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The print edition of UK Election Analysis 2019: Media, Voters and the Campaign, edited by Bournemouth academics Daniel Jackson, Einar Thorsen, Darren Lilleker and Nathalie Weidhase was launched on Friday 31^stJanuary as part of the ‘Election 2019: The Brexit Campaign?’ event at Loughborough University London. The event was jointly organised by Loughborough University’s Centre for Research in Communication and Culture and Ipsos MORI, in conjunction with the British Polling Council. Election 2019 brought together academics, polling experts and journalists, including polling expert John Curtice (Strathclyde University), the BBC’s Chief Political Advisor Ric Bailey and IPSOS Mori’s Head of Social Intelligence Analytics Tara Beard-Knowland.

Amongst the presenters were also a number of UK Election Analysis 2019 contributors: David Deacon and Dominic Wring(Loughborough University) presented early results from their election media analysis, Emily Harmer(University of Liverpool) showcased preliminary data on online media’s engagement with the general election, and Declan McDowell-Naylor(Cardiff University) highlighted the role alternative online media could play in election campaigns.

The event concluded with Ivor Gaber’s tale on ‘strategic lying’ in the general election campaign, a paper based on his contribution to UK Election Analysis 2019, and a short introduction to the report by Nathalie Weidhase.

Since its online publication on 23^rdDecember 2019, the report PDF has been downloaded 1,738 times, with nearly 15,000 hits on the www.electionanalysis.uk website.

Featuring 85 contributions from over 100 leading UK and international academics, the publication captures the immediate thoughts, reflections and early research insights on the 2019 UK General Election from the cutting edge of media and politics research.