Professor Rosie Campbell is Professor of Politics at King’s College London. She held positions at Birkbeck and UCL before joining King’s in 2018.

Until 2025, Rosie led the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership, and has an ongoing connection with the institute. She has recently written on barriers to participation in politics, gendered patterns of voting behaviour and what voters want from their elected representatives. Her publications cover the subjects of voting behaviour, public opinion, the politics of diversity and political recruitment. She was the principal investigator of the ESRC funded Representative Audit of Britain, which surveyed all candidates standing in the 2015, 2017 and 2019 British general elections. She is one of two principal investigators of the ERC (UKRI) Synergy Project QUALREP, with Professor Sarah Childs (University of Edinburgh), which attempts to measure the quality of women’s political representation in five European countries.

She has co-authored reports for the Fawcett Society, the Expert Panel on Electoral Reform for the Welsh Assembly, the EHRC, BBC Radio Four’s Woman’s Hour, the Electoral Commission, the Fabian Women’s Network and the Hansard Society.

Rosie has presented eight episodes of Radio Four’s Analysis most recently on ‘Does it matter who our MPs are?’

PhD Supervision

Rosie is interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of public opinion, political behaviour, political representation and gender and politics.