Astrid is currently reading for the DPhil International Relations. Her research focuses on the development of "official" (state led) memory regimes in the aftermath of traumatic national events, with a particular interest in the politics of forgetting and the role of official memory in state building. Her PhD project focuses on the origins, development, and contestation of memory regimes in east Africa, aiming to conduct a comparative analysis of the development of post-colonial memory regimes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.