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Welcome

The Global Studies Centre provides a supportive, uplifting and energising home for internationally-focused researchers who share a passion for discovery, especially that is featured with relevant aspects particularly to emerging markets, and Grand Challenges with aspiration to generate impact and enhance research quality at Durham University. 

Our research themes include emerging economies, Grand Challenges, international marketing strategy, global strategy, international human resource management, internationalisation, digitalisation, and SMEs.

Our Centre is in partnership with Aalto Centre for Qualitative Management Research, Aalto University, the Department of Strategy and International Business, University of Birmingham, and the International Business Group, Newcastle University. Our research is driven by wide-range international collaborations, e.g. with scholars from Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the USA, and businesses and entrepreneurs from emerging markets across the world.

We regularly organise research events to enhance our research capacities, and have hosted world leading scholars such as Prof Russell W. Belk (York), Prof Keith Brouthers (King’s College London), Prof Peter Buckley (Manchester), Prof Ajai Gaur (Rutgers), Prof David Griffith (Texas A&M), Prof Jean-Francois Hennart (Tilburg), Prof Jiatao Li (HKU), Prof Fabrice Lumineau (HKU), Prof Rose Xuewei Luo (Instead), Prof Xueming Luo (Temple), Prof Grazia Santangelo (Copenhagen), Prof Martin Schreier (WU), Prof Siri Terjesen (FAU).

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GSC’s main focus lies in understanding businesses and consumers in the globalising markets.

Xinming He 
Centre Director and Professor of Marketing

Explore Our Research Centre

Our members are highly inter-disciplinary in the named research areas and have been working extensively together in a wide spectrum of scholarly work.

Our Research

We work to address important cross-disciplinary research questions.
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Our People

Get in touch with our outstanding team of researchers.
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Our Publications

Browse our researchers' published works.
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Upcoming events

Colonialism Inc.: The Private Interests Behind Germany's Imperial Ambitions

Wednesday 15 October 2025 - Wednesday 15 October 2025
2:00 PM to 3:00 AM
Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane
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'Rethinking vulnerability: Breathing, grieving and appearing as sites of/for organizing', a seminar by Prof Melissa Tyler (University of Essex)

Wednesday 29 October 2025 - Wednesday 29 October 2025
2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Durham University Business School, Waterside Building
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'What makes authentic leaders ‘bad’ and inauthentic leaders ‘good’?', a seminar by Prof Andrea Whittle (Newcastle University Business School)

Wednesday 19 November 2025 - Wednesday 19 November 2025
2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Durham University Business School, Waterside Building
The impact of ethical leaders on today's workforce

'Theorising the Ordinary and Everyday of Leadership: Lessons from Modernist Literature and Virginia Woolf', a seminar by Prof Brigid Carroll (University of Auckland)

Wednesday 26 November 2025 - Wednesday 26 November 2025
2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Durham University Business School, Waterside Building
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Get in Touch

If you would like to find out more about the Global Studies Centre, please email Prof Xinming He, Director and Professor of Marketing.

Global Studies Centre (GSC)

Durham University Business School 
Waterside Building
Riverside Place
Durham DH1 1SL, UK 

Tel: +44 (0)191 334 5200