Roosmarijn de Geus, PhD

I am a political scientist specializing in the study of elections, gender, and public policy. My research examines how attitudes toward gender and gender roles shape politics. Currently, I am working on a project that investigates public preferences on parental leave policies across OECD countries.

In my research, I primarily employ large-scale surveys of voters and households, frequently integrating these with census and electoral data. I also have extensive experience designing and conducting online experiments. In addition, I have contributed to two major national survey projects: from 2017 to 2019, I worked with the Canada-based Local Parliament Project, and from 2019 to 2021, I worked with the British Election Study.

I hold a PhD from the University of Oxford and was employed as a lecturer (Assistant Professor equivalent) at the University of Reading (2021-2023). Here I taught courses on comparative politics, British politics and gender. In January 2023 my family and I moved to Ottawa, Canada. I currently work as a senior Economist with the Canadian federal government.

My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as The British Journal of Political Science; Comparative Political Studies and the Canadian Journal of Political Science. I also co-edited a volume on Women, Power and Representation in Canada and beyond with University of Toronto Press.