Susanna Garside

I am a scholar of environmental and climate change politics working as a Postdoctoral Researcher from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. I received my PhD in political science at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in June 2025.

My work focuses on public opinion and political behaviour related to climate change, the politics of environmental change, and the political economy of climate change mitigation and adaptation. I am currently working on the Climate Vulnerability Project, led by Federica Genovese.

Publications

Garside, Susanna & Haoyu Zhai. 2022. If not now when? Climate disaster and the Green vote following the 2021 Germany Floods, Research & Politics, 9(4). (Data and Replication Files)

Garside, Susanna. 2020. Democracy and Digital Authoritarianism: An Assessment of the EU’s External Engagement in the Promotion and Protection of Internet Freedom. EU Diplomacy Papers 1/2020.

Work in Progress

Bradley, Max, Rens Chazottes, Susanna Garside & Nina Lopez-Uroz. Educational Climate Workshops Can Increase Support for Costly Climate Policies.

Garside, Susanna. Public Attention to Climate Change after Major Disasters.

Teaching

MA Course: The Politics of Climate Change Adaptation, University of Lucerne, Autumn 2024. (Student Course Evaluations)