Current postgraduate students
Check out our current postgraduate students and their research.

Anne-Mette Holmgård Sundahl
Anne-Mette is researching modern personality cults across different political settings.

Blake Steel
Blake Steel is researching the evolution of Australian and New Zealand aid in the Pacific Islands through the analysis of strategic aid documents.

Cristian Gomez
Cristian is researching the potential evolution of leading US digital multinationals as non-state actors in world politics.

Dylan Stent
Dylan Stent is researching how nationalism in South Korea informs policy making toward North Korea.

Eric Jeunot
Eric Jeunot is reviewing the role that domestic tribal norms played in the settlement of interstate territorial and boundary conflicts.

Mengdi Zhang
Mengdi Zhang is researching the economic and security relationships between New Zealand and China.

Sam Bigwood
Sam Bigwood is researching the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public opinion.

Sean Ainsworth
Sean Ainsworth is uncovering how technological advances change our understanding of 'war'.

Thiago Matheus
Thiago Matheus is conducting a comparative study that explores the distinct political effects of OLPR models implemented worldwide.