Dr Tim Vlandas

Dr Tim Vlandas (PhD, LSE) is Governing Body Fellow at St Antony’s College, Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and associate member of Nuffield College, all at the University of Oxford. He has held visiting posts at Harvard University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Sciences Po Paris, and the University of Konstanz. He has been awarded prizes for his teaching and research, for instance from the LSE, the European Network for Social Policy Analysis and the American Political Science Association.

He is interested in the relationship between electoral politics, public policies and economic outcomes. His research has appeared in over fifty publications in a wide range of academic outlets, including top international journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Perspective in Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, Political Science Research and Methods, Politics&Society, and PNAS Nexus. His research has been cited by the UK House of Commons, the OECD, the ILO, the UN, the World Bank, the Financial Times, The Economist, the Guardian, and the New York Times, among others.

He has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to carry out a research project entitled ‘Ageing Democracies: Grey Power and Economic Performance’, which will be published as a monograph in Oxford University Press.

For more information about Tim’s background and research, please visit his website, his research gate page and his Google citations page.