Summer Isaacson

Doctoral Researcher

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Summer Isaacson is a Doctoral Researcher at the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz.

Summer studied at Uppsala University in Sweden, earning a Bachelor's in Peace and Development Studies and a Master's degree in Political Science. During 2022, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Gothenburg's Centre for Collective Action Research, conducting a MASEM on Public acceptance of climate policies. Before this, she was a research assistant at the democracy research institute International IDEA in Stockholm.

Research interests:

  • environmental politics
  • political psychology/behaviour
  • rights of marginalized groups

Summer Isaacsons dissertation will be on these topics, investigating how climate change relates to inequalities and behaviour in developing countries.