Eli Harris-Trent

Eli is a second-year doctoral student at the University of Oxford (Nuffield College) studying armed group cultural production during civil war. His thesis combines interviews with Colombian ex-combatants, formal models, and archival material from around Latin America to explain how armed groups use cultural production as a vehicle for social transformation. In doing so, it engages with theory from a variety of disciplines, including political theory, aesthetics, sociology, and cognitive psychology.

Quo Vadis ODID? Climate change, growth, and the future of development

How, if at all, can we square sustainability with economic growth?

Do the current measures of ‘green growth’ suffice to abate the problems of environmental degradation and climate change, or do we need more radical ideas of ‘degrowth’ and fundamentally different economic systems?

Join ODID staff, researchers, students and alumni as we debate how our department should position itself.

Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies

This one and a half day conference, organized by Prof. Giovanni Capoccia and Prof. Isabela Mares (Yale) brings together scholars from Europe and the US to analyze in comparative and historical perspective the conditions of viability of the strategies that pro-democratic forces can adopt to counter the rise of illiberalism in liberal democracies.

View more information and the provisional program.

Emma Madden

Research

I specialise in computational methods in social science with a particular interest in modelling complex social systems through the lens of political violence and opinion dynamics. Some of my research topics include:

  • Replication of social experiments with synthetic data from LLMs

  • Organisational structure and group decision making in insurgency

  • Complex systems and modelling collective behaviour

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