Professor Federica Genovese awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize

Professor Federica Genovese, St Antony’s Governing Body Fellow and Professor of Political Science and International Relations, has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research on the roots and configurations of climate politics around the world.

Professor Genovese is one of the first political scientists to push for a distributional understanding of the conflict that societies are experiencing around climate mitigation and adaptation policies. Her research encompasses various levels of political action, combining the study of international climate negotiations with the mapping of local level attitudes among the public but also firms. Her work leverages administrative, institutional and behavioural data, and her observational and experimental analyses have focused on Global North as well as Global South countries. Professor Genovese has published in leading political science outlets and her research has received support from various grants including a Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award, a Balzan Foundation award, a World Bank grant, and other foundations.

“I am beyond honoured to win a Philip Leverhulme Prize. I thank my mentors, co-authors, colleagues and family for championing me and encouraging me to freely and ambitiously explore research questions I am passionate about. The prize will allow me to expand my research on the subnational politics and political economy of climate vulnerability. I am very excited that the Trust has chosen me to push this line of research.”rn

Professor Genovese will use the prize money towards investigating the politics of geolocated firms exposed to costly climate policy adoption and climate change-induced asset erosion. She will conduct detailed research into how firms that are exposed to these climate risks mobilize for or against climate policy, collecting data from various European countries as well as emerging economies.

The Philip Leverhulme Prizes are awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to researchers at an early stage of their careers whose work has had international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising – to use for any research purpose.