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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

Diversity, immigrant entrepreneurship, and regional development in Spain: An institutional approach.

Wednesday 28 May 2025 - Wednesday 28 May 2025
10:00 AM to 3:30 PM
Durham University Business School, Waterside Building
Marketing concepts with high speed technology point of view

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Supply Chain Research

Friday 30 May 2025 - Friday 30 May 2025
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Durham university Business School The Waterside Building
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Employment effects on socio-politically extreme beliefs: Cross-national evidence from Europe

Wednesday 4 June 2025 - Wednesday 4 June 2025
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Durham University Business School The Waterside Building
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Durham University Business School Doctoral Conference: AI and Digital Technologies in Business

Thursday 5 June 2025 - Friday 6 June 2025
8:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Durham University Business School
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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