Global Policy: Next Generation is an annual issue from Global Policy. GPNG is a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that provides a platform for PhD students and early career researchers to publish the next generation of groundbreaking research in global policymaking. We publish peer-reviewed work on par with the most rigorous of academic journals whilst also broadening horizons in terms of both content and authorship.
We publish work that pushes beyond the predominant Western-centric viewpoints in global policy research and diversifies the scope of research to include both macro and micro levels of global policy challenges. In doing so, GPNG creates an opportunity for early-career researchers around the globe to meet this need for innovative and transformational research ideas that have both theoretical value and practical impact on policymakers.
As a part of Global Policy, over the last four years, GPNG benefited from the guidance of the late David Held and continues to work closely with Eva-Maria Nag, the General Editor and Founding Executive Editor of Global Policy. Building upon this wealth of experience, GPNG recently published its third edition with Wiley-Blackwell in 2022.
As an editorial team, we seek to bring to the fore ideas and research that are at the leading edge of policy work regarding issues that are multilevel – local and global, and micro and macro in size and impact. Importantly, we place no disciplinary restrictions upon the content of submissions other than their relevance and influence on the current current and future policy issues worldwide.
Beyond the excellent work we publish, the GPNG project, has, and will continue to be a platform for supporting, guiding and mentoring ECRs through the academic publication process, embodying a ‘build as we climb’ ethos. We provide detailed feedback to authors at every stage of the review process and our recent case study article in Learned Publishing documents how we as a team aim to advance ECR work https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1474
As a result, Global Policy: Next Generation goes beyond the remit of producing a peer-reviewed academic journal. It aims to establish a platform for early-career researchers to engage with the wider community of both academia and policymaking by promoting their research through a variety of media. GPNG offers early-career researchers the opportunity to publish opinion pieces on their current research, areas of expertise, or issues that they feel need further analysis and exploration. This is complemented by podcast interviews with academics at all stages of the research process, from those just starting projects to those presenting final products and published works, all sharing ideas and pushing boundaries in terms of how we engage with academic research. These initiatives serve to democratize the research process away from traditional voices, as well as producing materials that are more accessible than traditional academic work and can be used to great effect within the classroom and outside the Ivory Tower.
GPNG is a multidisciplinary platform for linking early-career researchers with other academic researchers and policymakers seeking new ideas and avenues of research that will inform debates in both sectors. Changing the world is at the heart of our mission. If you would like to share your research ideas through an opinion piece or podcast interview, engage in a debate on contemporary events through a comment article, or wish to submit a research article please do get in touch with the editorial team.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Global Policy: Next Generation Editorial Team
Aasim
Aasim Khan is Asst. Professor, Department of Global Studies at KFUPM, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and a political scientist studying how technological change impacts governance institutions and society at large. His most recent work has focussed on the intersections between the development of AI and the political economy of entrepreneurship in South Asia. He received his Ph.D. in Politics and Public Policy from the King’s India Institute, King’s College London (2018), and has a masters in global media from the University of London.
Natalie
Natalie Braun is based at York University in Toronto, Canada, where she is pursuing her PhD in political science. Rooted in geopolitical economy, her research investigates current shifts in the world order – the decline of the ILO, the rise of the “new” state capitalism, deteriorating US-China relations, and emerging South-South cooperation – and situates these changes within the broader development of imperialist and anti-imperialist relations of capitalism.
Jess
Jessica Eastland-Underwood is a Career Development Fellow in International Political Economy at Durham University. Her research agenda is focussed on the intersection of everyday political thought, economic ideas and racism. Her work has been published in New Political Economy and Journal of Political Ideologies. She completed her PhD at the University of Warwick looking at different conceptions of ‘the economy’ between Black Lives Matter and anti-lockdown protesters during Covid-19. She also received her MA from the University of Warwick.
Rob
Rob Hanson is an associate researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics, and Society at the University of Minho. His research focuses on the role of agency, identity, and normativity in policymaking and implementation. He has published on a broad range of policy related topics including: sustainability financing in the Global South, the philosophical viability of environmental pragmatism, and the role of culture in matters of public health. He completed his Ph.D. at Durham with a thesis on the politics of world heritage, advocating discursive, bottom-up approaches to policymaking to challenge the perseverance of Eurocentric ideals and neo-colonial power structures.
