MPhil and PhD Students
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Alan Buckle
Alan is interested in the moral and political responsibilities of business executives concerning social justice.
Email: alan.buckle.21@ucl.ac.uk
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William Bacon
William's research focuses on how states can reduce inter-ethnic electoral violence.
Email: william.bacon.22@ucl.ac.uk
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Andrea Caflisch
Andrea's research focuses on the role of inclusivity in post-conflict transitions, the politics of voluntary and forced migration, and the impact of economic deprivation and violence on political behaviour.
Email: andrea.caflisch.16@ucl.ac.uk
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Marco Cappelluti
Marco Cappelluti's research interests are at the intersection of political economy, political behaviour and comparative politics, with a focus on economic insecurity, fiscal policies and political trust.
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Max Emmett
Max's research is on how civil servants understand their policy making role within democratic states.
Email: max.emmett.17@ucl.ac.uk
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Sam Erkiletian
Sam’s research focuses on the changing identity of combatants in conflict and postwar environments
Email: uctqaer@ucl.ac.uk
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Alexander Fitzpatrick
Alexander’s research focusses on the impact of lobbying regulations on interest group behaviour in the EU and its Member States.
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Ioanna Gkoutna
Ioanna’s research is on the field of political behaviour. Her thesis explores the process of social capital formation and its interplay with economic insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa. She also works on topics of political socialisation in Europe.
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David Graham
David's examines how deliberative mini-publics (DMPs), such as citizens’ assemblies, influence attitudes toward democracy.
Email: david.graham.21@ucl.ac.uk
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Josh Goddard
Josh's research focuses on the relationships between housing and voting behaviour.
Email: joshua.goddard.22@ucl.ac.uk
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Zara Goldstone
Zara's research includes examining the potential of migration as a reparative measure for past harms such as colonialism.
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Michael Jacobs
Michael's research focuses on protests and social movements, public discourse, agenda-setting, framing, and quantitative text analysis.
Email: michael.jacobs.21@ucl.ac.uk
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Tomás Jaeger Ljubetic
Tomás's research focuses on the role of ethics in policy analysis.
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Pasan Jayasinghe
Pasan study focuses on the impact Sri Lanka's resettlement policies following the end of its civil war have had on its electoral scheme.
Email: pasan.jayasinghe.20@ucl.ac.uk
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Kaiser Kang
Kaiser's research interests are in the fields of International Political Economy, International Economic Law and Public International Law.
Email: ting.kang.22@ucl.ac.uk
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Sukmo Kim
Sukmo’s PhD in Political Theory focuses on the democratic legitimacy of sovereign referendums within the republican framework of constitutional democracy.
Email: sukmo.kim.20@ucl.ac.uk
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Finn Klebe
Finn’s research assesses the turn to violence and varying relations between nonviolent and violent groups within contentious movements.
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Markus Kollberg
Markus‘ research investigates populist rhetoric, its effects on politicians and voters, as well as possibilities to reduce its appeal.
Email: markus.kollberg.18@ucl.ac.uk
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Lang Liu
Lang's research includes on investigating attitudes towards China in different countries.
Email: lang.liu.18@ucl.ac.uk
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Hannah McHugh
Hannah's PhD in Political Theory focusses on the connection between the republican conception of social justice and relational egalitarianism, structural injustices and status inequalities.
Email: Hannah.mchugh.16@ucl.ac.uk
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Aidan Miao
Aidan's research focuses on the comparative political economy of environmental policy.
Email: aidan.miao.19@ucl.ac.uk
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Katy Norris
Katy's research focuses on the politics of education, and particularly the role of higher education institutions in fomenting and repressing political dissent.
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Jay O'Connor
Jay’s research, under the supervision of Prof David Coen and Dr Colin Provost, focuses on democratic accountability and the governance of health and social care in England.
Email: j.o'connor.12@ucl.ac.uk
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Dušan Rebolj
DuÅ¡an’s research, currently in its early stages, focuses on the normative implications of power for neorepublican and epistemic democratic theory.
Email: dusan.rebolj.19@ucl.ac.uk
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Antonio Reyes-Gonzalez
Antonio’s research looks at the underlying social processes that drive cross-sector collaboration between public and non-public actors in the board of directors of global multi-stakeholder partnerships.
Email: antonio.reyes.16@ucl.ac.uk
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Yilin Su
Yilin’s research focuses on how state strategies of online disinformation affect social movement participants and public opinion, with a specific focus on Southeast Asia.
Email: yilin.su@ucl.ac.uk
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Pablo Torres
Pablo's research seeks to study how governments deal with the trade-off between political control and autonomy in the context of state-owned enterprises.
Email: p.torres.20@ucl.ac.uk
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Haneen Zeglam
Haneen's research focuses on political cleavages, religious and class-based political mobilisation and the evolution of secularism in primarily post-colonial contexts.
Email: haneen.zeglam.23@ucl.ac.uk