Jennifer Lees-Marshment is Professor of Political Marketing and Management in the School of Business. Professor Lees-Marshment is a world-renowned inter-disciplinary scholar in the field of Political Marketing, and leading new research in the emerging field of Political Management, including HRM and wellbeing. 

Professor Lees-Marshment is a practice-oriented academic and passionate about research impact and employability. Author/editor of 20 books, she has interviewed over 350 political practitioners including government ministers and staffers/advisors to Prime Ministers and Presidents in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Experienced in commentating in the media, she advised TVNZ on Vote Compass in New Zealand elections.

Jennifer is an interdisciplinary academic and has worked in both business and politics schools/departments, teaching and publishing across multiple disciplines.

She previously worked at the University of Auckland in New Zealand where she led developments to create employability initiatives in the Faculty of Arts, and in both management and political science departments at the Universities of Aberdeen and Keele in the UK.

Professor Lees-Marshment has a pragmatist research philosophy, seeking to use research to uncover the realities of political practice and generate best practice advice.  

Jennifer’s most recent work has focused on political marketing in elections in the UK, US, Canada and New Zealand and laying conceptual foundations in the field of political management. Her most recent book is The Human Resource Management of Political Staffers, for which she interviewed advisors to former Prime Ministers Boris Johnson, Jacinda Ardern and Scott Morrison and current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Jennifer has also edited a book Political Management in Practice featuring cases on different aspects of political management from around the globe.

Jennifer co-edited a book on Political Marketing and Management in the UK 2024 election.

Political Marketing - Political Management - Political Leadership - Political Psychology - Well-being and mental health - Political Communication - Government - Parties - Campaigns - Elections - Human Resource Management - Political Advisers - Political Staffers - Politicians