Viktoria Maria Sochor is reading for an MPhil in Politics (European Politics and Society) at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. She studied Political Science and Law (BA) at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. During her studies, she worked as a Tutor for International Relation Theories at Georg-August Universität at the Chair of International Relations (Professor Dr Anja Jetschke) as well as Student Research Assistant at the Göttinger Institute for Research on Democracy (Professor Dr Simon T. Franzmann).

Inken von Borzyskowski is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Fellow at St Catherine’s College. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014. Before joining Oxford, she spent four years at University College London, four years at Florida State University, a post-doc year at Free University Berlin, and an exchange year at Duke University.

Maxim is pursuing a DPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford and works as an Associate Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. His primary research interests are in geopolitics and international political economy. For his DPhil, he is investigating the granular mechanisms of wartime trade.

Eli is a DPhil candidate in international relations at Nuffield College, Oxford. His research explores the relationship between art and peace in post-conflict societies. His MPhil thesis, supervised by Dr Samuel Ritholtz, uses ethnographic methods to examine the everyday peacebuilding practices of ex-combatant artists in Colombia. His project incorporates ideas from many disciplines, including art theory, literary criticism, and anthropology.

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Quantitative Political Science. My research focuses on education politics and policy, as well as the drivers of intergroup discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, and immigrant status. Methodologically, I utilise a range of causal inference techniques to evaluate how major policy reforms influence various individual-level political outcomes, including political participation and democratic attitudes. A majority of my empirical work centres on Malaysia and Singapore.