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 Agnes Yu

Agnes Yu

PhD candidate

Department of International Relations

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Languages
Cantonese, English, Mandarin
Key Expertise
political behaviour; domestic and international protest; survey methods

About me

My research centres around political psychology and behaviour. I am interested in how individuals conceptualise linkages between international and domestic politics, and how individuals conceptualise the possibilities and limits of their political agency in both spheres. Specifically, I am interested in how acts of protest may shape such conceptualisations and how protest participation becomes amplified or constrained in return. I explore these interests comparatively through the contexts of the US and Poland. In my work, I utilise a variety of research methods, including surveys, interviews, participatory fieldwork, and experimental designs.

Alongside my PhD project, I am also interested in observational and ethical questions surrounding measurement when compiling and utilising large-scale conflict data. I am also interested in how we measure and utilise ‘fear’ in conflict research, and how emotions may act as indicators for ‘hard to observe’ phenomena.

I hold an Honours Bachelors of Arts in International Relations and Ethics, Society and Law (ES&L) from the University of Toronto, and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford.

At ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, I am supported by the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Studentship Funding Scheme, and previously served as Deputy Editor for Vol. 50 of Millennium: Journal of International Studies.

Research topic

The International is Actionable: Protest as Agency and Linkage Between Domestic and International Politics   

Teaching experience

IR100 International Relations: Theories, Concepts and Debates (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

IR490 The Strategy of Conflict in International Relations (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

POL147A Theory and Politics of International Relations (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS) 

Academic supervisor

Milli Lake

(UCL)

Research Cluster affiliation

Security and Statecraft Research Cluster

Theory/Area/History Research Cluster

 

Expertise Details

Emotions in politics; social movements; social networks; survey experiments; political psychology and behaviour; relations between domestic and international politics; cosmopolitanisms and internationalisms