The previous departments of Sociology, Social Geography and Economic Geography have formed a joint department as part of the restructuring at the PLUS. This cross-faculty restructuring did not produce an obvious combination, but one that proved to be even more interesting.

06 April 2022 | online and in presence: My intent is mostly discuss historical aspects of the birth of globalization process in this lecture, and provide at least a brief introduction to the kind of economic theory that, I believe, demonstrates why archival historians are essential for creation of a (currently non-existent) field that can be thought of as Global Wealth History.

The article “Decolonising Quantitative Methods Pedagogy: Teaching Contemporary Politics to Challenge Hierarchies from Data” by Dr Nadine Zwiener-Collins and her three co-authors has won the Jacqui Briggs Award for the best paper in the ‘Teaching and Learning’ section of the journal Politics.