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28
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1381
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Overview

Nicola Phillips is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences and arts and humanities, with a focus on geography, planning and development, archeology, history, pharmacy, and education.

Their scholarly work centers around several main topics, including:

  • Religious Tourism and Spaces
  • Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
  • Historical Studies of British Isles
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Nicola Phillips has contributed to a range of academic publications, including journal articles and a book. Notable recent papers authored by the scientist are:

  • "Immersive sacred heritage: enchantment through authenticity at Glastonbury Abbey" (2025) published in the International Journal of Heritage Studies
  • "Infants' attraction to infant vocalizations - A catalyst for infant development" (2025) published in Infant Behavior and Development
  • "Exploring infant talker bias: Insights from remote speech perception testing" (2024) published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Nicola Phillips has also authored a book titled Uncertainty and Its Discontents, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

The scientist frequently publishes in noted venues such as:

  • International Journal of Heritage Studies
  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

In addition to solo work, Nicola Phillips collaborates with various researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Linda Polka
  • Samin Moradi
  • Jonathan Kirshner
  • Evelyn Goh
  • Christian Reus-Smit Nicholas

Best Publications

  • New Regionalism in the Global Political Economy: Theories and Cases

    Shaun Breslin;Christopher W. Hughes;Nicola Phillips;Ben Rosamond

  • Informality, global production networks and the dynamics of ‘adverse incorporation’

    Nicola Phillips

  • Outsourcing Governance: States and the Politics of a ‘Global Value Chain World’

    Frederick W. Mayer;Nicola Phillips

  • Unfree labour and adverse incorporation in the global economy: comparative perspectives on Brazil and India

    Nicola Phillips

  • Dynamics of Unfree Labour in the Contemporary Global Economy

    Stephanie Barrientos;Uma Kothari;Nicola Phillips

  • Women in Business, 1700-1850

    Nicola Phillips

  • The Southern Cone Model: The Political Economy of Regional Capitalist Development in Latin America

    Nicola Phillips

  • Power and inequality in the global political economy

    Nicola Jane Phillips

  • Hemispheric integration and subregionalism in the Americas

    Nicola Phillips

  • The rise and fall of open regionalism? Comparative reflections on regional governance in the Southern Cone of Latin America

    Nicola Phillips

  • Regionalist governance in the new political economy of development: 'relaunching' the Mercosur

    Nicola Phillips

  • Migration as development strategy? The new political economy of dispossession and inequality in the Americas

    Nicola Phillips

  • U.S. Power and the Politics of Economic Governance in the Americas

    Nicola Phillips

  • Challenging triumphalism and convergence: the limits of global liberalization in Asia and Latin America

    Richard Higgott;Nicola Phillips

  • Globalizing International Political Economy

    Nicola Phillips

  • International political economy: Debating the past, present and future

    Nicola Phillips;Catherine Elizabeth Weaver

  • The Political Economy of State Governance in Global Production Networks: Change, Crisis and Contestation in the South African Fruit Sector

    Matthew Alford;Nicola Jane Phillips

  • Global Production Networks, Chronic Poverty and ‘Slave Labour’ in Brazil

    Nicola Phillips;Leonardo Sakamoto

  • The Governance of Forced Labour in the Global Economy

    Nicola Phillips;Fabiola Mieres

  • States and the Political Economy of Unfree Labour

    Genevieve LeBaron;Nicola Phillips

  • The political economy of governance in a ‘global value chain world’

    Frederick W. Mayer;Nicola Phillips;Anne C. Posthuma

  • Labour in Global Production: Reflections on Coxian Insights in a World of Global Value Chains

    Nicola Phillips

  • Mapping and measuring the effectiveness of labour-related disclosure requirements for global supply chains

    Nicola Phillips;Genevieve LeBaron;Sara Wallin

  • The slow death of pluralism

    Nicola Phillips

  • Handbook of the international political economy of governance

    Anthony Payne;Nicola Phillips

  • The social foundations of global production networks: towards a global political economy of child labour

    Nicola Jane Phillips;Resmi Bhaskaran;Dev Nathan;C. Upendranadh

  • Home-Based Child Labour in Delhi’s Garment Sector: Contemporary Forms of Unfree Labour in Global Production

    Resmi Bhaskaran;Dev Nathan;Nicola Phillips;C. Upendranadh

  • Ideologies of Globalization: Contending Visions of a New World Order Mark Rupert

    Nicola Phillips

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun Breslin
Shaun Breslin University of Warwick
Ben Rosamond
Ben Rosamond University of Edinburgh
Stephanie Barrientos
Stephanie Barrientos University of Manchester
Richard Higgott
Richard Higgott Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Uma Kothari
Uma Kothari University of Manchester

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