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Engagement and Events

Engage and interact on economic, political, and social approaches to understanding climate change and the environment.

The Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub is hosting its inaugural workshop on Tuesday 24th June 2025. 

The workshop aims to bring together researchers who are working on the social dimensions of climate change and the environment, and policy responses to these challenges. In doing so, we aim to showcase cutting edge research, provide researchers with valuable feedback, and offer a platform for scholars to build their networks and explore future research directions in this growing field.
Read more here.


 

Environmental Politics and Governance () Online seminar series at the Department of Social Policy, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. 

If you want to keep up to date with the latest information from the EPG Online network, please . 
For any questions related to the seminar series, please email the academic organiser Dr Liam Beiser-McGrath.

 

Details of future seminars in the series will be added here in due course

 

Archive 2024/25

 

3 April 2025

Green industrial policy in the voting booth: The electoral effects of the Inflation Reduction Act  
Aidan Miao (University College London)
Politics of the energy transition: a case study of electric vehicles policy from South Asia  
Anum Mustafa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  

 

20 March 2025

How Politics Percolates Through Science
Dahyun Choi (Princeton University)

Social Discontent and Populist Backlashes in Europe's Green Transition
Mahir Yazar (University of Bergen) 

 

13 March 2025

Political signaling drives China's carbon market, not market signals
Chen Xiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Natural Disasters and the Electability of Women: Evidence from Philippine Mayoral Elections
Holly Jansen (University of California San Diego)

 

6 March 2025

Greening in Groups: Firm Concentration and Lobbying on Green Industrial Policy
Ryan Pike (Yale University)  

Supply Chains and Political Strategies: Analyzing Firm Responses to the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism  
Lingbo Zhao (Penn State University)

 

20 February 2025

Do climate events drive support for climate change policies?
Cèlia Estruch-Garcia (University of Barcelona)  


Safety Net or Self Reliance? U.S. Public Opinion on Federal Aid After Natural Disasters
Angie Jo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Rachael Kha (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

5th December 2024

Climate Change, Political Conflict, and Democratic Resilience
Austin Beacham (Georgia Institue of Technology), Christina J. Schneider (UCSD), and Emilie M. Hafner-Burton (UCSD)    

Chasing the Sun: The Political Economy of Solar Industry Investment in the Global South
Ishana Ratan (UC Berkeley)

 

21st November 2024

Towards an environmental welfare state? Protecting populations against environmental risks and disasters in the age of the climate crisis.
Lydie Cabane (Leiden University) and Anne Laure Beaussier (Sciences Po)     

The Role of Social Protection for a Just Transition in Developing and Emerging Economies
Katrin Gasior (Southern African Social Policy Research Insights)     

 

7th November 2024

More than Symbols : The Effect of Symbolic Policies on Climate Policy Support
Théodore Tallent (Sciences Po), Malo Jan (Sciences Po), and Luis Sattelmayer (Sciences Po)

Cost, Risk, and Threat: The Material & Contextual Factors Driving Climate Policy Preferences
Max Bradley (EUI)- Max Bradley will present in person at 5.00pm.

 

24th October 2024

Does Warm Weather Cool Voters Down? How Temperature Fluctuations Impact Voting and Climate Concerns
Maria Cotofan (King's College London) Karly Kuralbayeva (King's College London), and Konstantinos Matakos (King's College London and Harvard)

Measuring Climate Change Salience in Political Manifestos: A Computational Text Analysis Approach
Mary Sanford (RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment)