by GDI | Feb 5, 2025 | Comment
By Epiphania Kimaro Doing my PhD at the Global Development Institute gave me invaluable skills and opportunities, including the post-PhD research dissemination fund award. This award was an opportunity but also a challenge to share my research findings with...
by GDI | Jan 31, 2025 | Comment
By Richard Heeks When it comes to tackling real-world problems, researchers often find themselves choosing between two big philosophical approaches: positivism, which focuses on hard facts and objectivity, and constructivism, which highlights how people shape their...
by GDI | Jan 29, 2025 | Comment
In late 2024, community reporters from the Social Homes for Manchester coalition began filming with production company On Our Radar to create a documentary exposing the crisis in social rent housing in the city of Manchester and highlighting their role establishing a...
by GDI | Jan 23, 2025 | Comment
We are delighted that the British Academy International Fellowships 2025 are now open for applications. The University of Manchester is especially keen to sponsor applicants from the global South. The programme provides support for outstanding early career...
by GDI | Dec 18, 2024 | Comment
By Diana Mitlin A recent conference on African Urbanism has provided a useful space for me to reflect on what the African experience has brought to my work and that of my colleagues. This has included academic scholarship, professional and policy engagement and...