MARY SANFORD

Mary is a postdoctoral researcher at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) in Milan, Italy. She holds an MSc and DPhil in Social Data Science from the University of Oxford. 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 climate activism and policy. At EIEE, she works on the EU Horizon project CAPABLE, investigating public acceptability of environmental policy, the role of political actors, and assessments of approaches to citizen engagement.