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Congratulations to Political Science professor, Dr. Mark Pickup, on winning the 2025 Research Excellence Award in the Social Sciences. The Research Excellence Award is given to recognize Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researchers who have produced sustained and impactful scholarly output and achieved national and international recognition throughout their careers. 

Dr. Pickup is specialized in teaching Political political Behaviourbehaviour, Political political Psychology psychology and Political political Methodologymethodology. His area of research primarily revolves around: political identities and political decision-making; conditions of democratic responsiveness and accountability; and polls and electoral outcomes. Through his research work, he focuses on political information, public opinion, political identities, norms and election campaigns within North American and European countries. His methodological interests concern the analysis of longitudinal data (time series, panel, network, etc.) with secondary interests in Bayesian analysis and survey/lab experiment design.

Earlier this year, Dr. Pickup also received the prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant for his research work, ‘Norms-based Interventions to Support the Canadian Democratic Belief System’, which will be conducted by the Complex Social Problems Research Space (CPRS) in the Department of Political Science. 

With Dr. Mark Pickup as the project leader, the research space brings together policy practitioners and behavioural researchers, and utilize their expertise in public policy, behavioural science, and political communication. The CPRS researchers will put their expertise in developing and testing interventions on how to improve public policy, reduce political intolerance, mitigate the stereotyping and discrimination of vulnerable groups, and reverse the erosion of democratic norms.

To know more about Dr. Mark Pickup’s wide range of publications and research work, please visit the faculty profile here.