Assistant Professor

mitya.pearson@warwick.ac.uk

Room: D1.21

Feedback and Advice hours:

-Monday, 11.00-12.00 (In-Person, D1.21)

-Friday, 10.30-11.30 (Online*, Teams)

Please book a slot in advance, using the above form.

*If you book onto a time slot during the online hour, I will call you on Teams at that time.

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 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.

Publications

Mitya Pearson & Alan Wager, 'Not so different: Comparing British MPs' and voters' attitudes to climate change', Parliamentary Affairs, 2024

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 & Louise Thompson, '"Enter parliament but never become part of it": How have the Greens in the United Kingdom approached opposition?', The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol 25 No 2, 2023, pp.219-236

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

Louise Thompson & Mitya Pearson, 'Exploring party change: the professionalisation of the UK's three Green parties crossing the representation threshold', Environmental Politics, Vol 30 No 6, 2021, pp.938-957

Mitya Pearson, 'Labour and the environment: An historical perspective', Renewal, Vol 29 No 3, 2021, pp.32-38

Neil Carter & Mitya Pearson, 'A climate election? The environment and the Greens in the 2019 UK general election', Environmental Politics, Vol 29 No 4, 2020, pp.746-751

Mitya Pearson & Wolfgang Rüdig, 'The Greens in the 2019 European elections', Environmental Politics, Vol 29 No 2, 2020, pp.336-343

Mitya Pearson, 'Tentative Feelers: The Liberal Party's Response to the Emergence of the Ecology Party', The Journal of Liberal History, No 104, Autumn, 2019, pp.34-38

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.

I am currently supervising Balint Schlett's PhD research.