Robert Waller

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Robert Waller (b. September 1955, Stoke-on-Trent, England) is a British election expert, author, teacher, and former opinion pollster. His best known published work is The Almanac of British Politics^[1] (8 editions, 1983–2007), a guide to the voting patterns of all United Kingdom parliamentary constituencies.

Education and Career

Educated at Buxton College secondary school, Derbyshire, and Oxford University: BA History (congratulatory first class, 1977), Balliol College, Oxford; Senior Scholar, Merton College, Oxford; MA and D Phil History 1981. Prize Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1980–84, Lecturer and Tutor in Politics, Trinity College, Oxford 1984-85; Lecturer and Tutor in History, Wadham College, Oxford 1985-86, Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame London Program 1983-86. Waller's Oxford University doctoral thesis was published in 1983 as an OUP Historical Monograph The Dukeries Transformed, an authoritative history of the Dukeries coalfield.

In survey research 1986-98, Research Director of the Harris Research Centre, responsible for national opinion polling; Wirthlin Europe.

Since 1998 in secondary school teaching: Brighton College; Dame Alice Harpur School, Bedford; Haileybury, Hertford; and since 2001 head of History and Politics, Greenacre School for Girls, Banstead, Surrey.

From 2008 until the 2010 General Election, Dr Waller contributed a monthly column to Total Politics magazine.^[2]

Bibliography

• The Dukeries Transformed (OUP, 1983; ISBN 0-19-821896-6)
• The Almanac of British Politics 8 editions: 1. April 1983 (Croom Helm) ISBN 0-7099-2767-3; 2. October 1983 (Croom Helm) ISBN 0-7099-2789-4; 3. 1987 (Croom Helm) ISBN 0-7099-2798-3; 4. 1991 (Routledge) ISBN 0-415-00508-6; 5. 1995 (Routledge) ISBN 0-415-11805-0; 6. 1999 (Routledge) ISBN 0-415-18541-6; 7. 2002 (Routledge) ISBN 0-415-26834-6; 8. 2007 (Routledge) ISBN 978-0-415-37823-9. 5th and subsequent editions co-authored with Byron Criddle.
• The Atlas of British Politics (Croom Helm, 1985; ISBN 0-7099-3609-5).
• Moulding Political Opinion (Croom Helm, 1988; ISBN 0-7099-5230-9), with Ken Livingstone and Sir Geoffrey Finsberg.

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