Todd Hartman is Head of the Department of Social Statistics and Professor of Quantitative Social Science at The University of Manchester.  He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, which is a hub for the development and application of advanced quantitative methods in interdisciplinary social science research. His research explores the psychological underpinnings of public opinion and behaviour using cutting-edge research methods and statistical techniques.

More recently, Prof Hartman has focused on mapping the structure of complex belief systems using network analysis and other tools from computational social science, as well as the causes and consequences of authoritarianism. His work has been published in prestigious peer-reviewed academic journals such as Nature Communications, Nature: Scientific Reports, Psychological Medicine, Big Data & Society, British Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Political Psychology, Political Communication, and The Geographical Journal.