About
Dr Viktor Orri Valgarðsson is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the department of Politics and International Relations and former Research Fellow at the TrustGov research project.
His fellowship is focused on investigating how political trust might be rebuilt today and his broader research agenda is focused on trust and other types of support; their causes, consequences and changes over time and how they relate to political participation and different conceptions of democracy and representation.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Political trust
- Satisfaction with democracy
- Political participation
- Voter turnout
- Democratic innovations
Current research
Viktor's current research interests lie especially in understanding what changes in political support and participation across the world in recent times mean for democracy in the modern age, and if and how democratic systems need to be reformed in light of those developments. Within that broad remit, he is interested in various aspects of public political opinion and behaviour, primarily using quantitative methods and survey data.
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Active projects
Publications
Pagination
Biography
Before joining the University of Southampton as a post-doctoral researcher, Viktor was a Teaching Fellow in Quantitative Comparative Politics at Durham University. He completed his PhD in Political Science and MSc in Governance & Policy at the University of Southampton between 2014 and 2020. Before that, he worked at the Social Science Research Institute at the University of Iceland and did his BA in Political Science there. He was also a deputy member of the Icelandic Parliament (Alþingi) in 2016-2017 and policy manager for the National Youth Council of Iceland in 2013-2014.
Prizes
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2022)
- Harrison Prize 2022 (2022)