Viktor Valgarðsson Author

Will Jennings is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Southampton. Between 2019 and 2023 he led the TrustGov project funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) exploring patterns of trust in national and global governance. He is also an Elections Analyst for Sky News. Daniel Devine is Associate Professor of Public Opinion and Behaviour at the University of Southampton. He has published extensively on political trust and related topics in leading academic journals and is the co-editor (with Professor Malcolm Fairbrother) of A Research Agenda for Political Trust (2026). Viktor Valgarðsson is Adjunct Lecturer in Politics at the University of Iceland. He previously held Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Southampton and was Research Fellow on the TrustGov research project there. His research is focused on political trust and its implications for democracy. Jennifer Gaskell is Research Manager at the University of Southampton on a project that maps future populations for climate change mitigation. Her background is in the uses of new technologies for development and peacebuilding. Between 2019 and 2023, she led the qualitative work on the TrustGov project. Gerry Stoker OBE is Chair of Governance at the University of Southampton. His work is widely cited and includes the prize-winning Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work. He has held visiting professorial positions in South Africa, Iceland and Australia and has been an invited speaker to seminars throughout Europe and beyond.