Edmund Kelly


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Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Methodology
London School of Economics
e.b.kelly1[at]lse.ac.uk

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I am a quantitative social scientist based in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics. I work on comparative political behaviour, public opinion, and political sociology, with a particular interest in political and social trust.

My research is organised around two broad sets of questions:

  • Attitude formation: How do early-life characteristics and experiences shape political attitudes, and how can experiences with state institutions change them?

  • Opinion dynamics: How can we measure latent public attitudes comparably across populations and over time? How and why do these attitudes change, and what are the political and social consequences of these changes?

I use quantitative and computational approaches to answer these questions, including twin studies, longitudinal panel methods, and Bayesian latent variable models. I also contribute to large-scale research projects examining the reproducibility of social science research and the role of artificial intelligence in reproducibility assessments.

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