Katelyn Nutley

I am a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews, affiliated with the PeaceRep (MEND) project, under the supervision of Nicholas Barnes and Elisa D’Amico. In 2026–27, I am a funded Graduate Fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University, and the Teaching Fellow for Professor Robert Mnookin's) seminar How Wars End.

My research sits at the intersection of contentious politics and environmental politics. The first strand examines how states securitise dissent, showing that policing institutions selectively decline to treat protest as a security threat depending on protesters' partisanship. The second examines how climate policy is made, tracing how policy ideas take shape inside EU institutions. My work with Elisa D'Amico brings the two together, asking whether environmental protest moves legislatures across six Western democracies. Across all of this, I use computational and text-as-data methods, including NLP, transformer models, and LLM-based classification. More recently, I have turned to multimodal data, combining text with remote-sensing data from LiDAR and UAV drone surveys to assess whether environmental policies deliver on the ground.

You can find my CV here.

Feel free to get in touch via GitHub or send me an email if you’d like to talk research.

1. The Discussion of Gender and Citations in Submission Guidelines of 102 Political Science Journals (with A. Bekmuratovna R., S. Berhane, P. Dannhäuser, and I. Rohlfing). European Political Science, 2025. [Data]
2. Policy Paradigms in EU Public Bodies (with F. Green and M. Dumas). Technical Report, AdJUST Project Deliverable WP4.4, 2026.

1. The Impact of Environmental Protest on Legislative Response: A Comparative Analysis of Six Western Liberal Democracies (with E. D’Amico). Under review at Environmental Politics. Presented at EPSA, APSA, PECE, and IPPC.
2. AdJUST: Climate Policy Paradigms at the European Commission (with F. Green and M. Dumas). Submitted to Nature Climate Change. Presented at EPSS, APSA, and PECE.

1. Selective Non-Securitisation: Quantitative Evidence of Protestor Partisanship on Police Response from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. Presented at EPSA, EPSS, and APSA; invited talks at Yale and Harvard.
2. The Impact of Protestor Partisanship on Police Response: A Matched Wake Analysis of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Presented at EPSA and APSA.
3. Measuring the Impact of Cross-Border Policy on UK Carbon Sequestration: Evidence from Remote-Sensing Verification of Woodland Carbon Projects (with H. Martin).
4. Synthetic Replication Games using LLMs, via Talking to Machines (T2M) (with R. Duch, T. Batistoni, R. Low, M. Altman, et al.)).

• St Andrews Election Monitoring (STAEM) Project (with K. O’Meara). Nominated for The Herald’s Innovative Use of Technology Award, 2026. [Dashboard]
• Resident Resistance, data visualisation for a working paper by N. Barnes . [Dashboard]
• AdJUST EU Pre-Legislative Document Corpus. Zenodo, 2026 (forthcoming). [Data]

• How Wars End (Teaching Fellow for Robert Mnookin), Harvard University (2026–27)
• International Relations (IR1006, Graduate Teaching Assistant), University of St Andrews (2025)
• Explaining Public Service Outcomes (Lecturer), University of Cologne (2023–24)

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