by developmentatmanchester | Oct 30, 2015 | Comment, Events, Research Findings
Semester 1 is well underway, and the first two lectures in our Global Development Seminar Series have been excellent. On 14 October we heard from IDS Director Melissa Leach on Equality, Sustainability and Security: Towards Transformations in Global Development...
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 29, 2015 | Research Findings
Kojo Asante is currently completing a PhD focussed on oil governance in Ghana, and the politics of hydrocarbons alongside our ESID research team. Find out more about Kojo’s background and current work now via this Q&A for the Effective States website. Share...
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 27, 2015 | Comment
By Robert Watt, PhD researcher, SEED Surveys show that the British public is wrong about nearly everything. One more topic should be added to this list of falsehood: celebrity. Just as we vastly overestimate the level of unemployment, the number of immigrants and the...
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 26, 2015 | Events
Professor David Hulme will be speaking on addressing global inequalities at the first Manchester Informatics seminar for 2015 on Monday 30 November. Featuring an exciting line-up of keynote speakers, this series is themed around the university’s five research...
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....
