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MPhil and PhD Students
Jean-Baptiste Allegrini
Jean-Baptiste's dissertation considers how local governance impacts on inter-sectarian dialogue in Lebanese municipalities under the strain of the Syrian refugee influx.
Luca Bellodi
Luca's research focuses on bureaucratic influence over politicians and legislation. In particular, he investigates the influence of independent regulatory authorities on the liberalisation of the railway industry in Europe.
Email: luca.bellodi.17@ucl.ac.uk
Matilda Carter
Matilda is a PhD student in Political Theory. Matilda’s research pertains to the implications of dementia and an ageing society on contemporary political philosophy.
Email: matilda.carter.15@ucl.ac.uk
Sam Erkiletian
Sam’s research focuses on the changing identity of combatants in conflict and postwar environments
Email: uctqaer@ucl.ac.uk
Alexander Fitzpatrick
Alexander’s research focusses on the impact of lobbying regulations on interest group behaviour in the EU and its Member States.
Zara Goldstone
Zara's research includes examining the potential of migration as a reparative measure for past harms such as colonialism.
Email: zara.goldstone.20@ucl.ac.uk
Lotte Hargrave
Lotte’s research examines the importance of gender stereotypes for shaping the behaviour of political elites and voters in the UK.
Email: lotte.hargrave.16@ucl.ac.uk
Jennifer Hodge
Jennifer's doctoral study focuses on the conditions under which civilians in war-torn states challenge the use of violence by mobilizing and participating in anti-war campaigns.
Email: jennifer.hodge.18@ucl.ac.uk
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
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
Angelica Johansson
She is focusing her PhD on the politics of climate change loss and damage, more specifically how the science of climate change attribution can affect political power relations on an international level within the UNFCCC.
Email: uctqkl2@ucl.ac.uk
Kasim Khorasanee
Kasim’s research focuses on the phenomenon of open-mindedness from normative and empirical psychological perspectives. In particular, its relevance for elected representatives and our overall normative justifications for democracy.
Email: k.khorasanee@ucl.ac.uk
Sukmo Kim
Sukmo Kim is a first-year PhD candidate in Political Theory.
Email: sukmo.kim.20@ucl.ac.uk
Finn Klebe
Finn's research assesses the impact of radical flanks on nonviolent resistance movements by scrutinising their emergence and level of integration
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
Lang Liu
Lang's research includes on investigating attitudes towards China in different countries.
Email: lang.liu.18@ucl.ac.uk
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
Alice Moore
Alice’s doctoral research examines the ways in which the size and scope of government contracts influence accountability and public participation in the services they deliver.
Email: alice.moore.18@ucl.ac.uk
Ben Morgan
Ben is researching bureaucratic effectiveness and political failure, with a case study focus on migration and border control.
Email: b.morgan.12@ucl.ac.uk
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
Dušan Rebolj
Dušan’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
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
Christopher (Kit) Rickard
His doctoral study focuses on how external states affect civil wars, with a specific focus on how diverging forms of external support shape conflict dynamics.
Yilin Su
Yilin’s research focuses on how non-violent repression affect social movement participants and bystanders in illiberal regimes, with a specific focus on East/Southeast Asia.
Email: yilin.su@ucl.ac.uk
Patrick Taylor
Patrick’s PhD is about the political attitudes and behaviours of young people who have participated in the UK's National Citizen Service.
Email: patrick.taylor.16@ucl.ac.uk
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
Sigrid Weber
Sigrid’s research focuses on internal forced migration, local conflict dynamics, and territorial control in civil wars.
Email: s.weber.17@ucl.ac.uk