Oxford Political Review (OPR) is celebrating the launch of its 15th print issue, under the theme ‘Home’, with a panel discussion on the politics of place and belonging, featuring Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, Brian Wong, and Yaroslava Bukhta.

Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations. Her research focuses on the politics of place in European countries. In the context of a growing recognition that spatial inequality affects political outcomes, she studies the institutional and socio-political factors that affect economic performance at the local level, and the impact of local economic trajectories on political attitudes and outcomes. Her work has been published in New Political Economy and the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, among other journals.

Brian Wong is a HKU-100 Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and a Rhodes Scholar (DPhil in Politics, Balliol College). His research examines the intersection of geopolitics, political and moral philosophy, and technology, with particular interests in the ethics and dynamics of authoritarian regimes and their foreign policies, responding to historical and colonial injustices, and the impact of automation on labour and human societies.

Yaroslava Bukhta is a DPhil student in Anthropology at Oxford, specialising in knowledge production on contemporary warfare, with a focus on the role of media in the coverage of the Russia’s war against Ukraine. Prior to Oxford, she worked in communications, journalism, and social research, collaborating with outlets such as EURACTIV (Brussels), Ukrainer (Ukraine), and Slidstvo.Info (Ukraine), and leading communications projects for international organisations in Ukraine. Through her work, she challenges stereotypes surrounding Ukraine and media research, emphasising the importance of understanding complex identities in both academic and social contexts.