GLOCAL launched in 2017 with its first intake of students, who graduated at the University of Glasgow on 4th December 2019.
The first graduates set up the GLOCAL Alumni Association. Read all about it below.
The GLOCAL Alumni Association (GAA) was launched at the University of Glasgow’s Queen Margaret Union on 3rd December 2019 as a collective initiative by the first GLOCAL graduates. The main goal of the Association is to maintain connections between the Masters programme and its graduates, thus strengthening a GLOCAL community through professional networking and academic support.
The GAA is organised in teams with a management board, a communication group and a chief editor of the GAA newsletter. With this quarterly communication, topics of different career paths insights helped by interviews are offered, as well as updates of the GLOCAL community.
The GAA has also built a mentoring programme which gives space for graduates to share their experience with current students while also fostering the interactions within the network. These initiatives are intended to involve alumni and maintain connections with the programme for the benefit of alumni, current students, and the programme as a whole.
The GLOCAL Alumni Association works as a collective initiative, that benefits all GLOCALs and welcomes participation and collaboration within and between cohorts.
You can subscribe to the GLOCAL Alumni Association Newsletter here.
In its first Newsletter, the GLOCAL Alumni Association conducted interviews with some of the first GLOCAL graduates who shared their experiences of post-GLOCAL life, reflected on their time during the 2-year Masters programme and offered sage advice for fellow alumni. Click the link to read all about it. (Interviews conducted December 2019)
GAA Newsletter 1 – graduate interviews
The GAA newsletter (dated October 2020) contains interviews with 3 inspiring women entrepreneurs – Kanika in Cambodia, Liliana in Colombia, and (with her thesis hot off the press) GLOCAL 2 Mashiyat in Barcelona.
Read their interviews here: GLOCAL Alumni Association – GLOCAL Careers interviews
In September 2020 the GLOCAL Alumni Association (GAA) organised a GLOCAL Alumni Survey summarising current alumni locations as well as their professional activity. Have a read through their visual below.
Please note, the survey data was collected from the 1st cohort alumni.
The 2022 Alumni survey asked GLOCAL Graduates where they’re now based, what sector they’re working in or where they’re continuing their studies, how long it took them to find work after graduation, and what key skills they feel they gained from the programme. You can learn more about the results here and here.
After graduating, a number of GLOCAL alumni have gone on to study a Ph.D at institutions around the world. You can find out more about our alumni who are Ph.D candidates, or who have achieved their Ph.D, below.
Shima Trisna
GLOCAL Track A (2017-19)
Ph.D in Economic Geography and Spatial Economics at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome
Kondwani Happy Ngoma
GLOCAL Track B (2017-19)
Ph.D in Economic History at University of Gothenburg
Shreya Roy Choudhury
GLOCAL Track B (2017-19)
Ph.D in Business and Management at University of Manchester
Alice Demattos Guimarães
GLOCAL Track A (2018-20)
Ph.D in Cultural Economics, with a focus on cultural-creative crowdfunding, at Western Norway University of Applied Science, Bergen
Alice is completing her Ph.D as part of the programme “Responsible Innovation and Regional Development“.
Jelena Beocanin
GLOCAL Track A (2018-20)
Ph.D in Popular Culture Studies and Cultural History at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Riyoko Shibe
GLOCAL Track B (2018-20)
Ph.D in Economic and Social History at University of Glasgow
Tynke Schepers
GLOCAL Track B (2019-21)
Ph.D in Public Administration at University of Tilberg
Further details of Tynke’s project and the project consortium can be found here.
Nuria Peregrín Fernández
GLOCAL Track A (2021-23)
Ph.D in Postcolonial Studies and Cultural History at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tabassum Islam
GLOCAL Track A (2021-23)
Ph.D in Cinematic Arts at Ulster University
Tabassum’s research focuses on both the barriers and antecedents to the participation of British South Asians in the British film industry.
Ella Stensdotter
GLOCAL Track B (2021-23)
Ph.D in Business History at Umeå University
Thaisa Cäsar
GLOCAL Track F (2021-23)
Ph.D in Political Science and Economic History at Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, and University of Heidelberg
Thaisa’s Ph.D focuses on the history of the German Finance Ministry in the context of the consolidation of public finance, in the 1970s-80s.
Chau Cong Anh Nguyen
GLOCAL Track G (2021-23)
Ph.D in Human Geography at University of St. Andrews
Israt Jahan
GLOCAL Track B (2022-24)
Ph.D in Consumer Science at University of Tennessee
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