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Personal Statement
Thomas J. Scotto is the Head of the Department and Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Strathclyde. His research interests focus on public opinion and applied quantitative methods, particularly structural equation modeling and latent variable analysis.
His recent work, funded by the ESRC and the British Academy, examines cross-national public opinion on foreign policy issues. This research has been published in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Political Behavior, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and Canadian Foreign Policy. Earlier in his career, Professor Scotto concentrated on American and Canadian voting behavior, co-authoring the University of Toronto Press book Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States.
From 2007 to 2016, he was a member of the Department of Government at the University of Essex, where he received multiple teaching awards from the Essex Student Union. Between 2020 and 2024, he served as Dean of Education, North American Link, and Professor of Politics in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
Professor Scotto's consultancy work includes developing "open government" indicators for the OECD, contributing to "Parliamentary Strengthening" projects in Mozambique, Ukraine, and Georgia, and advising on survey design in the United States and the United Kingdom. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in 2024.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Short-term forces or artifacts of measurement error? : the components of partisan change and presidental vote choice in the United States, 1988-2000, Duke University
1 Jun 2002 → 31 Dec 2005
Award Date: 31 Dec 2005
Master of Arts, From a two-party-plus to a one-party-plus? Ideology, vote choice, and prospects for a competitive party system in Canada
15 Aug 1999 → 31 Aug 2002
Award Date: 31 Aug 2002
Bachelor of Arts, Measuring the Presidential Coattail Effect: a Methodological Critique, State University of New York at Binghamton
15 Aug 1995 → 31 May 1999
Award Date: 31 May 1999
Keywords
- public opinion
- foreign policy
- American Government
- Canadian Government
- Structural Equation Modelling
- Voting Behaviour
- Latent Variable Modelling
- Quantitative Methods
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 2 Finished
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Measuring Trust and its Variance during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Serial Surveys and Quantitative Text Analysis
Scotto, T. (Principal Investigator)
ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council)
1/07/24 → 31/01/25
Project: Research
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Free Speech and Civil Liberties on the British Campus: The Public Opines
Scotto, T. (Principal Investigator)
1/10/18 → 1/06/19
Project: Research
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Public attitudes towards disclosing personal and anonymous health-related data and information
Yen, D.A.-W., Dorussen, H., Pickering, S., Hansen, M., Scotto, T. & Reifler, J., 2 Jan 2025, In: British Journal of Healthcare Management. 31, 1, p. 1-12 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Motherhood in academia: a novel dataset of UK academic women with an application to maternity leave uptake
Di Leo, R., Epifanio, M., Scotto, T. J. & Troeger, V. E., 29 Jul 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Social Policy and Administration. 59, 3, p. 454-469 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)18 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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2004 Political Support in Canada Study
Scotto, T. (Creator), Clarke, H. (Creator) & Kornberg, A. (Creator), Harvard Dataverse, 15 Sept 2023
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/7iutdq
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Data for: "The consequential Nationalist–Globalist policy divide in contemporary Britain: some initial analyses"
J. Scotto, T. (Contributor), Sanders, D. (Creator) & Reifler, J. (Creator), figshare, 17 May 2023
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5285116.v1
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Prizes
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Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)
Scotto, T. (Recipient), 2024
Prize: Election to learned society
Activities
- 2 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Centre for Energy Policy Energy Conversations: Do we have the necessary skilled labour to enable a net zero economy?
Calvillo Munoz, C. (Organiser), Katris, A. (Organiser), Alabi, O. T. (Organiser), Scotto, T. (Speaker), Nolan, H. (Speaker), Scott, R. (Speaker), Turner, K. (Speaker) & Young, A. (Chair)
27 Feb 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Energy Security Challenges: NATO's approach
Scotto, T. (Participant)
24 Jan 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course