Faye Shen Li Thijssen
I am a first-year MPhil student in Politics (Comparative Government) at Pembroke College, Oxford working under the supervision of Professor Robin Harding. My current research aims to better understand and examine potential relationships between indirect influences of corporate marketing on public opinion and broader systems of polarization, particularly within the context of environmentalism in advanced democracies.
Geoeconomic implications of the Japan-EU Relations – trade, digitalization and sustainability
Deviant women: citizenship, political participation, and incarceration of the secular left in post-revolutionary Iran (1979-1990)
The Ethics of Countering Disinformation: Navigating Normative Ideals in the Age of Fake News
WRRS AND MENA POLITICS JOINT EVENT - Women and electoral politics in Iran and Turkey: Undemocratic structures and feminist resistance
Kabuki music and compositions
Lily Green
Lily is a DPhil student in Politics at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on environmental politics in non-democracies. Prior to this, she obtained an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies at St Antony's College, University of Oxford and wrote her Masters thesis on environmental crises and elite blame avoidance. She spent a year living in Moscow, studying at Moscow State University.
Juliet Paiva
I am a second-year MPhil candidate in Political Theory, studying the intersection of democratic theory and political epistemology. My research broadly explores the role of truth in democracy. My MPhil dissertation examines cases of deep disagreement in the age of so-called “post-truth” politics—instances where different groups within democracies cannot agree on facts. Drawing on epistemic theories of deliberative democracy, social epistemology, and group cognition, I argue that the popular post-truth explanations misdiagnose the problem of deep disagreement in democracy.
Konstantin Niewerth
Konstantin Niewerth is reading for an MPhil in European Politics and Societies in St Antony's College. His main research interest is in immigrant political participation: his thesis covers the impact of country of origin economic conditions on political behaviour in migrants' host countries.
Before joining Oxford for his MPhil, Konstantin studied Classics at Durham University, with a focus on ancient philosophy and politics. Outside of Academia, Konstantin worked as a Campaign Organiser for the Green Party of England and Wales in the lead-up to the May 2023 local elections.