September 2002- Zoe obtains her Doctorate in Social and Political Sciences, from the European University Institute, in Italy. She embarks finally on realising her dream: developing herself as a skilled artist. She follows a few drawing and sculpture lessons at the Charles Cecil Studios, which she pays for by working as a model and cleaner. She continues with academia as half-time research assistant to Prof. Helen Wallace at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, and works on the publication of her book 'Living Boundaries: identity in the Basque Country'.