Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development
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.
Director: Dr. Brigitte Le Normand
Key research themes
Research in GTD focuses on three areas: transnational migrant families and networks; transnational knowledge exchanges for development; state capital and global development.
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.