Faisal researches the Political Economy of Islam in Nigeria. He also serves as a Senior Strategy Analyst at Harvard University.

Before starting his doctorate, Faisal was a senior administrator at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, CA, and a Senior Strategy Consultant with Monitor Deloitte. He earned his BA from Yale and MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS.

I am a PhD student at DPIR at the University of Oxford.

Research

My fields of research are:

• Identity Politics, Comparative Political Economy, Political Behaviour 
• Surveys and Experiments

My research focuses on the fields of identity politics, comparative political economy, and political behaviour, with a geographical focus on Western European countries. 

I am interested in studying:

Daniel Lane is a first year MPhil student reading European Politics and Society at St Cross College. His research interests include coalition politics, the European Union, party politics and populism in Southern Europe.

Before his MPhil, Daniel graduated with honours in Political Science and Public Administration at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He also completed two years of a Law degree at the same university. His bachelor’s thesis was on the normative power of the European Union in the area of data protection.

Ben studies the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to trigger a world war and how to prevent that from happening.

He is a DPhil Affiliate at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, a research group examining the risks of AI and how those risks can be addressed through governance.

Paddy Cross is reading for a Master of Philosophy in Politics (Comparative Government) at Pembroke College. He is a Governor Philip scholar. Under the supervision of Professor Desmond King, Paddy’s research examines civil-military relations in the United States. In the tradition of American Political Development, Paddy’s work traces how the military conceives of its role in domestic political crises.

I am currently studying the MSc in Politics Research at Christ Church, researching voter volatility in recent UK general elections. In particular, I am interested in exploring the relationship between volatility and the closeness of constituency races. Prior to this year, I also obtained my Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Christ Church.

I am a first-year MPhil International Relations student at St Edmund Hall. I am broadly interested in Israeli politics, international law, and US foreign policy in the Middle East. I graduated with a BA in History and International Relations from Trinity College, University of Toronto, in 2023.

I am researching regime transitions and sub-state conflict in the post-colonial world as part of my DPhil at DPIR, my principal geographic focus being Africa. My project interrogates the conditions under which democratisation may cause or exacerbate conflict through a set of in-depth case studies of Nigeria’s contemporary, overlapping insurgencies. My research utilises qualitative methods and builds on several years of prior fieldwork in Nigeria as a Fulbright researcher at the University of Lagos, a fellow with the Centre for Democracy and Development, and an independent consultant.