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An Introduction
The heart and soul of the GEM PhD School is the research accomplished by its constituent members and their associated collaborators. The work produced by this transnational research community involves a wide array of fields and puzzles associated with the challenges facing “Globalisation, the EU and Multilateralism”.
By supporting the dialogue and collaboration of a pluralistic group of experts and researchers from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, the GEM PhD School seeks to support innovative research aimed at: either offering new insights into the challenges facing regional and global governance; or even fostering paradigmatic shifts in how Social Scientist address such questions.
Original Questions & Pluralistic Dialogues
Doctoral research supported by the GEM PhD School explores a variety of both global and regional forms of governance. The specific questions addressed in the scope of the programme are collaboratively build-up starting from the selected research fellows’ own interests and initial research proposal. As a result, the GEM PhD School Research Fellows cover a plurality of topics bound by a common concern for the evolving international system and its impact on international and regional multilateral innitiatives.
At present, the GEM PhD School includes 19 doctoral researchers - including 17 nationalities and around 10 distinctive disciplinary backgrounds from within the Social Sciences. As a result, the GEM PhD School is a buzzing hive of activity allowing for both disciplinary excellence and interdisciplinary dialogue.
Each individual doctoral research project is embedded into one of the 3 more focussed Jointly Executed Research Projects (JERP) which make up the GEM-research agenda – i.e. AMETRINE, CITRINE and MORGANITE.
Together they cover a pluralistic and critical approach to the interests, ideas and institutions shaping the current global and regional governance systems. Through both the individual doctoral research projects, as well as the productive interactions of all its affiliated members; the GEM PhD School strives to foster a working and productive transnational epistemic community offering its members privileged training and research facilities.
