THE GLOBAL SOUTH NETWORK (GSN)

EMPOWERING PEOPLE FROM, OR FOCUSING ON, THE GLOBAL SOUTH

THROUGH KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND SHARING GOOD PRACTICES ON THE ISSUES OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH

ABOUT US

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.

Convener/Founder GSN Dr Nauman Reayat founded GSN on 17 March 2023 (funded under ESRC Impact Acceleration Account 2019: Leicester (ES/T501967/1). Ever since then he organised 41 events, involved 71 postgraduates researchers from, or focusing on, the Global South, engaged with 7 constitutional courts of different Global South countries, received 4 internal funding from ESRC International Impact Acceleration Account, and built 3 international partnerships. Students and staff from 13 disciplines, 4 CSOs, 28 universities, and 15 countries participated in these activities. Conveners GSN secured 2 book contracts. See the founder’s introduction here and the founder’s message here.

  • Guest Lecture by Justice Steven Arnold Majiedt, Constitutional Court of South Africa
  • National Judicial Conference Pakistan 2018, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Socio Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2022
  • Nigeria: International Conference Law Society and Academia in the Global South, 2023, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
  • International Conference on Judicial Independence in Africa 2023
  • Founder Global South Network, Dr Nauman Reayat presenting on judicial leaders in uncertain times
    Founder Global South Network, Dr Nauman Reayat presenting on judicial leaders in uncertain times (6 March 2024, University of Leicester)
  • Prof Faizan Mustafa, Vice Chancellor Chankya University, Patna, India presenting on Diversity Management in India on 6 March 2023 at JGR, Field Johnson Building, University of Leicester.
    Prof Faizan Mustafa, Vice Chancellor Chankya University, Patna, India presenting on Diversity Management in India on 6 March 2023, University of Leicester.
  • Founder Global South Network, Dr Nauman Reayat presenting on judicial leaders in uncertain times
    Founder Global South Network, Dr Nauman Reayat presenting on judicial leaders in uncertain times (6 March, 2024, University of Leicester)

SHORT TERM OBJECTIVES

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.

To organise research activities on interdisciplinary issues of the Global South.

To 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 OBJECTIVES

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.

  • International Workshop on Rethinking Research and Teaching on International Law: Challenges and Prospects in collaboration with The International Law Association – Nigeria Branch (Teaching of International Law & SDGs Committee) organised by the Global South Network on 22 November 2023.
  • International Workshop on Rethinking Research and Teaching on International Law: Challenges and Prospects organised by the Global South Network in collaboration with The International Law Association – Nigeria Branch (Teaching of International Law & SDGs Committee) on 22 November 2023.
  • International Workshop on Rethinking Research and Teaching on International Law: Challenges and Prospects organised by the Global South Network in collaboration with The International Law Association – Nigeria Branch (Teaching of International Law & SDGs Committee) on 22 November 2023.
  • International Workshop on Rethinking Research and Teaching on International Law: Challenges and Prospects organised by the Global South Network in collaboration with The International Law Association – Nigeria Branch (Teaching of International Law & SDGs Committee) on 22 November 2023.
  • International Workshop on Rethinking Research and Teaching on International Law: Challenges and Prospects organised by the Global South Network in collaboration with The International Law Association – Nigeria Branch (Teaching of International Law & SDGs Committee) on 22 November 2023.
  • International Workshop on Rethinking Research and Teaching on International Law: Challenges and Prospects organised by the Global South Network in collaboration with The International Law Association – Nigeria Branch (Teaching of International Law & SDGs Committee) on 22 November 2023.
  • International Workshop on Rethinking Research and Teaching on International Law: Challenges and Prospects organised by the Global South Network in collaboration with The International Law Association – Nigeria Branch (Teaching of International Law & SDGs Committee) on 22 November 2023.
  • International Workshop on Rethinking Research and Teaching on International Law: Challenges and Prospects organised by the Global South Network in collaboration with The International Law Association – Nigeria Branch (Teaching of International Law & SDGs Committee) on 22 November 2023.

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