Dr Ursula Hackett is Reader in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. In the academic year 2023-4 she was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow. She is currently the Vice Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange for the School of Law and Social Sciences.
Her award-winning book, America’s Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State is out with Cambridge University Press. She has published her research in journals such as Perspectives on Politics, Policy Studies Journal, Studies in American Political Development, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and Politics and Religion.