MIAOFANG GUAN

I am an early-career researcher specialising in public opinion and political behaviour.  I obtain a Joint-PhD degree from King’s College London (KCL) and the University of São Paulo (USP).

My research interests include political polarisation, populism, threat perception, and national identity, with an interdisciplinary focus on political psychology. I have also engaged with more IR-oriented perspectives, including theories of soft power. Methodologically, my work has been predominantly quantitative, particularly involving large-scale cross-national survey analysis and original survey fieldwork.  I am also keen to expand into causal inference and longitudinal data analysis as part of my future research.

While my PhD project primarily takes a global comparative approach, I also have a strong regional interest in Latin American studies, informed by six years of living and conducting research in Brazil.

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