Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development

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The Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development (GTD) research programme brings together research conducted within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences that focuses on the Global South using a transnational perspective. The Global South refers to developing countries as well as recently emerging economic powers such as China and India. While its geographic grounding is the Global South, GTD’s research approach centres on exploring North – South and South – South linkages and flows of people, goods, capital and ideas. Researchers use a transnational perspective to investigate such linkages, giving GTD its distinctive profile. A commonality is that research is strongly grounded in empirical, primary data collection work using mixed methods ranging from anthropological qualitative fieldwork to sociological quantitative surveys.

Laura Ogden, postdoc researcher in the MO-TRAYL project, was one of four finalists for the NWO's Synergy Award '22, which gives PhD students an opportunity to explore the potential social impact of their research. 

During the Synergy event, Laura presented the project 'From Generations to Trajectories: Rethinking the Way We Categorise Migrant Youth'.

In this short video, she explains the MO-TRAYL research and proposed Synergy Award project.

News

Lauren Wagner receives NIAS fellowship

Lauren will spend February-June 2025 in Amsterdam at NIAS among a group of international fellows who are working independently in a wide variety of disciplines, problems, and research perspectives.

Lauren Wagner

2 NWO PhD in the Humanities grants for FASoS

Max Boutell and Sharon Anyango will work on separate projects on the role adaptive architects in the neoliberal turn, and on gender expectations of Somali and Eritrean refugees in the Netherlands.

Max Boutell and Sharon Anyango

Pablo Del Hierro wins FASoS Valorisation Prize

Pablo Del Hierro has been awarded this year’s Valorisation Prize for his outreach activities following the project "(Neo)Fascist Metropolis: Madrid and the Transnational Far Right Networks since the end of the Spanish Civil War". The honourable mention this year goes to Elsje Fourie’s and Christin...

Pablo del Hierro

Elsje Fourie awarded NWO SSH XS grant

Elsje Fourie receives €50,000 in the NWO SSH XS funding scheme for the project ‘Global Novels, Global Readers? Imagining transnational communities along the circuits of global literary consumption’

Elsje Fourie

Who wants to use my (m)ap(p)?

Failure is part of life, but not something academics talk about often. In this interview, Brigitte Le Normand reflects on the failure of her creative research outputs.

Brigitte le Normand