(AGENPARL) – MANCHESTER mer 14 giugno 2023

Dr Elisa Gambino was the recipient of the Hallsworth Research Fellowship. The three-year fellowship will begin in January 2024 and will explore “African hubs, Chinese trade, and global circulation in West Africa”.

Her study will take a new approach, investigating more diffuse, smaller-scale patterns of investment and the entrepreneurial networks driving it. Deploying a mixed-method strategy combining survey, interview, and ethnographic data, it analyses how the internationalisation of Chinese private capital and the attendant proliferation of transnational trade networks are reshaping regional integration in West Africa. By providing a fuller account of Chinese outward engagement, the project contributes to wider political economy debates about how its rising power is reconfiguring economic globalisation.

Dr Smith Ouma, currently a post-doctoral researcher on the African Cities Research Consortium, was awarded a 36 month Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. His project will be on Data Justice land struggles and right to the city in the global North and South.

Professor Stephanie Barrientos has been awarded the Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship for two years (October 2023-2025) to work on a book on Fairer Trade in Global Value Chains. The award is in addition to her Emeritus Professorship at the University of Manchester. Below is an abstract from her forthcoming publication: Fairer Trade in Global Value Chains: Does it Work?

Fonte/Source: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/three-gdi-academics-receive-prestigious-hallsworth-and-leverhulme-fellowships/