Sir John Kevin Curtice was born on 10 December 1953 and is a British political scientist who is currently Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde and Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Social Research.
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John Curtice is particularly interested in electoral behaviour and researching political and social attitudes.
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John Curtice took a keen interest in the debate about Scottish independence.
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John Curtice grew up in St Austell and was educated at Truro School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read politics, philosophy and economics, and later transferred to Nuffield College as a postgraduate.
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John Curtice serves as President of the British Polling Council, vice-chair of the Economic and Social Data Service's Advisory Committee and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Elections, the Executive Committee of the British Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and the Policy Advisory Committee of the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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John Curtice was formerly a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and a member of the steering committee of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Project.
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John Curtice has picked up a strong following on social media, and was mentioned frequently on Twitter during the 2017 election, though he shuns this attention, adding "I've no wish to become a media celebrity".
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John Curtice was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1992 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004.
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John Curtice was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to the Social Sciences and Politics.
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John Curtice is married to a medical sociologist with one daughter.
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