Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
nicolas.graham@ubc.ca
About
Nicolas Graham is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, and is the research coordinator for the Climate Disinformation and Obstructionism Research Cluster. His research focuses on the political economy of decarbonization and energy transition and seeks to understand the social forces and actors enabling and obstructing rapid and just climate action.
Selected Publications
- Graham, Nicolas, David Chen, Jean Philippe Sapinski, and William K. Carroll. 2026. “Canada’s Climate Lobby: Networks of Fossil Dominance and Social-Ecological Advocacy.” Climatic Change 179(5). doi:10.1007/s10584-026-04183-8.
- Graham, Nicolas. 2025. “The ‘Grow It All’ Consensus: Structure and Policy Discourse in Canada’s Energy Policy-Planning Network.” Environmental Sociology.
- Graham, Nicolas. 2025. “Green Dreams or Fossil Schemes? Mapping Canada’s Green Growth Policy-Planning Network.” Energy Research & Social Science 123:104038.
- Graham, Nicolas. 2024. “Think Tanks and Climate Obstruction: Atlas Affiliates in Canada.” Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne de Sociologie 61(2):110–30.
- Neubauer, Robert, Nicolas Graham and Helena Krobath. 2023. “Defending ‘Canadian Energy’: Connective Leadership and Extractive Populism on Canadian Facebook.” Environmental Communication 17(6): 634-652.
- Carroll, William K., Nicolas Graham, Michael Lang, Zoë Yunker, and Kevin McCartney. 2018. “The Corporate Elite and the Architecture of Climate Change Denial: A Network Analysis of Carbon Capital’s Reach into Civil Society.” Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne de Sociologie 55(3): 425–50.
Current Research Projects
- Co-Investigator (P.I.: Brian Evans), Who is Heard?: Business and Public Interest Lobbying in Canada (SSHRC Insight). Lead analysis of climate-related lobbying in Canada, 2009–present.
- Co-Investigator (P.I.: Dieter Plehwe and Ruth McKie), Think Tanks and the Politicization and Polarization of Climate Change: The Case of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation Network (Climate Social Science Network). Lead analysis of climate-related campaings by Atlas member think tanks in North America, 2000-2023.