Research interests: the effects of the transformations in global political economy on the nature of work, forms of labour organisation, the subjectivities of labour, the links between labour migration, gender and social reproduction, and the problem of management in the social organisation of work.

 

Research interests:global political economy, macro-finance and international financial subordination, climate crisis, just green transitions, sustainable and climate finance. 

Research interests: migrant labour, gender, national state power, and global firms.

 

Research interests: the World Bank and the way in which it has constituted itself as an agent of global governance, its relation to US hegemonic agendas, and way in which its material basis in private finance mediates its pursuit of these agendas and influences the way in which 'development' strategies are operationalised.

 

Research interests: the intersection of environmental governance and political economy. 

 

Research interests: features of the contemporary financial landscape and competitiveness of global financial centres.

 

Research interests: critical political economy; climate change activism; civil disobedience, direct action; prefigurative politics.

 

Research interests: political-economy of employment relations in advanced economies, changing conditions for collective actions and its changing forms and effects – on workers’ rights, structure of employment relations and on the political economy, changing roles of trade unions (and the labour movement in general) in the design of macroeconomic growth.

 

 

Research interests: the political economy of development, gender, sexualities and African politics.

 

 

Research interests: the social and economic implications of bioscientific research, and specifically the collection and exchange of human biological materials.

  

Research interests: theorising capitalist diversity and in the development of capitalist institutions in comparative perspective.

 

Research interests: the process of urbanisation, the political economy of development, contentious politics, and urban governance, particularly (but not exclusively) in Africa and Asia.

 

Research interests: the sociology, politics and political economy of economic development; the developmental consequences of global production networks as well as on the relation of economic governance to inequality and poverty.

 

Research interests: corporate governance, corporate theory and the historical development of the large joint stock corporation and of corporate law (in particular the development of separate corporate personality and limited liability).

  

Research interests: intersecting the fields of contemporary social theory, posthumanist materialities of science, technology, and the environment, political ecology, and critical urban geography.

 

 

Research interests: Chinese International Political Economy; Economic Development and Policy-making in Greater China, in particular China and Taiwan.

 

Research interests: the intersection of political economy, finance and organisation studies from a broadly poststructuralist/post-Marxist perspective.  In particular, financial regulation, consumer debt and debt discourses as well as alternative models of organisational ownership and governance.

 

Research interests: exploring the intersection of political economy and welfare studies in relation to both new EU Member States as well as Candidate and Associate countries in Eastern Europe.  In particular, the uneven development of neoliberalism, Europeanization and the crisis in post-communist Europe.

Madison Lindeman, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: menstrual health, feminist political economy, gender, and urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa 

 

 

Research interests: economic geography, feminist political economy, neoliberalism; inequality; urban change.

 

Research interests: within the context of financial regulation, focused on the recalibration of the state’s relationship with financial markets and financial market actors in the light of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the commitment of public funds to “bail out” the sector.

 

Research interests: the politics of food within a context of globalising political economies.

 

Research interests: the innovation systems approach developed by evolutionary economists in response to the failures of the neoclassical framework to link innovation at the firm level with growth at the aggregate level.

 

Dr Colin Nolden, University of Bristol Law School 

Research interests: energy and climate service business models, energy and climate policy, and sustainability. 

 

Research interests: the treatment of labour in the context of trade in services.

 

 

Research interests: institutions and institutional change, especially the study of corruption, rent-seeking, and economic crises.

 

Research interests: International Political Economy, Comparative Political Economy, financialization in emerging capitalist economies, central banks, Macrofinance, growth and financial models in emerging capitalist economies in Latin America, US - Latin America public policy relationship.  

Prof Gabriel Siles-Brugge, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: the (de)legitimation of economic policy through ideas, evidence, and expert knowledge; practitioner engagement in the areas of trade policy and Brexit.

 

Research interests: all aspects of corporate governance from a critical perspective.

 

Research interests: international business, multinational enterprise, foreign direct investment, global factory, global value chain, emerging economy, business and human rights.

Qizhen Wang, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies

Research interests: Global political economy; China's enterprises' internationalisation; The Belt and Road Initiative; Bourdieu's sociology; International Practice Theory. 

 

Yuhan Wang, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Research interests: how infrastructure designs of WeChat afford Chinese users to generate national habitus through everyday use; infrastructure designs through the lens of industries of digital platforms and mobile applications, tech companies’ business strategies, and the state’s ambition and plans; tech start-ups (from Silicon Valley, China, and across the world).

 

Research interests: labour politics and social democracy.

 

Research interests: the fields of comparative politics, political economy, and South Asian politics/area studies. 

 

Research interests: geopolitics and geoeconomics of East and Southeast Asia; regionalism and development in East Asia.