Sara Hueber is a DPhil student in Social Policy, supervised by Professor Jane Gingrich and Professor Kenneth Nelson. She joined the Department of Social Policy and Intervention in 2025. Her doctoral studies are funded by Nuffield College.
Sara’s research interests lie at the intersection of comparative social policy, political economy and climate politics. Specifically, she investigates the socio-economic drivers of climate policy opposition in Western and Eastern Europe, exploring how various policy instruments can mitigate resistance to climate policy measures. Methodologically, she specialises in quantitative methods and causal inference.
Sara holds a master’s degree in Sociology from Goethe University Frankfurt, a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from Humboldt University of Berlin, and also studied law alongside her graduate programme. In 2024, she spent a semester at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Sara has several years of work experience in research projects at Humboldt University of Berlin and Goethe University Frankfurt. Additionally, she gained professional experience through internships at legal and governmental institutions as well as in the NGO sector.
