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OSGA Research Projects

In a dynamic research environment, OSGA explores cultural, economic, political, and social questions through the study of world regions in local, global, and comparative contexts. Employing qualitative, quantitative, and computational methods with a strong ethical foundation, our interdisciplinary research aims to impact and benefit the economy, society, culture, and public policy beyond academia. 

All OSGA projects

Understanding Territory and Sovereignty in Wartime Ukraine: A Longitudinal Cross-Survey Analysis (2024)

Everyday Activism and Zero Waste Living in China

Strange Bedfellows: Intra-elite rivalries and populist-elite bargaining in tutelary hybrid regimes

Network Plus Shifting Global Polarities: Russia, China, and Eurasia in Transition

Infrastructures of Anti-Colonial Revolt: Mass Politics in the 1919 Egyptian Revolution

Information Threats to Democratic Societies of UK and Taiwan: Inter-regional and Interdisciplinary Approaches

A Discursive and Digital Terrain: Islamophobia and the International Far Right

Radio Revolution in Southern Africa, 1940-1990

New strategies of survival in Venezuela: migration, and alternative remittances

Ghana's gold mining industry and communities - cooperation with Ghana Gold Expo

Arab Public Data Initiative

UK-Japan Research Consortium (Middle East Phase III - 2022)

Further projects

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Research Culture

Contributing to shape OSGA's research culture 
 
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Early Career Research Fellowships

The OSGA Research Strategy is committed to attracting talented early career researchers (ECRs) and fostering a dynamic, supportive research environment.
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Africa Oxford Initiative

The AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme enhances academic mobility and network building. The programme supports leading African scholars and researchers working in any academic discipline to focus on a project they choose while in Oxford. A number of the AfOx fellowships are offered in collaboration with key partners at the University of Oxford, including the African Studies Centre at OSGA.