Mitya Pearson

Assistant Professor

E-mail: mitya.pearson@warwick.ac.uk

Room: D1.21

Mitya is an Assistant Professor in the Politics of Climate Change.

Mitya completed his PhD at the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London (KCL). Mitya has lectured on British politics at POLIS, the University of Cambridge, and worked for several years as a researcher in energy and climate change policy at a Westminster think tank. Mitya was previously a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at KCL and then the University of Warwick, conducting a project examining UK government decision-making on climate change since 2008.

Mitya’s research focuses on various aspects of environmental politics in Britain and Europe. You can find out more about research on environmental politics within PAIS here.

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Key Publications

Mitya Pearson, 'Explaining climate change policy inertia: Policymaker perspectives on building energy efficiency in the United Kingdom', Energy Research & Social Science, Vol 127, September 2025, 104243

Mitya Pearson & David Jeffery, What Do British Politicians Think? (2025)

Mitya Pearson & Alan Wager, 'Not so different: Comparing British MPs' and voters' attitudes to climate change', Parliamentary Affairs, Vol 78, No 1, 2025, pp.53–76

Mitya Pearson, 'Back to the Stone Age: Europe's Mainstream Right and Climate Change', Political Quarterly, Vol 95 No 1, 2024, pp.123-130

Neil Carter & Mitya Pearson, 'From Green Crap to Net Zero: Conservative Climate Policy 2015-2022', British Politics, Vol 19, 2024, pp.154-174

Mitya Pearson, 'Sticklebacks and Gandalf's Garden: an oral history of 1970s British environmental activism', Oral History, Autumn, Vol 50 No 2, 2022, pp.74-84

Full list of publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kt9hLNAAAAAJ&hl=en.

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Teaching

Mitya is the module director for Politics in the UK (PO206) and teaches on the Politics of Climate Change MA.

Mitya is available for PhD supervision in the following areas: environmental politics; climate change policy and politics; British politics; European politics; party politics.

Mitya is currently supervising Balint Schlett's PhD research.

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