Lisa Dellmuth, PhD, is Professor of International Relations at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on questions of legitimacy, distribution, and climate cooperation in global governance. Her research is published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Climate Policy, and PNAS. Lisa is principal investigator of GlocalClim and examines how and why international organizations integrate climate risks, and when global adaptation governance is fair and legitimate.

 

 

Maria-Therese Gustafsson, PhD, is Associate Professor in Political Science at Stockholm University. Prominent themes in her research are local natural resource governance, social movements and political participation, and ethnographic research in rural areas in the global south. Her work has been published in journals such as Environmental Science & Policy, Extractive Industries and Society, Third World Quarterly, and WIREs Climate Change. Within the GlocalClim project, Maria-Therese studies the effects of global governance responses to climate risks on climate change adaptation in the global south. 

 

Therese Christoffersson is a research assistant at the Department of Economic History and International Relations at Stockholm University and a Master student in Global Political Economy. Her research interests include climate change, food security, agricultural production, and the global division of labour and labour migration. Within the GlocalClim Project, she coordinates the project team's work on outreach and contributes with quantitative data analysis. 

 

 

David Fornborg is a research assistant at the Department of Economic History and International Relations at Stockholm University and a Master student taking a degree in economic history. He contributes with quantitative data analysis, visualizations, and has an interest in applying natural language processing techniques to text and social media data. 

 

 

 

Max Gyrnik

Max Girnyk, PhD, is an Affiliated Researcher at the Department of Economic History and International Relations at Stockholm University. Within the GlocalClim project, he contributes with expertise in Machine Learning for research on climate change adaptation, international organizations, and textual analysis methodology. 

 

 

 

 

Darren Halpin

Darren Halpin is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University. He has held tenured academic positions previously in the UK and Denmark. His research focuses on organized interests in politics (interest groups, thinks tanks, corporations, and lobbyists) and political representation, and the connections between the two. He has published in outlets such as the British Journal of Political Science, Governance, Journal of Public Policy and Journal of Public Administration. His latest book, with Anthony J. Nownes, The New Entrepreneurial Advocacy: Silicon Valley Elites in American Politics, is out with Oxford University Press. In GlocalClim he investigates the commitments of transnational corporations to sustainable development outcomes globally.

 

Jorge E. Rodríguez-Morales has a PhD in comparative environmental governance and works as a doctoral researcher in International Relations at the Department of Economic History and International Relations of Stockholm University. His research interests are the links between environmental governance, sustainable development, and institutional change. His work has been published in journals such as Energy Research & Social Science, Sustainability Science, and Sustainable Earth, as well as in the IPCC Special report on Climate Change and Land. Within the GlocalClim project, he engages in a comparative analysis of climate change adaptation in Latin America.

 

Suanne Segovia-Tzompa is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the Department of Economic History and International Relations of Stockholm University. She is interested in the intersection between international relations and environmental issues, focusing on the specific case of Indigenous Peoples. Suanne has an MSc in Environmental Change and International Development from the University of Sheffield, UK. Within the GlocalClim project, she analyses the legitimacy perceptions of Indigenous Peoples towards the United Nations climate change regime.

 

Karina Shyrokykh, PhD, is Associate Professor of International Relations at Stockholm University. Her research interests include European Union governance in European Neighbourhood Policy countries, international public administration networks, and effects of external democracy promotion. Her research has been published inter alia in European Journal of Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Democratization, Europe-Asia Studies, and Governance. Within GlocalClim, Karina focuses on climate cooperation in the European Neighborhood, and the framing of adaptation in international organizations.

 

 

Isabella Strindevall is a research assistant at the department of Political Science and at the Department of Economic History and International Relations at Stockholm University. She holds a masters degree in Political Science with a specialization in Environmental Social Studies. Her research interests include climate adaptation, natural resource governance and political ecology. She contributes to the GlocalClim project with qualitative data collection and analysis.

 

Evelina Jonsson is a research assistant at the Department of Economic History and International Relations at Stockholm University and a Master's in International Relations with a specialisation in Global Political Economy. Her research interests include climate adaptation and green conversion. She contributes to the GlocalClim research project with quantitative and qualitative data analysis.

 

 

Former staff:

Kristiane Patt

Kristiane Patt is doing a research internship in the GlocalClim project. She is a Master’s student in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. In the past she has been a research and outreach intern at Amnesty International and the Bremen Information Center for Human Rights and Development. Her research interests include the connection of climate change to peace and conflict, especially in terms of how the uncertainty associated with climate change affects the stability of peace. In GlocalClim, Kristiane works on climate-related humanitarian aid and trust.

 

Elisabeth L. Rosvold, PhD. Elisabeth received her PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2019, and her research as a Glocalclim postdoc focused on outreach and the interlinkages between disasters, armed conflict and aid. Her research has been published in the Journal of Development Studies, Development Policy Review, and PNAS