Virginia is a DPhil candidate in International Relations at Balliol College, University of Oxford. Her doctoral research focuses on the role of the technology private sector as a site of great power competition between the United States and China, addressing private firms' geopolitical postures, involvement in third countries' critical national infrastructures and agency in global Artificial Intelligence (AI) race dynamics.

I am a DPhil student in Politics at Linacre College, where I research issues related to domestic and international election observation in Russia and in the wider post-Soviet region. Specifically, my study aims to enhance the understanding of the causes and mechanisms of the contestation over domestic and international election observation between Russia and national non-governmental, intergovernmental and international nonprofit organisations and Western states.

I am a Doctoral Candidate in Politics at Balliol College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. My research interests surround political behaviour, political sociology, affective polarisation, empathy, and direct democracy, which I study using surveys, experiments, and machine learning.

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