Journal articles
Climate Policy Feasibility across Europe Relies on the Conditional Middle. (Smith, E. K., Mlakar, Z., Levis, A., Sanford, M., Stapper, L., Bouman, T., Emmerling, J., Perlaviciute, G., Tavoni, M., Berger, L., van den Bergh, J., Bernauer, T., Casamassima, A., Epper, T., Eddai, N., Savin, I., Ščasný, M., Turmunkh, U., Zvěřinová, I., and Pianta, S.) Forthcoming, Nature Climate Change.
Policlim: A Dataset of Climate Change Discourse in the Political Manifestos of 45 Countries from 1990-2022. (Sanford, M., Pianta, S., Schmid, N., & Musto, G.) 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
Who Believes What on EU 2030 Climate Commitments? (Berger, L., Richard, T., Emmerling, J., Epper, T., Eddai, N., Sanford, M., Pianta, S., Turmunkh, U., and Bosetti, V.) R&R Environmental Research Letters.
Working papers
Public acceptance of climate mitigation versus adaptation policies. Sanford, M., Mlakar, Ž. Smith, E. K., Bouman, T., Perlaviciute, G., Pianta, S., Berger, L., van den Bergh, J., Bernauer, T,. Casamassima, A., Emmerling, J., Epper, T., Levis, A., Montoya-Villalobos, M. J., Savin, I., Ščasný, M., Stapper, L., Tavoni, M., Turmunkh, U., and Zvěřinová, I.
Do super-emitters (de)motivate climate action? Sanford, M., Picard, J., Tallent, T.
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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