Centre for Global Politics, Economy and Society (GPES)
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Director: Dr Tina Managhan, Dr Chrissie Steenkamp
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Tina Managhan and Chrissie Steenkamp have taken over the directorship of the Centre from Dan Bulley. Dan Bulley is staying in the leadership team, with a focus on the seminar series.
About us
An inter-disciplinary research centre with a remit to encourage reflection on social transformations of global scope. The Centre provides a forum for scholars to collaborate and explore such phenomena through theory construction and empirical investigation.
The Centre’s commitment to inter-disciplinarity offers its members and affiliates excellent opportunities for contacts and networking, as well as a venue for collective reflection.
We seek to provide a lively intellectual environment for our members and sponsor a varied programme of events including workshops, symposia, conferences and talks from visiting academics.\
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The Centre is committed to the dissemination of high quality research to a wide audience, which includes the academy, policy makers, business and civil society.
Our research is currently making an impact in UK foreign aid policy, government understanding of Ukrainian politics, public understandings of Vietnamese migration, public policy on family caring practices and reproductive health, and the production of Voting Advice Apps to help inform the public when making election decisions.
More information can be found in the detailed impact of our specific research projects (see below).
Leadership
Professor Dan Bulley
Head of School, Professor of International Relations
Dr Molly Cochran
Associate Professor in International Relations
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Professor Michael Lister
Professor of Politics
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Dr Tina Managhan
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
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Dr Lili Schwoerer
Lecturer in Sociology
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Dr Chrissie Steenkamp
Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies
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Dr Jon Wheatley
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics
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Cultures, Identities and Divisions
International Political Theory (IPT)
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Active projects
| Project title and description | Investigator(s) | Funder(s) | Dates |
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| What kind of military does Ukraine want and need? Assessing the importance of strategic and political context for military reforms. Combining the applicants’ language skills and expertise in post-Soviet military transformation and Ukrainian politics, this timely project will assess two important factors that are essential for the successful pursuit of reforms, yet rarely figure in analyses, because they do not fit into dominant analytical frameworks: Ukraine’s geostrategic idiosyncrasies and the significance of the political context, especially regarding civilian control, within which the reforms are carried out. | Dr Sarah Whitmore | Leverhulme Trust, BEIS | From: October 2019 Until: September 2022 |
| Voting Advice Applications Jon Wheatley has been designing and deploying Voter Advice Applications (VAAs) during critical elections in over 30 countries at supranational (EU) level, at national level, and at sub-national level since 2010. VAAs are online tools that match their users' policy preferences with those of candidates or parties, providing users with a visual display that indicates the voting options that best correspond with their preferences. | Dr Jon Wheatley | From: September 2020 Until: August 2022 | |
| Double Trouble: Effect of Violent Conflict on the Abuse and Misuse of Medicine in the MENA Region Violent conflict has a detrimental effect on public health when civilians are injured, diseases spread and health infrastructures collapse. This project investigates an often-neglected aspect of public health during conflicts: the impact of violent conflict on the abuse and misuse of prescription and non-prescription medicines ('drugs') amongst local populations. It aims to understand the impact of different forms of violent conflict on patterns and levels of drug abuse/misuse in four MENA region countries: Iraq, Libya, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen. The study uses a quantitative survey and semi-structured interviews with community pharmacists to gather data about pharmacists' experiences, perceptions and responses to drug abuse/misuse in conflict societies. | Dr Chrissie Steenkamp | British Academy | From: January 2021 Until: December 2022 |
Annual conference
In the Name of ‘Freedom’: Right-Wing Populism and the End of the Liberal World Order
1:30 pm 24 January 2023 to 6:00 pm 25 January 2023
The event brings together commentators from across the globe and from markedly different disciplines and perspectives to discuss the way right-wing populism is framed within a discourse of freedom.
Annual lecture
The 2021 GPES Annual Lecture was given by Professor Kehinde Andrews in April 2021 on the topic of his new book: The New Age of Imperialism. This was delivered online due to Covid restrictions.
We were due to welcome Kate Raworth to give the second annual lecture in April 2020 but this had to be cancelled at short notice due to the Covid-19 national lockdown.
GPES was delighted to welcome writer and activist George Monbiot to give the first GPES Annual Lecture in April 2019 on the subject of Environmental Breakdown - and how to stop it.