Journal articles
Smith, E.K., Mlakar, Ž., Levis, A., Sanford, M., et al. (2026). Climate policy feasibility across Europe relies on the conditional middle. Nature Climate Change.
Berger, L., Richard, T., Emmerling, J., Epper, T., Eddai, N., Sanford, M., et al. (2026). Beliefs about EU 2030 climate commitments across public, expert, and policy audiences. Environmental Research Letters. 21(5).
Sanford, M., Pianta, S., Schmid, N., & Musto, G. (2025). Policlim: A Dataset of Climate Change Discourse in the Political Manifestos of 45 Countries from 1990-2022. British Journal of Political Science. 2025;55:e131.
How News Media, Climate Anxiety, and Trust Shape Pro-Climate Behaviour Across Eight Countries. (Ejaz, W., Sanford, M., & Fletcher, R.) International Journal of Press/Politics 0(0).
Wetts, R., Morris, H., Boykoff, M., McNally, B., Painter, J., Sanford, M., et al. (2025). Climate media amidst technopolitical change: challenges, transformations, and new directions for research. Climatic Change. 178(115).
Sanford, M. & Painter, J. (2023). Divergences between mainstream and social media discourses after COP26, and why they matter. Oxford Open Climate Change. 4(1).
Ettinger, J., Sanford, M., Painter, J., Walton, P., Holmes, D., & Otto, F. (2023). Social media messaging by climate action NGOs: A case study of the 2019–2020 Australian Black Summer bushfires. Oxford Open Climate Change. 3(1).
Sanford, M., Witkowska, M., Gifford, R., & Formanowicz, M. (2023). Emotional framing in online environmental activism: Pairing a Twitter study with an offline experiment. Frontiers Environmental Psychology. 13(1099331).
Sanford, M. & Lorimer, J. (2022). Veganuary and the vegan sausage (t)rolls: Conflict and commercial engagement in online climate-diet discourse. Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 9(455), 2022.
Lalanne, G., Sanford, M., Kessler, M., & Youcefi, D. (2021). ‘What can we learn from sustainability reports?’ OECD Science, Technology, and Industry Working Papers. Paris: OECD Publishing.
Sanford, M., Painter, J., Yasseri, T., & Lorimer, J. (2021) Controversy around climate change reports: a case study of Twitter responses to the 2019 IPCC report on land. Climatic Change. 167(3), 59.
Sanford, M., Hohlfeld, O., and Henze, M. (2017). Veiled in Clouds? Assessing the Prevalence of Cloud Computing in the Email Landscape. 2017 IEEE/IFIP TMA Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference.
Under review
Sanford, M., Tallent, T., & Picard, J. Blame the Billionaires? Media exposure to carbon inequality polarises climate policy support.
Sanford, M., Mlakar, Ž., Smith, E.K., et al. Public support for climate mitigation and adaptation policies across Europe.
Working papers
Pianta, S., Sanford, M., & Casamassima, A. How accurately do Members of the European Parliament estimate public opinion on climate change mitigation policies?
Sanford, M., Cann, T., & Westwood, N. et al. Climate change in the social media campaigns of European political parties, 2019-2024.
Pianta, S., Sanford, M., & Valentim, A. Elite Cues and Climate Policy Support.
Musto, G., Sanford, M., Pianta, S., Schmid, N. Connecting political manifestos to political stringency.
Turmunkh, U., Savin, I., Callaghan, M., Sanford, M., et al. Systematic Review of Literature on Determinants of Climate Policy Support.
Datasets and models
CAPABLE Public Opinion Dashboard: An interactive dashboard that illustrates the results of two surveys regarding public opinion across a range of climate policies fielded in 14 EU countries in 2024 and 2025.
Policlim model of climate change salience in political text.
In the media
Yasseri, T. & Sanford, M. Social media is reducing climate change debates to your views on veganism. The Conversation. 1 October 2021.
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