Felicia Robertson

About Me

Felicia Robertson is a Posdoctoral Fellow in Political Science since September 2023. She is the PI for the project POLICYSHIFT: AI-Driven Insights into Political Belief Change and Sustainable Energy Policy, funded by SUN Natural Resources for Sustainability Transitions financed by SUN (LTU-1159-2025).

She is also workking on the research project Moving from explanations to predictions: a study combining policy theory with AI technology to advance our knowledge about policy dynamics and policy change financed by SUN at LTU.

She defended her thesis at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg in September 2023 with the dissertation Political Trust – More Personal Than We Thought? Explaining How and When Personality Traits Affect Political Trust.

Her research interest includes political behavior and political psychology regarding environmental politics, antibiotics & political trust. She applies text-as-data methods, time-series analysis, and survey experiments.

Her teaching include environmental politics, comparative politics, international relations, research methods, and supervision of Bacherlor's and Master's theses.