Hi, I'm Clemens, a Political Sociologist and Computational Social Data Scientist, PhD Student, & Tutor in Sociology and Politics at the University of Oxford.
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My current research explores the process of political information consumption, cognition, and behavioural change. In this context I seek to understand key drivers behind public opinion formation, political attitudes, social identity, and political behaviour. The subject of my research extends to a variety of areas, including political polarization, elections, Brexit, media, and climate politics. My methodology centres on the use of quantitative methods, including descriptive and inferential statistics, causal inference, network analysis, and machine learning.
Specifically, my doctoral thesis addresses questions on both voting behaviour and the evolution of Brexit identities, focusing on how media consumption during election campaigns shaped these dynamics. I answered these questions using a combination of browsing history data, representative survey data, and advanced statistical methods and quasi-experimental designs for causal inference estimations. I see myself as a computational social scientist who takes sociological theory very seriously.
This academic term, I am tutoring at the University of Oxford Sociological Theory , Radical Social Theory, and Political Sociology for PPE, History, and Politics undergraduates. You can access my current teaching materials for my lectures and Oxford tutorials here on my website under the teaching tab.
Here is a list of my recent blog articles. Alternatively, you can also check out my blog posts on Medium @clemensjarnach.
A list of projects I am currently working on will follow soon.
My doctoral studies are supervised by Stephen Fisher (Associate Professor in Political Sociology; Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford), and Michael Biggs (Associate Professor of Sociology; Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford).