William Hopkinson

William Hopkinson is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His substantive research interests include climate change politics, comparative politics, and set-theoretic methods. As a long-term climate advocate, his PhD research focuses on domestic political processes and the enabling and constraining conditions that shape climate ambition and its change over time. His research aims to help scholars, policymakers, and activists better understand how to accelerate more ambitious climate action to meet international climate goals. His work centres on the domestic politics between fossil fuel and green actors over climate policy within OECD member countries. In addition to his research, William also works as a teaching associate and research assistant across environmental and international politics at the University of Melbourne. William has a long-standing interest in multi-disciplinary climate approaches and is a member of a collaborative climate research project between the University of Manchester, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Toronto. He holds a Master of Geography from the University of Melbourne and a Master of International Politics from KU Leuven.