Sophia Mughal is a MPhil candidate in International Relations at Balliol College. Mughal's research primarily focuses on the impact of collective memory on foreign policy, especially in the postcolonial context. Prior to her studies at Oxford, Mughal served as a Fellow in the Office of the President at her alma mater, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, from where she graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Political Science & Religious Studies.

I am an MPhil student in Comparative Government at the University of Oxford. My work considers how western governments use economic policy to shape relationships with citizens, particularly multicultural and ethnically diverse people. My research crosses normative political theory, critical policy analysis and comparative political economy.

Max Bessler is an MPhil candidate in International Relations at St. Antony's College. His research covers how technology companies and their products align with, resist, or reshape the behaviour of governments. Before Oxford, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a strategy consultant, an economic analyst at the CIA, and intern at the Economics Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Away from his research, he loves triathlon, writing, and the occasional row.

Nurana Mammadova is a DPhil student in International Relations at the University of Oxford, specialising in great-power competition, middle-power agency, and foreign policy analysis, with a regional focus on the wider post-Soviet space. Through comparative case studies and elite interviews, her doctoral research examines the factors that shape the foreign policies of middle powers situated at the crossroads of great-power competition (the US, China, Russia, and the EU).