I am an Associate Professor of Economics at The University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia.

My research lies at the intersection of political economy and behavioral economics. Combining theory with laboratory, online and field experiments and empirical analysis, I study how people make political and social decisions. My main focus is on voting and elections: turnout, information aggregation, polarization, and the barriers to running for office. I also work on contests and the funding of public goods, social preferences, and honesty and conflict. My work has appeared in the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of Public Economics, Experimental Economics and Economic Theory, among others.

I received my Ph.D. from The University of Edinburgh and worked at The University of St Andrews before joining UQ. I am a Coordinating Editor of Theory and Decision.

I currently hold an ARC Discovery Project grant with Vera te Velde, Voter Behaviour and Polarisation: The Role of Social Preferences (DP220102533), and have previously led ARC-funded projects on related themes.