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Student news
1 Alejandro Biondi Rodriguez MSc Evidence Based Social Intervention & Policy Evaluation, 2020
As Social Protection project coordinator
at CIPPEC (Centre for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth), a major non-partisan think-tank in Argentina, Alejandro has co-authored El Género del Trabajo (The Gender of Work). This is the first book dedicated to gender economic equality in Argentina, from a human rights approach. The book came out in late
2019 in Spanish and an English Executive Summary was published in 2020. Both are freely available for download online.
In Alejandro’s role as researcher in Southern Voice’s flagship State of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) initiative he
has co-authored a Global Report on the state of 2030 Agenda implementation around the world. Southern Voice is an international platform for think-tanks, disseminating policy analysis by researchers from Global South countries. The Report
is closely aligned with research carried
out at Mansfield, especially because of its focus on the international human rights and development agendas. The digital edition
is freely available for download online,
in English, Spanish and French.
Alejandro is one of Mansfield’s first cohort of Kofi Annan Scholars – find out more about the Kofi Annan graduate scholarships on page 14.
2 Anya Gleizer
DPhil Geography & the Environment, 2020
In November 2020 Anya’s artwork, Granny’s Bones, was recreated for the Moscow Biennale. It was displayed within the Personal Places//Archival Spaces
exhibition, curated by Giulia Morale and Sterre Barentsen, and shown alongside the work of nine other international artists. This exhibition aimed to activate memories that live within lost archives and the personal stories of voices that have been historically marginalised.
Granny’s Bones, the ‘Pheasant’ and ‘Reindeer’ (currently residing in the foyer of the main building at Mansfield), and accompanying virtual reality film, was the winner of the inaugural (graduate) Mansfield-Ruddock Prize for Art in 2019.
3 Eve McCarten Jurisprudence, 2019
In 2020 Eve was appointed President of the Oxford First-Gen Society.
‘As President, I’m helping to grow a small yet supportive community that has real impact on the experiences of our students. First-Gen aims to support those who are the first in their family to go to university, through academic, social, and career-based events. We also work with the University and other organisations on widening participation projects. Twenty-five per cent of students admitted to our College this year are the first in their family to access higher education. I couldn’t be more proud of Mansfield and all the hard work that has helped make this happen.’
4 Henry Williams Engineering Science, 2016
This year, Henry was awarded ‘Highly Commendable’ in the Chemical category of the 2020 Oxford Engineering Science Fourth- Year Project Exhibition & Competition.
The competition offers fourth-year students at Oxford the opportunity to showcase their
work to researchers and academics within the Department of Engineering Science, as well as to alumni of the University, and representatives from industry.
5 Mohini Gupta
DPhil Oriental Studies, 2020
Mohini was recently featured in India’s leading newspaper, The Indian Express, for her initiative in languages and translation. She started a multilingual digital collective ‘Mother Tongue Twisters’ during the UK’s first lockdown in March. It attracted thousands of followers from around the world, and was featured in publications such as The Economic Times, Business Standard, Firstpost, The Telegraph (India) and the Columbia Journal.
Mohini’s digital talk series under this initiative, ‘Translation Thursdays’, has hosted writers and translators such as Jerry Pinto, Rita Kothari, Arshia Sattar, Roz Schwartz, Maureen Freely and Arunava Sinha, covering over
20 languages from India and around the world. She has always been passionate about languages, literature, and translation. Her DPhil research is centred on language politics in India and tropes of nationalism in the country.
You can read the article here: https://indian- express.com/article/books-and-literature/ mohini-gupta-conversations-6838662/
6 Mustaqim Iqbal & Yan Shen Tan Jurisprudence, 2018
In February, two of Mansfield’s second- year lawyers were part of the four- member University of Oxford team that won the first Northern European rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court competition in Paris. The Oxford team also scooped the prize for Best Memorials.
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