Liam F. Beiser-McGrath

Dr Liam F. Beiser-McGrath is an Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy in the Department of Social Policy, Associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Affiliate of the Data Science Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Liam is an Editor for the journal Environmental Politics and the organiser of EPG Online, an online seminar series covering Environmental Politics and Governance. Their research primarily focuses on the political feasibility of efforts to tackle climate change and environmental problems, using experimental research designs and machine learning.

Current topics include:

1.    How the design of policy can increase public support for tackling climate change and environmental problems.
2.   How individuals' economic conditions, and economic inequality more broadly, affects willingness to support costly climate policy.
3.   The importance of international action and ambition in building support for meaningful emissions reductions.

Liam's research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Climate Change, the Journal of Politics, Science Advances, European Journal of Political Research, Comparative Political Studies, Political Analysis, Climatic Change, Political Science Research & Methods, Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Politics, the Journal of European Social Policy, Regulation and Governance, Electoral Studies, and the Journal of Public Policy.

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