Dr Joel Rogers de Waal

Academic Director, YouGov

Joel is Academic Director at YouGov and a polling researcher specialised in political behaviour. He is also a research associate at Cambridge University and life member of Clare Hall college. Joel has been a captain in the British Army, specialist reserves, focused on information operations. He has a doctorate and master's in international studies from Cambridge and an officer commission from Sandhurst Military Academy. His writing includes a forthcoming Penguin book, ‘The Secret Life of Public Opinion’, co-authored with YouGov founder and CEO, Stephan Shakespeare.

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China’s reputation declines while America’s gets a boost

Westerners have limited appetite for concessions to Russia

Globalism Project 2021: Highlights & Methodology

Be reassured: the world is not as divided as we might think

One year on: how has the pandemic affected personal lives?

One year on: global update on public attitudes to government handling of Covid

Europeans want climate action but not lifestyle change

What matters to the English after Covid?

Multilateral backing key to public support for military operations in Africa

What is the value of free digital goods?

Has China’s Reputation Peaked?

The Globalist-Nativist Divide Is a Damaging Caricature

Globalism Project 2020: populist beliefs down but conspiracy beliefs up?

Is this an age of division? Our research reveals a more complicated reality

Western attitudes to China are hardening

Lockdown led to happiness rebound

Public attitudes to ransom payment: the policy works until it gets personal

Save key workers over the Royal Family or Cabinet, say the public

Will this virus make us less divided?

Is climate concern a phantom populism?

The British public still believes in NATO – even if most of us can’t say what it does

What's D-Day? - says half of British respondents

There is no mass public revolt against globalisation

About the YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project

Event: In conversation with Tony Blair

Event: The new populism - A threat to democracy?

China struggles for Western hearts and minds

Britain’s changing expectations on the impact of Brexit

Western/MENA attitudes to religion portray a lack of faith in common values

Palm oil awareness and ecolabel responsiveness

Brexit and Trump voters are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories

The decision to go to war: how voters misunderstand its legal basis

The Trump protests were a backhanded compliment to America

The public has limited belief in age-based stereotypes

Public opinion and the social media crisis

Environmentalism and the value-action gap