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The Campaign Lab Library is a growing collection of what we’ve built and learned – from AI tools and field-tested guides to research briefings and campaign resources.
Everything here is made to be useful. Whether you’re running a local campaign, designing an experiment, or just looking for ideas, this is where we publish what might help others across the ecosystem.
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- Greying Gap
It is well established that older people tend to vote conservative, and this holds strongly in the UK: from 2017, age has replaced class as the primary voting indicator, and the gap between the voting preferences of older and younger people continues to grow. In this Academic Series event, Dr Laura Serra joined us to […]
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Political parties increasingly rely on sympathisers becoming activists – spreading messages, donating money, and volunteering time. However, activism is inherently costly in time and money to the individual, leading modern parties to an important question: how can parties turn sympathy into action? Francisco (Paco) Tomas-Valiente is a PhD student studying how parties use moral rhetoric […]
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Problem Addressed Local journalism in the UK has been in long-term decline. Newsroom closures, consolidation, and cuts have left many communities with little or no dedicated local reporting. In some areas, residents now live in so-called “news deserts”, where there is no regular professional coverage of local affairs. At the same time, many people increasingly […]
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- Ward Watch
Project Link Problem Addressed It can be difficult to keep track of all developments at a ward level. Its critical to have up to date info if you are researching your opposition to understand where they have failed, or a local campaigner trying to identify key achievements to build a hyper-local campaign. Approach & Implementation […]
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Project Link Problem Addressed Unions do incredible work, but it can be hard to keep track of the wide range of concrete wins they deliver for their members. Approach & Implementation Campaign Lab volunteer Chris Owen built this tool to address these challenges. It uses AI to surface and monitor union wins, displaying them in […]
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Executive Summary This report details the findings of a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) conducted during the Leamington Clarendon local by-election. The study sought to test whether presenting Labour-likely voters with specific, ward-level local issues (such as pothole repairs and planning permissions) would increase voter turnout. Despite a small-scale yet well-executed deployment, the intervention yielded no […]
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Last month, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. James Ackland, a postdoc from the University of Glasgow’s Geospatial Data Science Group, who shared fascinating insights into how where we live influences how we vote. If you’ve ever wondered why polling can be spot-on in some areas but wildly off in others, this session offered […]
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Campaigners often assume that people are more likely to be persuaded by someone who looks or sounds like them, someone of a similar age, gender, or background. After all, research has long shown that we tend to trust people who seem “like us.” But a new study challenges that assumption head-on. In their paper, Shared […]
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