 Hi, I'm Karina and I studied international relations for my Undergrad at King's and I'm now in my first full-time role since graduating where I work in risk and data protection at a FinTech. So essentially my role is ensuring that the business protects people's data and meets all of its obligations in regards to people's privacy and I also contribute to risk analysis especially when it comes to the global expansion of the business. So after graduating from my undergrad I was also accepted into a master's course and MSc at Oxford so I'm also going to talk briefly about how my undergraduate degree at King's prepared me for you know applying for a post-grad at Oxbridge if that's something that you're considering or interested in doing. So just starting with how my undergraduate degree prepared me for my current role in risk and data protection. Studying IR at King's really gave me the ability and just practice with thinking very creatively and very critically about real-world issues, real-world conflicts and dilemmas which is definitely something that I endeavour to bring to the workplace when thinking you know holistically about real risks that impact businesses so everything from political risk to operational and financial risks I think this also comes paired with an ability to think very creatively about solutions that you might offer to these kind of very significant issues which is especially valuable when working in a startup, a scale-up or in a very exciting new market. In terms of applying to a post-grad in my case at Oxford but also kind of applicable to applying to post-grad degrees at any very prestigious university I think the great thing about studying IR at King's is that there's such a huge variety of specialized modules that allow you to really you know build the depth of knowledge that is the basis that these universities want to build on in during your master's degree and so I think it's far more credible to apply to Oxbridge and you know other amazing universities if you're coming from a position in which you've already specialized in the subject matter so you already have ideas about kind of what aspect of that subject matter interests you the most, what theories etc and in my case I was accepted into an MSc in global migration and in my application I was able to make reference to my dissertation where I explored cultural constructions of migrant identities and you know questions of belonging in a globalized world and I was able to speak very confidently about this niche and I'm really kind of credibly express my interest in the subjects and I think that made all the difference when when we're getting an offer so I hope that this advice was somewhat helpful in understanding where you'll be able to take an IR degree the answer is really anywhere you want which is super exciting prospect so good luck to all applicants and prospective students and I hope that you really enjoy your time at King's.