I am an MPhil International Relations candidate (2022–2024) and incoming DPhil (2024-) at DPIR and St Antony’s College. Prior to joining DPIR, I completed a BA in History at Hertford College, Oxford. I have previously interned at the Central Bank of Luxembourg, London-based venture capital fund Dawn Capital, international tech and media leader Minute Media, and Luxembourg-based private equity firm Cube Infrastructure Managers. I am broadly interested in strategy, foreign policy, and the interaction between technology, investment, and geopolitics.

I am an MPhil student in Political Theory at Brasenose College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. 

Currently, I am thinking and writing about utopia and the history of Yiddish political thought. In my thesis, I develop and use what I call a ‘function-based’ approach to analysing utopian texts to provide the first extended study of Kalman Zingman’s Yiddish-language utopian novel, In Der Tsukunft-Shtot Edenia (1918) and to elaborate central ideas in Yiddish political thought. The aims of my thesis are to:

Diane Robert is reading for an MPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, and Transitional justice. Before Oxford, she graduated from the University of McGill in Political Science and History (Dean's Honour List) and was a recipient of the James McGill Scholarship.

As an MPhil student on the MPhil Politics: European Politics and Society programme at the DPIR, I am currently researching candidate selection strategy in the UK. Candidate selections is an understudied area of political science, yet it is key to understanding how legislatures represent the broader population and how political parties respond to demands from the electorate. Using a novel dataset and predominantly quantitative analysis, I am investigating the competing internal incentives and electoral strategies that determine candidate selection behaviour in Britain's political parties.