DPRU Research Interns
Since 2018, the DPRU and The Death Penalty Project have collaborated on Research Internships, with Oxford MSc or DPhil students conducting small death penalty research projects under the joint supervision of Carolyn Hoyle and the DPP’s Saul Lehrfreund and Parvais Jabbar.
During the academic year 2023-24, the DPP-DPRU Research Interns are Jackson Foster, Hanqing Xu and Francesca Rigg.
The DPRU's research projects have benefitted from assistance from a number of past DPP-DPRU Research Interns, including:
- Francesca Rigg and Aimee Clesi (2022-23)
- Charlotte Daintith, Julia Udell, Karan Tripathi, Preeti Pratishruti Dash, Rhea Singh, Rhea Wakim and Valencia Scott (2021-22)
- Caroline Vorce, Brian Egan and Emma Rice (2020-21)
Annalena Wolcke was our first DPRU Summer Intern, in 2021. She conducted research on why certain countries abolished the death penalty at the time they did, focusing on a few countries from Europe and South America. While her research was limited to English-speaking sources, she was surprised by the range of influences, including EU-membership, for which abolition is obligatory, larger political and legal shifts towards democracy and both national and international pressure.
In 2019, Anjuli Peter’s Report on Compounded Violence: Domestic Abuse and the Mandatory Death Penalty in Ghana and Sierra Leone was published on the DPP website.