Centre for the Study of Globalization, University of Aberdeen
Full name and acronym: Centre for the Study of Globalization, University of Aberdeen
Founding date: 1999
Objectives: the production and dissemination of cross-disciplinary research on globalization and glocalization in multidimensional and long-term historical perspectives.
Current projects: democratization and globalization, the glocalization of football, and the ancient inheritance of the study of global change.
Principal activities: conferences, seminars, linkages with scholars around the world, and others.
Staff numbers: under reconstruction for the coming academic year
Director: Professor Roland Robertson
Funding: current grants include a Leverhulme grant for global coordination of studies of global change and an UK ESRC grant for the study of the glocalization of football in relation to transnational corporations.
Street Address: Department of Sociology, School of Social Science, Wright Building, Aberdeen AB24 3QY, Scotland, UK
tel: + 44 (0) 1224 273429
fax: + 44 (0) 1224 273442
email: kwhite1998@aol.com