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.

Introduction

I am a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Political Science. I am also a Doctoral Candidate (DPhil) at the Department of Politics and International Relations​, University of Oxford, fully funded by a DPIR Scholarship. I read Law at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London.

My research interests lie in understanding how individuals think about economic inequality and its sources. I use experimental methods to uncover individuals’ attitudes towards policies that aim at reducing economic inequality such as including immigrants into the welfare state, increasing taxes on the super-rich or decreasing the salary gap between highly and lowly paid occupations. Apart from looking at public support for certain policies, I also explore how individuals justify market inequality in the first place.