James studied Politics and International Relations at POLIS in Cambridge. His PhD research looks at the structure of political attitudes, trying to model how and why people form political beliefs. He is particularly interested in quantitative modelling and statistics, including regression modelling, agent-based models, Bayesian statistics, and geospatial statistics. His MPhil research focused on the psychological underpinnings of the 'neighbourhood effect' in UK elections. His undergraduate research project looked into the Moral Foundations of Brexit, and he has previously worked on the climate and immigration messaging projects in the lab. He is supervised by Dr. Lee de-Wit
