John Curtice

Early life and education Curtice was born on 10 December 1953 in Redruth, and grew up in St Austell, Cornwall. In an interview with The Guardian, Curtice said his interest in electoral behaviour began when he was allowed to stay up to watch a results show on television at the 1964 election. The son of a construction worker and a part-time market researcher, he was privately educated at Truro School from 1965 to 1972, and the University of Oxford where he was an undergraduate student and choral scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford reading philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) and graduating in 1976. He was a contemporary of Tony Blair Curtice was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Liverpool from 1983 to 1988, then a lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of Strathclyde from 1988 to 1997 With David Firth he developed the methodology for the exit poll estimation used in the general election coverage. He has picked up a strong following on social media, and was mentioned frequently on Twitter during the 2017 election, though he shuns this attention, adding "I've no wish to become a media celebrity".

Books Curtice is an author and co-author of several books including:

British Social Attitudes: the 24th report (ed. with A. Park, K. Thomson, M. Phillips, M. Johnson and E. Clery), London: Sage, 2008 In 2017, he was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).

Personal life Curtice married Lisa Joan Riding in 1978. who later retrained as a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church. They have one daughter Their daughter, Ruth Curtice, is the chief executive of the Resolution Foundation.

Curtice is a member of the National Liberal Club. Curtice and Riding previously lived in the West End district of Glasgow but have since moved to Port Glasgow in Inverclyde due to Riding becoming the new rector of St Mary's Episcopal Church.