Licinia Guttel

DPhil Politics, 2023
Clarendon Scholarship

Originally from Germany, Licinia completed her undergraduate Dual French-German degree in Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin and Sciences Po Paris. She then completed her master’s in social science of the Internet at the University of Oxford. She became interested in the internet and digitalisation through the lenses of political science, researching how digital technologies influence politics and how political actors are talking about the role of digital technologies in society. During her time in Berlin, where she also gained research experience at an internet research institute, she realised that she wanted to pursue a pathway that combines political science research with the study of digitalisation, ultimately motivating her decision to study in Oxford.

Currently in her third year of her DPhil, she is researching what political parties and citizens think of digitalisation. Her work explores public opinion on digitalisation in Europe and studies how political parties make sense of these technology.