I am completing my DPhil (PhD) dissertation in the Department of Politics and International Relations and St Hilda’s College at the University of Oxford. Before starting the DPhil in October 2019, I earned an MA (1st) in Political Science and a BA (2:1) in Government, both from the Universidad de Chile. Moreover, I served as a lecturer at the Universidad de Santiago and Universidad de Chile and as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Broderick McDonald is an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and a DPhil Candidate in the Department of Politics & International Relations at the University of Oxford where he researches conflict, extremism, and political violence. Broderick previously served as a Policy Advisor to the Government of Canada and a researcher with the Non-Partisan Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention. Outside of this, he is a Postgraduate Researcher at the Rothermere American Institute and a Rising Leaders Fellow with the Aspen Institute.

I am a doctoral student at Merton College. I am researching the kind of people (in terms of sociodemographic characteristics, with a particular focus on education, former occupation, and class) who act as politicians in modern Britain, testing whether they are the kind of people whom Britons want to act as their representatives (at the experimental and electoral levels), and exploring what British politicians publicise - and don't publicise - about themselves with regard to the sociodemographic characteristics listed above.

I am currently working on two related research projects:

I am a DPhil (PhD) student in Politics at the DPIR and a current predoctoral visiting fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Cecilia started her DPhil in International Relations at Oxford in 2019. Her research interest lies in the areas of global governance, humanitarian action and global health. For her DPhil project, Cecilia investigates the causes of competition and cooperation failures among UN agencies operating in humanitarian emergencies.