Sarah Pickard is a Professor at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, France. Her professorship ‘habilitation’ was entitled ‘An interdisciplinary and holistic approach to understanding young people in Britain and their political engagement: A dialogue on youth participation, public policy actions and political reactions.’ She did her first degree in Britain and her PhD in France – she has dual British-French nationality.

The focus of her research is young people's civic and political engagement regarding both electoral and non-electoral political participation, including protest actions. In 2019, she published her monograph Politics, Protest and Young People (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 501 pages). Sarah’s current research is on young people's climate and environmental activism in relation to Do-It-Ourselves (DIO) politics, a concept she devised to help understand youth engagement outside institutional politics. Since early 2019, she has interviewed hundreds of young climate and environment activists in France and Britain, including at COP26, leading to many publications in international journals and collective volumes. Sarah has also co-edited special issues and volumes on young people’s activism. For several years, Sarah has been a convenor of the Political Studies Association (PSA) Young People's Politics specialist group and until recently a vice president of the International Sociological Association (ISA) RC34 Sociology of Youth research committee. She is a consultant for the United Nations and provides expertise for a European Union-funded think tank on young people’s political participation, as well as other organisations. Full more information, see here: http://www.univ-paris3.fr/pickard-sarah-127807.kjsp