The PhD Programme in Global Studies (PDEG) brings together cutting edge research on global issues within an interdisciplinary framework that engages with globalisation both historically and in the present. Through courses, tutorial supervision, public events, lectures, conferences and publications, the programme—working in conjunction with the PhD Programmes in Political Science and International Relations, as well as the PhD in Human Ecology—promotes a broader understanding of global interdependencies and encourages new ways of rethinking them. The programme seminars shall be delivered in English.

Under the pressures of climatic and biological change, globalisation may be regarded as the most significant process shaping the contemporary world. This is reflected in the transnational movement of people, goods and technologies, the circulation of information and cultural patterns, social relations and networks, political and economic governance, the regionalisation of conflict, and the threats posed by organised crime and terrorism on a global scale.

The PhD in Global Studies is founded on the articulation of central themes of globalisation with diverse disciplinary methods, with the aim of producing an integrated understanding of global processes. It also examines how such processes affect local, national and transnational contexts in different ways, and how they trigger varied responses. The programme affirms that any serious analysis of globalisation must remain attentive to human, social, civic and political rights.

The programme strengthens the doctoral offer at NOVA FCSH by providing a dedicated space for the study and analysis of global processes.