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William Allen is a Lecturer in Political Science. His research examines how and why people engage with information about political issues, particularly on migration and gained through media, and what this means for politics and policymaking around the world. He has supported this agenda with grants as Principal (PI) and Co-Investigator (Co-I) from the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Academy, the World Bank, and the Toyota Foundation-Japan. In 2024, he was selected as a member of the UK Young Academy, the national body for early-career leaders across research and industry.
He has served on the editorial boards of Migration Studies (Deputy Editor, 2024-28), Journal of Refugee Studies (Associate Editor, 2021-24), and Evidence & Policy (Associate Editor, 2019-24) where he continues to be on its Editorial Advisory Board.
Previously, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford affiliated with Nuffield College (2021-24); a Teaching Fellow in Politics at St John's College, Oxford (2020-21); and a Fellow by Examination (Junior Research Fellow) in Political and Development Studies at Magdalen College, Oxford (2018-20). He also worked at Oxford's Migration Observatory leading efforts to understand and communicate data and statistics to policymakers, journalists, and civil society organisations (2012-18), and the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity (2018-24) studying city-level efforts to develop more effective integration policies across Europe.
He holds a DPhil in Politics (Oxford), an MPhil in Development Studies (Oxford), and a BA in Social Policy & Economics (Alma College, USA). He is also a Fellow of AdvanceHE, informed by a PGCert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Oxford).