Mental Health and the Moral Component of Warfighting

Surgeon Commander Charlotte Evans MBChB MSc MRCPsych RN is the Royal Navy Hudson Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. She recently served as the Consultant Advisor in Psychiatry to the Head of Royal Navy Healthcare, where she provided subject matter expertise in her clinical role as a consultant psychiatrist, as well as non-clinical support and advice on mental health and illness on strategic, operational and tactical levels.

Climate, Defence, and Security: Weird Bedfellows?

Lieutenant General Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE was appointed as Non-Executive Director for Climate Change and Sustainability at the Ministry of Defence in March 2021. Before this appointment, Lt Gen Nugee wrote the review of the Ministry of Defence’s approach to climate change and sustainability, leading directly to the 2021 Ministry of Defence Climate Change and Sustainability Strategic Approach.

Searching for a Place at the Table: What is The Role of the United Kingdom in the Development and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence?

The United Kingdom intends to position itself as a leader in the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystem, both in its innovation and development as well as its regulation. The government has released their proposal for “A Pro-Innovation Approach to AI Regulation”, intending to offer a middle-path between the prevailing “hands-off” approach to AI regulation in the USA and the stronger regulatory approach of the European Union.

Geopolitics of Advanced AI

Robert F. Trager is Co-Director of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, International Governance Lead at the Centre for the Governance of AI, and Senior Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He is a recognised expert in the international governance of emerging technologies, diplomatic practice, institutional design, and technology regulation. He regularly advises government and industry leaders on these topics.

Research Speed Meet-Up

You are invited to join other DPIR DPhils, post-docs and staff for a Researcher Meet-Up at 17:00-18:45 on Thursday, 19 October in the Manor Road Building Common Room to get to know each other and learn what others are working on.

This event aims to foster the culture of academic exchange at DPIR. It brings DPhil students, post-docs, and DPIR staff together, to exchange what they work on and research ideas to promote academic collaboration among peers.

Simeon Goldstraw

I am a DPhil student in Politics specialising in contemporary political theory. My thesis explores citizens' claims to leisure. Arguing against the dominant understanding of leisure as free time - which informs policies such as the four-day week - I call for a claim to an Aristotelian/Marxian conception of leisure which demands a wide bundle of leisure goods including, but not limited to, free time. In the process, I make contributions to debates in political theory pertaining to the capabilities approach, political liberalism and public goods.

Jeffrey Love

Jeffrey Love is a second year reading the MPhil in International Relations at St Antony’s College. His research uses large language models and natural language processing techniques to investigate the effects of sanctions and economic statecraft. He is supervised by Dr Ranjit Lall. 

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