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Prof Alexandra Hughes

Alex is the Principal Investigator and oversees the entire SCArFE Project from the host institution of Newcastle University.

Alex is primarily interested in economic geographies. Her areas of focus are: cultural political economy; postcolonial economies; global value chains and production networks; knowledge and economy; rethinking economy; transnational retailers and corporate responsibility; retailer-supplier relationships in the UK and USA; ethical trade and labour in South Africa, Kenya and Pakistan; tackling anti-microbial resistance in food supply chains; regulation and governance; corporate social responsibility and sustainability; the audit economy; learning networks; ethical public procurement; ethical consumption in the global South; qualitative research methods.

She is a member of various editorial boards, including the Journal of Economic Geography, and the RGS-IBG Book Series published by Wiley-Blackwell.