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CGR Research Projects

Several members of the Centre for Globalisation Research have external funding to finance their projects. Some of the current research projects funded by external entities are:

'The Fair Trade Movement, legal support and social implications'

Principal investigator: Brigitte Granville
Co-investigator: Janet Dine
Project Base: Queen Mary, University of London
Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (£457,946)

'Reassessing the Mark: A historical view of trademarks and British competitiveness'

Principal investigator: Teresa da Silva Lopes
Co-investigator: Paul Duguid
Project Base: Queen Mary, University of London
Funder: Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) (£434,640)

'Drug trials over volunteering prevention through the use of semantic software'

Principal investigator: Peter Dabnichki
Co-investigator: Dorota Bourne
Funder: Knowledge Transfer Partnership Office Partnership with Richmond Pharmacology Ltd (£461,317)

'Cohort effects within firms, and their implications for labour markets and the business cycle'

Principal investigator: Jonathan Thomas, Edinburgh
Co-investigator: Pedro Martins
Project Base: University of Edinburgh
Funder: Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) (£330,313)

'European labour market analysis using firm-level panel data and linked employer - employee data'

Principal investigator: David Marsden, LSE
Co-investigator: Pedro Martins
Project Base: London School of Economics
Funder: European Commission (€350,000)

'The influence of higher education on the dynamics of entering and exiting entrepreneurship: A longitudinal study'

Principal investigator: Francisco Lima, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
Co-investigator: Pedro Martins
Funder: Fundação para a Ciância e a Tecnologia (€110,000)

'Promotional and organisational portfolio development for the Circus Space'

Principal (sole) investigator: Dorota Bourne
Funder: Knowledge Connect (£10,000)

'Organisational change for business diversification on the European Market'

Principal investigator: Dorota Bourne
Project Base: Queen Mary, University of London
Funder: Richmond Pharmaceuticals Limited (£459,986)

'Trade and currency reforms in India: How exporting firms behave in the global market place'

Principal Investigator: Sushanta Mallick
Co-investigator: Helena Marques
Project Base: Queen Mary, University of London
Funder: British Academy (£6,900)

'Competitiveness, innovation and tangible investment in Europe'

Principal investigator: Jonathan Haskel
Researcher: Pedro Martins
Project Base: Queen Mary, University of London
Funder: European Commission (€1400.000)

'First-time diversification and entrepreneurial entry over the product life-cycle'

Principal investigator: Rui Baptista, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
Co-investigator: Pedro Martins
Funder: Fundação para a Ciância e a Tecnologia (€199,000)

'The role of foreign multinationals in the Brazilian labour market'

Principal investigator: Pedro Martins
Project Base: Queen Mary, University of London
Funder: British Academy (£7,500)

'Multinational firms and working conditions'

Principal investigator: Pedro Martins
Project Base: Queen Mary, University of London
Funder: OECD, Paris (€8,500)

'New regions of technological advantage in India and China'

Principal investigator: Martha Prevezer
Project Base: Queen Mary, University of London
Funder: British Academy (£7,328)

Moreover, members of the Centre are engaged in several joint research projects, such as:

  • Knowledge Networks Amongst Inventors (Martha Prevezer and Pietro Panzaraza)
  • Social Networks in Labour Markets (Pietro Panzaraza and Pedro Martins)
  • Global Multinationals and Multibrand Strategic Management (Teresa da Silva Lopes and Mark Casson)
  • Monetary and Financial Stability in a Currency Area Monetary Regime: Evidence from the EMU (Brigitte Granville and Sushanta Mallick)
  • The Economics of Imitation, Theft and Creativity (Brigitte Granville, Carol Scott Leonard and Eshref Trushin)
  • Financial Globalisation (Santonu Basu and Sushanta Mallick)
  • Assessing the New Consensus Macroeconomics (Alvaro Angeriz and Philip Arestis)
  • Growth and Poverty In The World Economy (Alvaro Angeriz, Philip Arestis and Shanti Chakravarty)