Broderick McDonald is an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and a DPhil Candidate in the Department of Politics & International Relations at the University of Oxford where he researches conflict, extremism, and political violence. Broderick previously served as a Policy Advisor to the Government of Canada and a researcher with the Non-Partisan Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention. Outside of this, he is a Postgraduate Researcher at the Rothermere American Institute and a Rising Leaders Fellow with the Aspen Institute.

I am a doctoral student at Merton College. I am researching the kind of people (in terms of sociodemographic characteristics, with a particular focus on education, former occupation, and class) who act as politicians in modern Britain, testing whether they are the kind of people whom Britons want to act as their representatives (at the experimental and electoral levels), and exploring what British politicians publicise - and don't publicise - about themselves with regard to the sociodemographic characteristics listed above.