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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">On behalf of Elena Barabantseva (co leader WG Labour and Migration) I am sending you some information about new funding opportunities made available through
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>UKRI Network Plus: Shifting Global Polarities
</b>which may be of interest to some of you</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">This year’s theme led by the University of Glasgow is<b> ‘Infrastructures for a (dis)connected world.’</b></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 212);"><b><u><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/projects/network-plus-shifting-global-polarities__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!C0xqabyaHZ0Lka0NTRyC0QAudRP7FQnJ8uembeLxQ7vm50Ch1ev_ix032Xour9mix9ojOQbnzgTqGYqzDORXQYw6bqCpO3QnL-hVfBc$" target="_blank" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/projects/network-plus-shifting-global-polarities__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!C0xqabyaHZ0Lka0NTRyC0QAudRP7FQnJ8uembeLxQ7vm50Ch1ev_ix032Xour9mix9ojOQbnzgTqGYqzDORXQYw6bqCpO3QnL-hVfBc$" data-outlook-id="54639465-c5c6-4406-995b-e92490196772" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Shifting
 Global Polarities website [birmingham.ac.uk]</a></u></b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> together with the online application forms:</span></p>
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 Calls [birmingham.ac.uk]</a></u></span></p>
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<b>14/11</b>)</span></p>
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 Projects [birmingham.ac.uk]</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> (closing date
<b>14/11</b>)</span></p>
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 Fellowships [birmingham.ac.uk]</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> (closing date
<b>14/11</b>)</span></p>
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 Workshop [birmingham.ac.uk]</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> (closing date
<b>28/11</b>) </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>Prof. Nana de Graaff</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;"> |
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">Professor of Global Politics and Networks,
<b>VU Amsterdam</b>  </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);"><u><a href="https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/na-de-graaff" data-outlook-id="70c8e3f1-98cc-4cc2-ada6-4f7296f6fcd0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/na-de-graaff</a></u> 
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">| Principal Investigator <b>ReGlobe</b>:
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);"><u><a href="https://www.re-globe.eu" data-outlook-id="08fec9df-bd9d-4d56-9a3c-c65478119123" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.re-globe.eu</a></u>
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">|Chair <b>China in Europe Research Network (CHERN</b>):
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: purple;"><u><a href="https://china-in-europe.net/" data-outlook-id="05893f9d-307c-43a0-9cf2-631ba574893d" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://china-in-europe.net</a></u></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;"> |Co-editor
<b>RIPE</b> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="https://www.routledge.com/RIPE-Series-in-Global-Political-Economy/book-series/RIPE?srsltid=AfmBOoplxtNs7wuq-BWFQF3bhILt9Q9aFvhrRgpHo2RxeiBGpngRnWw4" data-outlook-id="b066d9bb-9087-4a54-90b9-5952c8878b33" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Series
 in Global Political Economy</a></u></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">, Routledge</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;"><b>Selected recent publications</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;"><b>‘</b>The Geoeconomic turn in International Trade, Investment and Technology’, Special Issue
<i>Politics and Governance</i>, Vol 12. (2024) <u>open access</u></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">:</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: white;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: blue;"><u><a href="https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.i383" data-outlook-id="6e194aa4-a338-464c-9afd-92d4a4e71bd0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.i383</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; background-color: white;">‘Chinese Multinationals and Europe’s Geoeconomic turn: The De-Globalization of the Chinese ECT and Automotive Industry?; Politics and Governance, Vol 12. (2024),
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;"><u>open access</u></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: white;">:
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.8195" data-outlook-id="9e31b8cd-848e-448a-88c9-d0ebdcf80d9c" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.8195</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">Trump and the Remaking of American Grand Strategy: The Shift from Open Door Globalism to Economic Nationalism. Palgrave (2023):
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-34692-7" data-outlook-id="efa3a1bb-b2e1-4199-81fd-829fbc479208" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-34692-7</a></u></span></p>
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