Justin Daniels is a DPhil (PhD) student in International Relations at Somerville College and DPIR, where his research focuses on political communication and electoral campaigns in democracies as well as indoctrination and protest in authoritarian regimes.

Emma Smith is reading for the MPhil in International Relations. Her research broadly centers on the prevention of conflict and mass atrocities, the use of children in armed conflict, peacebuilding, and the climate-security nexus. She is particularly interested in the role of climate change — from climate shocks to climate adaptation interventions — in mitigating and fueling interstate violence.

I am a DPhil student in International Relations at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. My research interests centre around China’s environmental foreign policy. My combined DPhil–MPhil project examines how China manages a “green” image in international environmental regimes and when investing in the Global South, with a regional focus on South America. My research is funded by the ESRC Grand Union DTP.