  preferences: a multilevel, longitudinal approach”
  
• University of Manchester, Government, International Politics and Philosophy (October 2003-)
     o Graduate Teaching Assistant on GV1700, Introduction to Political Thought
     o Graduate Teaching Assistant on GV3242, Elections and Voters
  
• The University of Northampton (Oct 2002-)
     o Part-time lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Social Studies Division

     (Politics, Sociology, Criminology and Research Methods)
   o Lectures and seminars on politics and research methods modules
   o Personal tutor
   o Dissertation supervisor

Research Activity (and forthcoming conference papers)

• “Political socialisation, knowledge, interest and participation of young people” with Peter Whittaker based at University of Northampton
  • Paper to be given at The University of Northampton School of Social Sciences / AimHigher Masterclass, 17th November 2005.
• “Liberal Democrat support 1997-2001” with Nick Shryane, based at the Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester
  • Paper to be given at the British Political Liberal Studies conference, Gregynog, Powys 13-15 January 2006.
• “Values, beliefs and party preference” doctoral research based at the Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester

• Paper to be given at the Political Studies Association Graduate Network, Central and Northern England conference, University of Northampton, 19th November 2005.
• Paper to be given at the Political Studies Association annual conference, University of Reading 3-7 April 2006.
• “Ethnicity and access to postgraduate education” with Paul Wakeling based at the Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester

• Paper to be given at the Centre for Census and Survey Research Seminar 8th November 2005.
• Paper to be given at the Political Studies Association Graduate Network, Central and Northern England conference, University of Northampton, 19th November 2005.
• Paper to be given at the C-SAP Conference, Birmingham 25-27 November 2005.
• Paper to be given at the Political Studies Association annual conference, University of Reading 3-7 April 2006

Funding

• With Paul Wakeling (University of Manchester) £2000 from C-SAP (Higher Education Academy Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics) for research into ethnicity and access to postgraduate education.

Conferences organised

• Political Studies Association Graduate Network Central and Northern England conference, University of Manchester, 20th November 2004
• Political Studies Association Graduate Network Central and Northern England conference, The University of Northampton, 19th November 2005
  

Media appearances

• BBC Radio Northampton, Election programme, interview, Thursday 28th April 2005.
• BBC1 Breakfast News, Tuesday 3rd May 2005.
• BBC Radio Northampton, Election programme, interview, Wednesday 4th May 2005.
• BBC Radio Northampton, Election Night Special, studio guest, Thursday 5th May 2005

Research interests

• British politics and parliament
• Economic Theories of Politics
• Electoral behaviour (esp. British)
• Media representations of political issues
• Methodological (esp. quantitative) issues
• Political parties and elections (British)
• Political party ideology (British)
• Political theory and philosophy
• The ‘rational choice’ debate
• Voter ideology

Web-links

• PSA Graduate Network (PGN) www.psa.ac.uk/graduate
• ECPR Graduate Network www.essex.ac.uk/ECPR/graduates/index.asp