Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures

male and female researchers working on pcs

Early career researchers

Find out more about the PhD and early career researchers associated with the Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures’ network.

Rachel Alexander

Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester.
Research interests: Global Production Networks, Sustainable Business, Small and Medium Enterprise Clusters.

Dr. Lucy Baker

University of Sussex.
Research interests: South Africa, energy, socio-technical transitions, political economy.

Corinna Braun-Munzinger

Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester.
Research interests: Global Production Networks, sustainability standards, industrial policy, state-business relations, China, Brazil.

Lidia Cabral

Institute of Development Studies.
Research interests: Discourse-analytical perspectives on policy-making, especially in agriculture; emerging donors in international development and South-South cooperation; Brazilian cooperation policy and politics; Brazil-Africa relations.

Saheli Datta

Department of Political Economy and King’s India Institute, King’s College London.
Research interests: Currently, Saheli’s research focuses on understanding the dynamics between transnational institutions and the political economy of emerging national bioinnovation systems in the cutting edge research area of regenerative medicine. She will be specifically looking to identify and reflect on the policy issues faced by the governments of India and China as they seek to engage with the complex global value chain of innovation in the life sciences where inter-state cooperation is an increasingly prominent feature.

Maria Karaulova

Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.
Research Interests: social construction of science and innovation; scientific migration; globalisation of science; postmodern science; bibliometric analysis tools; unobtrusive data.

Dr. Joshua Kirshner

Department of Geography, Durham University.
Research interests: Brazil-Africa cooperation, energy transitions, low carbon urban development, extractive industry and enclaves, sub-national regions, infrastructure, migration, post-development, urban political ecology, urban and regional planning in the global south, Mozambique, South Africa, Bolivia, Brazil, comparative research between Africa and Latin America.

Chao Li

Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.
Research Interests: Innovation Strategies of SMEs, Technology Innovation Management, Emerging/Transitional Innovation Systems, Innovation Policy.

Xiao Liang

Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.
Research Interests: Innovation Policy, Innovation Strategies, Emerging Technology Innovation, Technology Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship

Catherine Owen

University of Exeter.
Research interests: Russia, post-communism, civic participation in governance, authoritarianism, neoliberalism, Central Asia.

Oliver Shackleton

Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.
Research interests: Public Policy, Science policy, Innovation, Transitional States, Knowledge Institutions, Bibliometrics, Mixed Methods.

Dr. Giuseppina Siciliano

Centre for Development, Environment and Policy CeDEP, School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS, University of London.
Research interests: Sustainability, Rural Development, Ecological Economics, Participatory Multicriteria Decision Analysis, Integrated assessment, Land Grabs.

Alec Waterworth

Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.
Research Interests: systems of innovation, industrial policy, global value chains, entrepreneurial universities, web mining, bibliometric analysis tools, unobtrusive data.