Secular imaginaries within the African National Congress in South Africa
Maria Puolakkainen
I am a DPhil student in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations and a member of Nuffield College. My research is motivated by the persistence of extreme economic inequality and I am working on questions on the politics of industrial policies, structural upgrading, and informal labour, with a regional focus on Latin America.
Human security versus national security: have we lost our capacity for collective action?
Iuliana Nyerges
Iuliana (Julie) Nyerges is a second year MPhil student in European Politics at Balliol College. Her research focuses on political behaviour, far-right politics, populism and democratic (de)consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Her Masters thesis analyses voter demand for democratic reconstruction in countries undergoing backsliding, with a focus on Hungary. More broadly, Julie is interested in quantitative and experimental methods, as well as the political consequences of globalisation in Post-Communist EU Member States.
Joseph Ward
I am a DPhil in Political Theory at Corpus Christi College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.
My work sits at the crossroads of intellectual history, black critical theory and methodology in political thought. My DPhil project focuses on the methods used by black scholars after the black studies movement. In particular, I am interested in the twin concepts of 'interdisciplinarity' and 'disciplinarity' and how they have been influential in both normative philosophy and Caribbean history.
Elina M Dilger
I am a broadly educated social scientist who’s research focuses on future-oriented monetary and fiscal policy, with a particular emphasis on climate. As a trained economist and political scientist, I possess a wide skill set ranging from classical quantitative to qualitative and machine learning methods.I joined Oxford as an MPhil student of European Politics and Society in 2023. Before this, I studied Philosophy, Economics and Protestant Theology at the Universities of Bayreuth and Heidelberg, Germany, and the University of Granada, Spain.
Christian Uta
M. Christian Uta is an MPhil in International Relations student at the University of Oxford and a member of Regent's Park College.