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.

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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'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'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.

Email: marco.cappelluti.22@ucl.ac.uk

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.

Email: alexander.fitzpatrick.20@ucl.ac.uk

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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

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

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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

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

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

Aidan Miao

Aidan's research focuses on the comparative political economy of environmental policy.

Email: aidan.miao.19@ucl.ac.uk

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.

Email: kathryn.norris.23@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

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

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