Dr Stefanie Reher

Personal statement

I joined the School of Government and Public Policy in 2017 as a Chancellor's Fellow and became a Senior Lecturer in 2019. Before moving to Glasgow, I was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen. I completed my DPhil at the University of Oxford, Nuffield College. My research focuses on political representation, behaviour, and attitudes. I use quantitative methods to study how well public policy reflects the preferences and views of citizens, what explains differences in representation between different social groups and countries, and how it affects individuals' attitudes towards their political system. My current work focuses in particular on access to politics for disabled people; I hold an ESRC New Investigator grant to study how voters perceive disabled election candidates. You can find further information about my research on my website: http://mwpweb.eu/StefanieReher/.