Alice Figes

Alice Figes

Research Interest

Alice earned her undergraduate degree in History at the University of Oxford. She has been based in Bologna, Italy since 2018, where she has worked as a journalist and translator (Italian & French). She has written about UK, European, and in particular, Italian politics for publications such as Internazionale, The New European and Open Democracy. She has volunteered and worked with Bologna's Migrant Coordination as part of the collective Connessioni Precarie. Some of her work included reporting and in-depth interviews with migrants and activists for UK and Italian publications. In 2021 she graduated with a Distinction from LSE's European Institute with an MSc degree in Culture and Conflict in a Global Europe where she specialised in particular in Political Philosophy, Intellectual History, Anthropocene Studies, Social Movement and Democratic Theory.