by Global Development Institute | Oct 13, 2016 | Comment
By Judith Krauss, post-doctoral associate at the Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Doctoral College In the biggest-ever event on campus, The University of Manchester ran the ‘Sustainability Challenge’ for its 8,200 first-year undergraduates, encouraging students to realise...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 16, 2016 | Comment
Yesterday the Global Development Institute’s David Hulme represented a research project run jointly by GDI and SIID (the University of Sheffield), at the Small Charities International Development Debate in the House of Lords. The research project is seeking to map and...
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 22, 2015 | Comment, Events, Policy
The second seminar in our Global Development series took place yesterday, with Professor Daniel Brockington. Dan spoke on the paradoxes of celebrity advocacy in international development in the UK, and their consequences both for development and democratic processes....
by developmentatmanchester | Sep 1, 2014 | Comment, Research Findings
By Dan Brockington One of the most intriguing facts about celebrity is how little we know about how the general public respond to it. And, when you do try and find out, then one of the most intriguing things is how little notice many people appear to take of it. Yes,...
by developmentatmanchester | Aug 8, 2014 | Comment, Research Findings
By Daniel Brockington Celebrity is a normal part of development business these days. While we can all point to famous development advocates, I suspect that most of us do not know the extent to which development NGOs in Britain, and indeed the whole NGO sector, has...
