We’re delighted to welcome six new DPhil in Public Policy students today. With a variety of backgrounds, experience and research interests, they will be with us for the next three years and they will make a great addition to our previous DPhil students, who are now in their second and third year.
The DPhil (as a PhD is known in Oxford) started at the School in 2014, so while these students are just about to embark on their programme, the first batch of students are entering the final year of their degree.
The DPhil aims at developing in-depth research on public policy challenges and providing solid training to understand those challenges and come up with analysis and solutions.
Meet the new DPhil students:
Noam Angrist is the founder of Young 1ove – a not-for-profit organisation based in Botswana which connects youth to life saving information such as HIV risk. He also worked on research for the World Bank and the White House.
Ji Baek worked as a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International affairs, and her research focus is US/East Asia policy and the impact of information access in liberalisation of closed societies.
Helen Baxendale has a background in social policy and education, and her current research investigates school education reform in a comparative international context.
Claire Cullen has just completed her Masters studies at Georgetown University, and is deeply interested in international development and economics.
Zahra Mansoor, who was a consultant for the World Bank on the topic of governance, is interested in political economy and governance.
Yeajin Yoon was previously working at the School to promote government reform in the focus area of ASEAN+3 (China, Japan and Republic of Korea).
This is also a great opportunity to introduce our new DPhil Coordinator, Professor Pepper Culpepper. As well as working to ensure that the DPhil programme is effective and successful, he has also the role of Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the School.
With an extensive background in political economy and strategies of policymaking, comparative institutions and public policy, Professor Culpepper has joined us from the European University Institute (Italy) and prior to that he was at the Harvard Kennedy School where he won the Dean’s teaching award four times. His current research, broadly speaking, focuses on the interaction between capitalism and democracy.
Read our DPhil students’ full profiles.
Applications for next year’s DPhil are now open. Read more about the DPhil at the Blavatnik School of Government.
