WHO WE ARE

The Global South Network (GSN) is a forum for research students, scholars, practitioners, and civil society organisations from different regions of the Global South including but not limited to Africa, Latin America, Asia, East Europe, and Middle East. UK based Academics and researchers (including postgraduate researchers) focusing on the issues of the Global South run GSN.

Dr Nauman Reayat, Convener GSN founded GSN on 17 March 2023. Within seven months of its establishment, Dr Nauman Reayat, Convener GSN conducted 24 events, involved 40 postgraduates researchers from, or focusing on, the Global South, engaged with 7 constitutional courts of different Global South countries, , received 2 internal fundings,  inspired clusters across the schools (see below), built 3 international partnerships, Students and staff from 10 disciplines, 4 CSOs, 28 universities, and 15 countries participated in these activities. Convener and Co-Conveners GSN secured 2 book contracts. Co-Conveners Rhona Smith developed 1 large scale grant ready for the submission where Dr Nauman Reayat, Convener GSN is the co-applicant.

Dr Nauman Reayat, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Leicester is the convener of GSN. Prof Hakeem Yusuf, School of Law, University of Derby and Prof Rhona Smith, School of Law, Newcastle University are co-conveners.

WHAT WE DO

SHORT TERM

• To facilitate knowledge exchange among academics, practitioners, students, journalists, and policy-makers.
• To publish an edited collections or special edition on interdisciplinary issues of the Global South (see below).
• To organise research activities on interdisciplinary issues of the Global South. These issues may include but may not be limited to including but not limited to environmental change, inequality, political instability, the politics of human rights and wrongs, judicial politics, dispute resolution, extremism and populism, and constitutional identity
• Apply for internal and external funding including but not limited to ESRC IAA event / networking fund, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) networking scheme, and/or British Academy (BA)/Leverhulme Small Research Grants to support and promote activities of the network.

LONG-TERM

• To influence policy-making in the Global South by promoting international collaboration amongst and between civil society organisations (CSOs), higher education institutes, media, and policy-makers in the Global South.
• To diversify research culture in universities in the Global North and strengthen research culture in the Global South by promoting collaboration amongst and between higher education institutes and non-academic groups in the Global South and the Global North.
• To increase the recruitment of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from, or focusing on, interdisciplinary issues of the Global South.