Katelyn Nutley
PhD Candidate
Katelyn Nutley is a doctoral candidate in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, supported by the Handsel Scholarship, having previously begun her Ph.D. studies in Political Science at the University of Cologne. Prior to her current position, she served as a Lecturer at the University of Cologne, teaching “Explaining Public Service Outcomes” at the undergraduate level. She holds a joint Honours B.A. in International Relations from the University of St Andrews and the College of William & Mary, an M.A. in Comparative Politics and Policy Analysis from the University of Konstanz, and an M.Sc. in International Administration and Global Governance from the University of Gothenburg.
As a computational social scientist, Ms. Nutley specialises in quantitative methods, few-shot prompting, machine learning, web scraping, geospatial analysis, regression analysis and text-as-data approaches. Her dissertation investigates the dynamics of democratic policing, with particular emphasis on how partisanship influences police response to political actors through the lens of representation, visibility and policy implementation.
Her published research includes work on gender citation in European Political Science, with a forthcoming paper examining the impact of environmental protest on legislative response. She has presented her work at both the European Political Science Association (EPSA) and the American Political Science Association (APSA). Currently, Ms. Nutley serves as a Quantitative Analyst for the PeaceRep Project (MEND subproject), a collaborative initiative between the University of St Andrews and the University of Edinburgh. She is also an Early Career Researcher with The British Academy, a contributor to Chatham House, and an affiliate of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR).