I am a DPhil student in Politics specialising in contemporary political theory. My thesis explores citizens' claims to leisure. Arguing against the dominant understanding of leisure as free time - which informs policies such as the four-day week - I call for a claim to an Aristotelian/Marxian conception of leisure which demands a wide bundle of leisure goods including, but not limited to, free time. In the process, I make contributions to debates in political theory pertaining to the capabilities approach, political liberalism and public goods.

Jeffrey Love is a first year reading the MPhil in International Relations at St. Antony’s College. His research focuses on economic sanctions, bureaucratic politics, and strategic studies. He is supervised by Dr Ranjit Lall. 

Prior to studying at Oxford, Jeffrey received a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics where he wrote his undergraduate dissertation on the economic methods leaders use to counteract sanctions. Jeffrey served as the President of the US Society at LSE, and course representative in the International Relations Department. 

I am a second-year MPhil student in Politics (Comparative Government) researching the determinants and consequences of socialisation of party identity within the family. More broadly, I am interested in studying political behaviour, attitude and opinion formation, and political trust using causal inference and machine learning methods.