POLITICS & IR
Ben Jasper, Debate Chamber Politics Tutor:
What with the current state of British politics you might worry that politics is inextricably linked with corruption, that no amount of attention or academic study will change it. For those of you who resist that impulse, who yearn to find out how such a system can emerge, or who want to learn how to change it for the better, politics is for you….Read more advice for young politics and international relations students.
Debate Chamber Politics and IR Events 2010
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Feedback from previous politics and IR events
“Really brilliant! Great fun, entertaining, inclusive, and well taught.”
“I really enjoyed the course – especially the tutorials which I found very interesting and informative.”
“Very good. I learned a lot. I especially enjoyed the mock parliament.”
“Very informative and entertaining. One did not have to have substantial knowledge of topics to engage in debate. Good practice for university life.”
“Awesome. Insanely entertaining and informative. Thank you very much for a great time.”
“Excellent. The tutors were clearly very well-informed and made every effort to present complex info and theories in a way that the students could understand.”
Politics and International Relations Tutors
Silvia Ferabolli
Silvia is a Doctoral student in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Specializing in Arab politics and Third World studies, Silvia has papers published in leading Latin American journals and several articles published in Le Monde Diplomatique (Brazilian edition). She is the author of a newly launched book on Arab regionalism, International Relations of the Arab World. She was a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Politics at SOAS for a year, where she conducted tutorials related to her most experienced area of teaching: theories of international relations.
Francesca Giovannini
Francesca is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Politics and International Relations at Oxford, where she is researching how states think collectively and produce shared knowledge and expertise. She has previously studied at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Bologna, at the School of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Development in Rome and at the University of California Berkeley, where she was awarded a lecturer and awarded the 2006 Graduate Student Instructor Outstanding Teaching Award. She is also a recipient of the Rotary World Peace Fellowship. Francesca has extensive experience working for Italian development NGOs and the United Nations in locations such as Gaza and Lebanon, where she has worked in the fields such as aid coordination, crisis prevention and conflict prevention work with young people.
Claudia Stoicescu
Claudia is an MSc student at St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford working on the monitoring and evaluation of successful pulic health and particularly HIV prevention and interventions. She holds a first class honours degree in Political Science and Creative Writing from York University (Canada). Claudia’s academic interests centre around the theory behind and design and policy interventions, particularly in sexual health and infectious diseases, as well as human-rights based and participatory approaches to public health and international development. Her enthusiasms include freelance journalism, writing fiction, South East Asia and the Pacific and documentary photography.
Jonathan Leader Maynard
Jonathan graduated from King’s College London in 2008 with the top first in War Studies and a first in History, and is now studying his two year MPhil in Political Theory at University College, Oxford. A European Debating Champion and Best Speaker, and World Debating Championship Grand Finalist, he is also Chair of the English National Universities Debating Council. His interests include the place of moral theory in political ideologies, the history of modern political thought, and ethics in international relations.