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MPhil and PhD Students
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
Marco Cappelluti
Marco Cappelluti is a first-year PhD candidate.
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
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.
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.
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
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
Tomás Jaeger Ljubetic
Tomás's research focuses on the role of ethics in policy analysis.
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
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 turn to violence and varying relations between nonviolent and violent groups within contentious movements.
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
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
Yara Sleiman
Yara's research interests include identity politics, political psychology, quantitative survey methods and causal inference.
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
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