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Marta Cantijoch Cunill

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Biography

Marta Cantijoch holds a PhD in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2013). She joined the Department of Politics at The University of Manchester as a Lecturer in 2014. She is currently the Politics Director of Undergraduate Studies and has been convenor of the "Democracy & Elections" Research Cluster. Marta has developed an extensive portfolio of research in the fields of political participation and political communication, with a focus on the effects of digital media. She is particularly interested in understanding how citizens use the internet to engage in politics and develop their citizenship skills. In her analyses, she uses innovative forms of data, including linked survey and digital trace data or survey experiments, as well as mixed-methods designs combining survey data and qualitative focus groups or diaries. Her work has been published in top tier journals, including The Journal of Politics, Political Communication or The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. She is also the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behaviour and Public Opinion (2018).

Research interests

  • Political Participation
  • Elections and electoral behaviour
  • Electoral campaigns
  • Political communication
  • Digital Politics
  • Digital media and social media

Further information

Courses taught (present and past):

POLI10100 – Study Skills (UGT 1) 
POLI10302 – Making Sense of Politics (UGT 1) 
POLI2902 - How to Conduct Politics Research (UG 2)
POLI31042 – Understanding Political Choice in Britain (UGT 3) 
SOCS70512 - Applied Quantitative Methods (PGT)
UG and PGT supervision


PhD students:

Completed:

2014 - Cheryl Anderson: "Does the web create a pathway to political engagement for young people?" 
2021 - Niklas Loynes: "Public opinion without polls: the case for twitter as a source for electoral forecasts".    
2022 - Jack Bailey: "Voter Preferences and the Changing Dimensions and Dynamics of Economic Wellbeing in the 21st century"
2023 - James Griffiths: "Why, and when, does national identity become important to elections?"
2024 - Oliver Beatson - "Evaluating the merits of Survey and Observational Data in National Election Studies"


On-going:

Peninah Wangari-Jones - "How does coloniality shape black activism?"
Cressida Arkwright - "Youth engagement in young democracies. Assessing the patterns and drivers of youth engagement in Ukraine".
Sarah Ledoux - "Are elected legislators responsive to citizen policy demands expressed in social media? A comparative analysis of Latin American democracies"
Niamh Cashell - "Visual social media use in election campaigns."
Ashley Cresswell - "Navigating the political information environment: behavioural determinants of information processing on social media during election campaigns"


Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Digital Futures
  • Cathie Marsh Institute

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