Patrick Dunleavy is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He worked in the Department of Government at LSE from 1979 to 2020, and before that at the Open University and Nuffield College, Oxford. He is also Emeritus Professor of Government at the University of Canberra, where he was Centenary Professor 2015-21. A Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences, he also served as Founding Editor in Chief at LSE Press from 2020-2023. He was Director of the UK Democratic Audit from 2013-2020 and co-led the Australian Democratic Audit from 2020 to 2024. His recent books include Australia's Evolving Democracy: A New Democratic Audit (open access from LSE Press, 2024, co-edited with Mark Evans and John Phillimore); Maximizing the Impacts of Academic Research, (2021, Palgrave, now Bloomsbury Press, co-authored with Jane Tinkler); and The UK's Changing Democracy: A New Democratic Audit (open access from LSE Press, 2018, co-edited with Alice Park and Rosamund Taylor).