Broderick McDonald is a Research Fellow at Kings College London’s XCEPT Research Programme and a doctoral researcher in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford where he researches conflict, terrorism, and political violence. Outside of this, he is a Visiting Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute’s Centre for Emerging Technologies and Security (CETaS) and a Research Affiliate with the Rothermere American Institute.

I am a doctoral student at Merton College. I am researching the kind of people (in terms of sociodemographic characteristics, with a particular focus on education, former occupation, and class) who act as politicians in modern Britain, testing whether they are the kind of people whom Britons want to act as their representatives (at the experimental and electoral levels), and exploring what British politicians publicise - and don't publicise - about themselves with regard to the sociodemographic characteristics listed above.