We hope to pass some of this encouragement on with our video messages here (youtube.com/playlist?lis...).

Trust your ideas and apply - whether it is Oxford or elsewhere!

I am so glad to have had the encouragment from my friends - @icuervo.bsky.social, @ivantubiosanles.bsky.social and others - which pushed me to apply to @politicsoxford.bsky.social for my PhD.

Applying to Oxford in 2022, it took a lot of convincing from people I trusted for me to see myself as someone with a chance at getting in - or of thriving in the kind of place I expected Oxford to be. For women, historically underrepresented in elite programs like ours, this is a common experience.