Rory Horner

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I am interested in supervising highly-motivated PhD students whose interests broadly, or ideally closely, fit with the following:<br/><br/>Political economy of pharmaceuticals and development - trade, intellectual property rights, industrial development, and public health implications <br/>South-South trade and rising powers<br/>Global value chains and production networks<br/><br/>Current and former PhD students:<br/><br/>Puji Basuki, Geopolitics and upgrading in global value chains: the case of palm oil and nickel in Indonesia (supervised with Khalid Nadvi)<br/><br/>Karrar Karrar, A path to self-sufficiency? Vaccine manufacturing in Africa (supervised with Shamel Azmeh)<br/><br/>Faiq, The multifaceted role of the state in global value chains: The case of electric vehicles in Indonesia (supervised with Shamel Azmeh)<br/><br/>Beletchei Ebia, Traders in global value chains: The case of Togolese female traders and African print textiles (Awarded 2023, supervised with Tanja Bastia and Stephanie Barrientos)<br/><br/>Rachel Alexander, Governance for sustainability in the extended supplier networks of cotton garments (Awarded 2016, supervised with Khalid Nadvi and Stephanie Barrientos)