Research

Last updated 25/11/2024

I’m lucky enough to do research for a living, previously as a PhD student and now as a Data Scientist. This page lists my publications, with work conducted across the fields of political science, data science, and artificial intelligence. I do my best to keep this page up to date, but for a list that’s more likely (though not guaranteed) to be current I recommend visiting my google scholar profile.

Publications

AI-Enabled Influence Operations: Safeguarding Future Elections

Stockwell, S., Hughes, M., Swatton, P., Zhang, A., Hall KC, J., and Kieran (2024)

Low-Cost Model Selection for Transformers (LoCoMoSeT)

Dable-Heath, E., Swatton, P., Roberts, J., and Bishop, J (2024)

AI-Enabled Influence Operations: The Threat to the UK General Election

Stockwell, S., Hughes, M., Swatton, P., and Bishop, K. (2024)

Agree to Agree: Correcting Acquiescence Bias in the Case of Fully Unbalanced Scales with Application to UK Measurements of Political Beliefs

Swatton, P. (2024)

Model Similarity Phase 2: Dataset Similarity

Swatton, P., Knight, J. and Bishop, J. (2023)

Social Democratic Party Positions on the EU: The Case of Brexit

Swatton, P.J. (2023)

Working Papers

Age Isn't Just a Number: A Comparative Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Political Beliefs in Europe

Swatton, P.J. (2021)

The effect of Vocational Training on Voter Choice in the Case of Germany

Swatton, P.J. and Wagner, S. (2021)

How Parties Die? Political Parties Change and Mortality in Western Democracies

Kuraishi, A., Swatton, P.J., and Zur, R.

PhD Thesis

My PhD thesis is titled Three Essays on the Measurement of Political Ideology. It has three component papers:

  1. Agree to Agree: Correcting Acquiescence Bias in the Case of Fully Unbalanced Scales with Application to UK Measurements of Political Beliefs
  2. Age Isn’t Just a Number: A Comparative Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Political Beliefs in Europe
  3. Social Democratic Party Positions on the EU: The Case of Brexit

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