Dr Lauren Leek
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Postdoctoral Researcher DIVIDED
Postdoctoral Researcher DIVIDED
Areas of interest
- Political economy (central banks, economic inequality)
- Social data science (data visualisation, natural language processing, LLMs, causal inference)
Background
Lauren is a quantitative social scientist/ social data scientist passionate about innovative data and measurement in political economy and political science applications. She is a postdoctoral researcher in computational social sciences in the DIVIDED project and a (part-time) senior research scientist at the Verian Group UK. She is also currently a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics Data Science Institute and member of the Public Opinion Analytics Lab. During her PhD at the European University Institute, she has written extensively on central bank independence and communication, has been a PhD trainee at the European Central Bank in DG Economics and a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics.Professional bodies/affiliations
LSE Data Science Institute and Public Opinion Analytics Lab
Selected publications
Leek, L., Bischl, S. How Central Bank Independence Shapes Central Bank Communication: A Large Language Model Application. European Journal of Political Economy (2025).
Genschel, P., Leek, L., Weyns, J. War and Integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the Institutional development of the EU. Journal of European Integration (2023).