Current postgraduate students

Check out our current postgraduate students and their research.

Cristian Gomez

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

Joshua Huffman

Joshua Huffman's prior research was in comparative and American politics.
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Lisen He

Lisen is interested in the AI intervention in power ecosystems in digital society, focusing on power asymmetry and online hierarchy.
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Nikitha Aithal

Nikitha’s PhD research focuses on the impact of citizenship revocation on the status of citizenship as membership, and vice versa, in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

Sam Bigwood

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

Satria's doctoral studies investigate the development of trust in the ASEAN geostrategic imagination in the Indo-Pacific.
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Sean Ainsworth

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

Stephen Beban

Stephen's research is exploring how countries balance proportionality and representativeness (and secondarily government stability) in their electoral system designs, and whether could they do it better.

Thiago Matheus

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

Toan's research focuses on the politico-economic of East and Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on institutional reform.

Will Dreyer

Will Dreyer is focussing on the impact of Parliamentary select committees on legislation in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Nick Noloboff

Nick Noloboff's research looks at the theme of political education in 18th and 19th century political theory as a frame for understanding Max Weber’s controversial “plebiscitary leader democracy".