Mary Sanford

Mary is a postdoctoral researcher at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) in Milan, Italy. Her research interests lie at the intersection of social science, data science, and environmental politics. She combines qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse complex issues related to the advancement of environmental activism and policy. At the EIEE, she works on the EU Horizon CAPABLE project, investigating public acceptability of climate policy, the role of political actors, and assessments of approaches to citizen engagement. 

Mary completed her Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in 2023, funded by the UKRI's Economic and Social Research Council. In 2021-2022, she worked for the Science, Technology, and Innovation Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). She earned an MSc in Computational Social Science from Oxford in 2018 and a Bachelors in Cognitive Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017.

She is also affiliated with the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN), hosted by Brown University and the Centre for Research on Geography, Resources, Environment, Energy & Networks (Green) at Bocconi University

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