Lucy McDonald is a PhD student at Cambridge University. Originally from London, she graduated from Oxford University with a first in PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), and then went on to complete the two year BPhil, Oxford’s famous master’s programme in philosophy. Her primary interests are in philosophy of language, social epistemology, political philosophy and feminist philosophy, and her PhD project, focusing on hate speech, combines all of these interests. Before university Lucy spent a year working in the Houses of Parliament, working variously for an MP, a political party policy unit and the Deputy Prime Minister. Lucy has considerable teaching experience; she has worked for several years as a private tutor, taught at summer schools in both Oxford and Cambridge and served as an admissions interviewer at Oxford.

Calvin Chan is a DPhil candidate in philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford. His research covers a range of topics in moral, political, and legal philosophy. He has taught a number of papers on these topics at the undergraduate level, as well as the PPE course at Oxford’s UNIQ summer school. He has also worked on the admissions team at Merton College, interviewing candidates for Computer Science and Philosophy, Maths and Philosophy, as well as Physics and Philosophy.

Lili Owen Rowlands is a postgraduate student at Wadham College, University of Oxford. She graduated with a double first with oral distinction in Philosophy and French at University College London before coming to Oxford to complete an MSt in French theory and literature. She has also worked for two years as a journalist and editor, reporting from Tahiti to Las Vegas, Venice to Rajasthan. Her primary research interests are the use of philosophy and theory within contemporary French feminist writing, gender theory and continental philosophy. Lili has considerable teaching experience, having worked as a private tutor as well as a graduate access tutor for both Wadham College and the University of Oxford.