by Global Development Institute | Aug 29, 2017 | Comment
Dr Helen Underhill, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester In July, I accompanied Operation Florian – volunteers from the UK Fire and Rescue Services and affiliated to UK Fire Aid – to Lebanon as part of their humanitarian response in informal...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 18, 2017 | Comment
Judith Krauss, is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Global Development Institute. She is now Director of Studies for Sustainability. Judith’s PhD used in-depth fieldwork in Europe and Latin America to investigate cocoa sustainability initiatives and the...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 14, 2017 | Comment
In this episode, Prof Diana Mitlin, Managing Director of GDI, and Dr Mercedes González de la Rocha, an anthropologist and sociologist at CIESAS and an alumna of the University of Manchester, discuss inequalities, clustered disadvantages, urban social isolation, why Dr...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 10, 2017 | Comment
Phil Woodhouse is Professor of Environment and Development at GDI, and Director of the Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Doctoral College, and a Managing Editor of the Journal of Development Studies. He told us about his research, his science background, and of course GDI’s...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 2, 2017 | Comment
Over the last few months our researchers have published a number of books, articles and conference papers. Twenty First Century Globalisation and Development Stephanie Barrientos in Development and Change, Multi-scalar Labour Agency in Global Production Networks:...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 27, 2017 | Comment
By Geetika Dang, Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha One in three women throughout the world experience physical and/or sexual violence from a partner. In South Asia, the figure rises to nearly 40%. In India, the incidence of serious crimes against women, including...
