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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Will Jennings is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a significant focus on sociology and political science as well as political science and international relations.

Their work covers various interconnected topics, including:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Social Capital and Networks
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics

Will Jennings has contributed to multiple influential journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Political Studies
  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • The Political Quarterly
  • European Journal of Political Research
  • Political Insight

Recent papers authored by Will Jennings include:

  • "Lack of Trust, Conspiracy Beliefs, and Social Media Use Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy" (2021), published in Vaccines
  • "How trust, mistrust and distrust shape the governance of the COVID-19 crisis" (2021), published in Journal of European Public Policy
  • "Lack of trust and social media echo chambers predict COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy" (2021), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Jennings has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Gerry Stoker
  • Lawrence McKay
  • Daniel Devine
  • Viktor Orri Valgarðsson
  • Jennifer Gaskell

In addition to journal articles, their book publications have appeared under Liverpool University Press, with titles such as "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" released in 2023.

Will Jennings has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Lack of Trust, Conspiracy Beliefs, and Social Media Use Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

    Will Jennings;Gerry Stoker;Hannah Bunting;Viktor Orri Valgarðsson

  • Trust and the Coronavirus Pandemic: What are the Consequences of and for Trust? An Early Review of the Literature:

    Daniel Devine;Jennifer Gaskell;Will Jennings;Gerry Stoker

  • The Changing Cleavage Politics of Western Europe

    Robert Ford;William Jennings

  • Thatcher’s Children, Blair’s Babies, Political Socialization and Trickle-down Value Change: An Age, Period and Cohort Analysis

    Maria Teresa Grasso;Stephen Farrall;Emily Gray;Colin Hay

  • The Dynamics of Political Attention: Public Opinion and the Queen's Speech in the United Kingdom

    Will Jennings;Peter John

  • Effects of the Core Functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas

    Will Jennings;Shaun Bevan;Arco Timmermans;Gerard Breeman

  • Representation, Agendas and Institutions

    Shaun Bevan;Will Jennings

  • The Public Thermostat, Political Responsiveness and Error-Correction: Border Control and Asylum in Britain, 1994–2007

    Will Jennings

  • The Bifurcation of Politics: Two Englands

    Will Jennings;Gerry Stoker

  • Do the media set the parliamentary agenda? A comparative study in seven countries

    Rens Vliegenthart;Stefaan Walgrave;Frank R. Baumgartner;Shaun Bevan

  • Comparing Government Agendas: Executive Speeches in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Denmark

    Peter Bjerre Mortensen;Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Gerard Breeman;Laura Chaqués-Bonafont

  • Report of the Inquiry into the 2015 British general election opinion polls

    Patrick Sturgis;Nick Baker;Mario Callegaro;Stephen Fisher

  • Policy Agendas in British Politics

    Peter John;Anthony Bertelli;Will Jennings;Shaun Bevan

  • The dynamics of issue competence and vote for parties in and out of power: An analysis of valence in Britain, 1979-1997

    Jane Green;Will Jennings

  • Punctuations and Turning Points in British Politics: The Policy Agenda of the Queen's Speech, 1940-2005

    Peter John;Will Jennings

  • The Good Politician: Folk Theories, Political Interaction, and the Rise of Anti-Politics

    Nick Clarke;Will Jennings;Jonathan Moss;Gerry Stoker

  • The Politics of Competence: Parties, Public Opinion and Voters

    Jane Green;William Jennings

  • Distinguishing Between Most Important Problems and Issues

    Will Jennings;Christopher Wlezien

  • The Agenda of British Government: The Speech from the Throne, 1911–2008

    William Jennings;Shaun Bevan;Peter John

  • Testing times: Exploring staged responses and the impact of blame management strategies in two examination fiasco cases

    Christopher Hood;Will Jennings;Ruth Dixon;Brian W. Hogwood

  • Public opinion, responsiveness and constraint: Britain's three immigration policy regimes

    Robert Ford;Will Jennings;Will Somerville

  • Tilting Towards the Cosmopolitan Axis? Political Change in England and the 2017 General Election

    William Jennings;Gerard Stoker

  • Lack of trust and social media echo chambers predict COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

    Will Jennings;Gerry Stoker;Hannah Willis;Viktor Valgardsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerry Stoker
Gerry Stoker University of Southampton
Peter John
Peter John King's College London
Christopher Wlezien
Christopher Wlezien The University of Texas at Austin
Stephen Farrall
Stephen Farrall University of Sheffield
Colin Hay
Colin Hay Sciences Po
Robert Ford
Robert Ford University of Manchester
Anthony M. Bertelli
Anthony M. Bertelli Pennsylvania State University
Sylvain Brouard
Sylvain Brouard Sciences Po
Martin Lodge
Martin Lodge London School of Economics and Political Science
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders University of Sheffield

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