Lorin is an MPhil student at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and a member of Mansfield College, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on EU Derogation law, emergency/crisis management and human rights with special regard to the UK-Northern Ireland conflict (1968-1998) and Kurdish-Turkish conflict (1978-present).

Colm Trant is a DPhil student in International Relations researching the relationship between power-sharing and conflict resolution. His doctoral project investigates whether divided societies can be reconciled through institutional designs that guarantee groups’ access to power. The project follows a mixed-methods research design, nesting qualitative case-study analysis within preliminary statistical analysis.