Anna Killick
Anna’s focus is public understanding of the economy. She was previously a secondary school teacher of history and politics before completing a PhD at the University of Southampton, where she conducted ethnographic research into how understanding of the broad phenomenon of ‘the economy’ varied between different social groups. Since 2019 she has been part of the University College London research team exploring mental models of the political economy, responsible for interviewing politicians from the main political parties in the UK, USA, France, Germany and Denmark. She has published on public understanding of the economy; in a MUP monograph ‘Rigged: understanding ‘the economy’ in Brexit Britain’ and for journals such as BJPIR. Anna is also Special Sections Editor of the Political Quarterly journal.