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Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)

GROUILLE, Olivier- Clare College, 2010

MPhil in International Relations

Reading for a PhD researching counter-terrorism and strategy. Running a Cambridge-based defence, security and foreign policy think tank called CamSAI- The Cambridge Security Analysis Institute. We are always looking for new Associate Fellows so please !

 

KENT, Avidan – Wolfson, 2010

PhD Politics and International Relations

Lecturer in School of Law, University of East Anglia

 

GIOE, David – Corpus Christi, 2011

PhD Politics and International Studies

Assistant Professor of Military History, United States Military Academy, West Point

 

WARK, Lucy  - Trinity, 2011

BA PPS/Management Studies 

Graduated June 2016 from MA at University of Chicago, through Trinity's Chicago Exchange. Since then, working as a freelance journalist (writing mainly about politics) and for a London/Berlin-based financial technology startup, BrickVest.

 

 

KAPOOR, Digant - Queens', 2012

Mphil in International Relations

COO, Shaurya Furnishing- heading a 29 year old family business specialising in furnishing fabrics.

 

BARNES, Colin (Dr.), Wolfson, 2013

MSt International Relations

After obtaining a PhD in economics from the University of Manchester, working as an independent economist, recently on marine resource issues in Kenya and the Seychelles.

 

 

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The 2025 R.A. Butler Prize winners have been announced

16 September 2025

The R.A. Butler Prize for essays in politics and international studies is an annual competition open to students in Year 12 or the Lower 6th. Established in memory of the former Master of Trinity College, Lord Butler, who most famously served as Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, and who was responsible for...