Margot Gibson, 22, from Christchurch is one of three New Zealanders to be awarded 2017 Rhodes Scholarships for post-graduate study at the University of Oxford.

Margot graduated from the University of Canterbury this year with a LLB(Hons) and BA in political science and history.

She is currently undertaking an internship with New Zealand’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Vienna.

At Oxford she will study a MPhil in international relations, focusing on recent laws allowing states to revoke a person’s citizenship if they are suspected of travelling overseas to become a foreign fighter, and have dual citizenship.