About Me
I am a political scientist whose research focusses on the politics of climate change, particularly public attitudes towards climate change. I received my PhD from Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) in 2021, and was awarded a MBIE Science Whitinga Postdoctoral Fellowship, which I successfully completed in October 2023. I am interested in comparative politics more broadly, including the many different ways democracy functions in different countries. I am comfortable using both quantitative and qualitative methods, and have many years programming experience.
You can read more about my Postdoc project on the Royal Society Te Apārangi website.
Recent Publications
Coffé, H., Crawley, S., & Givens, J. (2025). Growing polarisation: Ideology and attitudes towards climate change. West European Politics, 0(0), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2024.2435727
Crawley, S., & Chapman, R. (2025). Resolution and resistance: What shaped New Zealand’s climate change policies under the sixth Labour government? Political Science, 0(0), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00323187.2024.2446333
Barker, F., & Crawley, S. (2024). Selecting Diversity: Ethnicity, Party Strategies and Candidate Selection in New Zealand Elections, 1996–2020. Political Studies, 00323217241300028. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217241300028
Crawley, S. (2024). In the Shadow of Covid-19? Climate change and the 2020 election. In J. Curtin, L. Greaves, & J. Vowles (Eds.), A Team of Five Million?: The 2020 ‘Covid-19’ New Zealand General Election (1st ed., pp. 247–273). ANU Press. https://doi.org/10.22459/TFM.2024.09
Crawley, S. (2024). Conservative worldviews and the climate publics of New Zealand and Australia. International Journal Of Public Opinion Research, 36(2), edae027. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edae027