By Heiner Janus In his Global Development seminar last week, Professor David Hulme asked: Are the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) the world’s biggest promise or just another development fad? The short answer: a bit of both. Content-wise the 2030...
By Dr Ralitza Dimova Food security in Africa is challenged in three key ways – by competition between food and cash crops, by constrained access to productive resources, and through social norms. This is the upshot of my 10-minute film on agriculture in Ivory...
The next lecture in our Global Development Seminar Series takes place on Wednesday November 25, with Professor David Hulme. David’s seminar is titled From MDGs to SDGS: Transformation or Evolution? The lecture will run 4.30pm-6pm in Cordingley Lecture...
Royal Holloway Professor Sandra Halperin gave a compelling lecture last week at our Global Development Seminar Series. Drawing on her most recent book, Re-Envisioning Global Development: a Horizontal Perspective, Sandra critiqued Eurocentric tellings of development...
By Nicola Banks One of the consistent battles I face as a researcher is the feeling of uselessness I experience in each and every interview I conduct. This is not to say that I believe our research is ‘useless’ – anything but. Research must continue to play an...
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