Osamede Ogbomo is an MPhil student in Political Theory and a Barry Scholar. Her research interests include natural rights, human flourishing, and political leadership. She is broadly interested in how ideas about human nature and the good shape political institutions, public discourse, and responses to social and technological change.

Her current research examines Frederick Douglass’s conception of equality, particularly as it relates to natural rights, human dignity, and human agency.

I am a DPhil student in Politics, supervised by Professor Ezequiel González Ocantos. My studies are generously funded by Nuffield College and the Clarendon Scholarship. My research examines criminal governance, state capacity, and the functioning of illegal and informal economies, using a mixed-methods, qualitative approach.

I am a DPhil student in politics at Merton College, supervised by Professor Robin Harding and Professor Inken von Borzyskowski. My research explores why non-state armed groups attack educational infrastructure, students/pupils and educational personnel in intrastate conflict.

Dr Alice Politi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at DPIR, as part of the Mapping Global China initiative. Prior to this, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Geopolitics and a College Research Associate at St John’s College at the University of Cambridge, where her research project analysed China’s evolving role as a global actor under the leadership of Xi Jinping.