Current postgraduate students
Check out our current postgraduate students and their research.
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Anne-Mette Holmgård Sundahl
Anne-Mette is researching modern personality cults across different political settings.
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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.
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Cristian Gomez
Cristian is researching the potential evolution of leading US digital multinationals as non-state actors in world politics.
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Dylan Stent
Dylan Stent is researching how nationalism in South Korea informs policy making toward North Korea.
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Eric Jeunot
Eric Jeunot is reviewing the role that domestic tribal norms played in the settlement of interstate territorial and boundary conflicts.
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Mengdi Zhang
Mengdi Zhang is researching the economic and security relationships between New Zealand and China.
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Sam Bigwood
Sam Bigwood is researching the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public opinion.
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Sean Ainsworth
Sean Ainsworth is uncovering how technological advances change our understanding of 'war'.
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Thiago Matheus
Thiago Matheus is conducting a comparative study that explores the distinct political effects of OLPR models implemented worldwide.