Siim Trumm

Contact

• workLaw and Social Sciences
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Siim.Trumm@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Siim Trumm is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations. Siim joined the University of Nottingham in 2016, having previously worked at Swansea University and the University of Sheffield. Siim received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Exeter in 2013, and was awarded Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2018.

Siim's research has been published in leading international journals, including the European Journal of Political Research, the British Journal of Political Science, Political Studies, and the British Journal of Politics and International Relations. He is the Principal Investigator of the BBSRC funded "Using Citizen Science to Promote Transparency in British Election Campaigns" grant and runs the OpenElections project with Prof Caitlin Milazzo and Dr Alan Duggan. He also conducts the Estonian Candidate Study and the Welsh Candidate Study.

His current research agenda focuses on gender and electoral campaigns, political communication, and questions of political representation.

Siim Trumm - Curriculum Vitae.

Teaching Summary

Siim's teaching focuses primarily on British politics, elections and campaigns, political representation, and survey research. He has also previously delivered modules in public policy, European… read more

Recent Publications

• ALAN DUGGAN, CAITLIN MILAZZO and SIIM TRUMM, 2025. Local leaflets: Constituency issue messaging at the 2024 General Election Political Quarterly. 96(1), 111-119
• TRUMM, SIIM, 2025. Campaign personalisation at the 2023 Estonian parliamentary election Representation.
• TINDALL, CALLUM and TRUMM, SIIM, 2024. Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain British Politics. 19, 334-354
• MILAZZO, CAITLIN and TRUMM, SIIM, 2024. Local campaign messaging at the 2024 General Election. In: JACKSON, DAN, PARRY, KATY, HARMER, EMILY, LILLEKER, DARREN, WRIGHT, SCOTT, FIRMSTONE, JULIE and THORSEN, EINAR, eds., UK election analysis 2024: Media, voters and the campaign

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I am interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas:

• Gender and political representation
• Elections and campaigns
• Political participation
• Political communication
• Legislative politics and political parties

Supervision of successfully completed PhD theses:

• Dr Esmeralda Bon - "The Battle for Britain: Contemporary Communication by MPs"
• Dr Junyan Zhu - "The Internet, Social Media and Citizen Politics"

Ongoing supervision of PhD students:

• Kieran Hopewell - "Can British print-media accommodate a deliberative system: An exploration into the deliberative quality and compatibility of British print-media"

Siim's teaching focuses primarily on British politics, elections and campaigns, political representation, and survey research. He has also previously delivered modules in public policy, European Union studies, comparative politics, and quantitative research methods.

• ALAN DUGGAN, CAITLIN MILAZZO and SIIM TRUMM, 2025. Local leaflets: Constituency issue messaging at the 2024 General Election Political Quarterly. 96(1), 111-119
• TRUMM, SIIM, 2025. Campaign personalisation at the 2023 Estonian parliamentary election Representation.
• TINDALL, CALLUM and TRUMM, SIIM, 2024. Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain British Politics. 19, 334-354
• MILAZZO, CAITLIN and TRUMM, SIIM, 2024. Local campaign messaging at the 2024 General Election. In: JACKSON, DAN, PARRY, KATY, HARMER, EMILY, LILLEKER, DARREN, WRIGHT, SCOTT, FIRMSTONE, JULIE and THORSEN, EINAR, eds., UK election analysis 2024: Media, voters and the campaign
• SUDULICH, LAURA, TRUMM, SIIM and MAKROPOULOS, IAKOVOS, 2024. Running uphill: A comparative analysis of the gender gap in campaign financing European Journal of Political Research.
• JOSHUA TOWNSLEY, STUART J. TURNBULL-TUGARTE, SIIM TRUMM and CAITLIN MILAZZO, 2023. Who votes by post? Understanding the drivers of postal voting in the 2019 British general election Parliamentary Affairs. 76(1), 43-61
• TRUMM, SIIM and BARCLAY, ANDREW, 2023. Parliamentary representation: Should MPs prioritise their own views or those of their voters? Political Studies. 71(4), 1151-1170
• SIIM TRUMM, CAITLIN MILAZZO and ALAN DUGGAN, 2023. Parliamentary candidates and their campaign messages at the 2019 General Election Politics. 45(2), 314-330
• TRUMM, SIIM, 2022. Online versus offline: Exploring the link between how candidates campaign and how voters cast their ballot European Journal of Political Research. 61(2), 485-502
• JOSHUA TOWNSLEY, SIIM TRUMM and CAITLIN MILAZZO, 2022. ‘The personal touch’: Campaign personalisation in Britain The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 24(4), 702-722
• TRUMM, SIIM and SUDULICH, LAURA, 2022. A longitudinal study of online campaigning in the most digitally advanced society in the world Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 32(4), 960-979
• TRUMM, SIIM, 2022. Winning votes: The comparative importance of money and time on parliamentary candidates’ electoral performance in Estonia East European Politics. 38(3), 427-445
• TRUMM, SIIM, 2021. Explaining support for Brexit among parliamentary candidates: The case of Wales British Politics. 16(1), 58-73
• MILAZZO, CAITLIN, TRUMM, SIIM and TOWNSLEY, JOSHUA, 2021. Crowdsourcing campaigns: A new dataset for studying British parties' election communications Political Studies Review. 19(3), 520-527
• SUDULICH, LAURA, TRUMM, SIIM and BRIDGEWATER, JACK, 2020. Parliamentary representation: A cross-national study of candidates’ views Parliamentary Affairs. 73(3), 522-542
• TRUMM, SIIM, MILAZZO, CAITLIN and TOWNSLEY, JOSHUA, 2020. The 2016 EU referendum: Explaining support for Brexit among would-be British MPs Political Studies. 68(4), 819-836
• SUDULICH, LAURA and TRUMM, SIIM, 2019. A comparative study of the effects of electoral institutions on campaigns British Journal of Political Science. 49(1), 381-399
• TRUMM, SIIM, 2019. Renewed electoral pitch for independence in Wales. In: JACKSON, DANIEL, THORSEN, EINAR, LILLEKER, DARREN and WEIDHASE, NATHALIE, eds., UK election analysis 2019: Media, voters and the campaign
• TRUMM, SIIM and SUDULICH, LAURA, 2018. What does it take to make it to the polling station? The effects of campaign activities on electoral participation Party Politics. 24(2), 168-184
• TRUMM, SIIM, 2018. Representation in Wales: An empirical analysis of the policy divisions between voters and candidates The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 20(2), 425-440
• TRUMM, SIIM, 2018. The best of both worlds? Evaluating the campaign behaviour of dual candidates Electoral Studies. 56, 14-22
• SIIM TRUMM, 2018. The ‘new’ wave of populist right-wing parties in Central and Eastern Europe: Explaining electoral support for the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia Representation. 54(4), 331-347
• TRUMM, SIIM, SUDULICH, LAURA and TOWNSLEY, JOSHUA, 2017. Information effect on voter turnout: How campaign spending mobilises voters Acta Politica. 52(4), 461-478
• TRUMM, SIIM, 2016. What does it take to get elected in a post-communist democracy? Explaining the success and failure of parliamentary candidates in Estonia East European Politics and Societies. 30(1), 169-188
• TRUMM, SIIM, 2015. Voting procedures and parliamentary representation in the European Parliament Journal of Common Market Studies. 53(5), 1126–1142
• BOLLEYER, NICOLE and TRUMM, SIIM, 2014. From parliamentary pay to party funding: The acceptability of informal institutions in advanced democracies European Journal of Political Research. 53(4), 784–802
• BOLLEYER, NICOLE, TRUMM, SIIM and BANDUCCI, SUSAN A., 2013. Towards an organizational perspective on party funding: Explaining financial transfers from MEPs to their national parties European Journal of Political Research. 52(2), 237–263