✅ Dr. Estefania Dominguez Pizarro successfully defended her thesis “Global Distributive Injustice and the War on Drugs in Colombia and Mexico”. Her research develops a novel analytical framework of ‘structural coercion’, making a significant impact on debates in distributive justice.

✅ Dr Jinru Huang successfully defended his thesis “What Does Education Accountability Do? A Case Study on China’s Ethnic Minority Education”. His work provides a rigorous and original contribution to the intersection of politics and education.

✅ Dr Susan Ann Samuel successfully defended her thesis “The Normative Influence of Climate Movements on the UNFCCC COP Negotiations”. Her research offers an original contribution to understanding how global norms advocated by climate movements shape international climate negotiations.