by GDI | Sep 4, 2025 | Comment
The past few years have brought a great deal of social, political, and economic turbulence across much of the world. From intensifying climate breakdown to growing geopolitical uncertainty, GDI academics have been working hard to conceptualise future threats and...
by GDI | Aug 21, 2025 | Comment
On 19th August 2025, we held the first communities of practice in a series focused on the role resilience plays during a turbulent period within the development space. The sessions were held online (taking place at 8am and 2pm BST to accommodate time zones) and we...
by GDI | Aug 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
December 11-12, 2025, University of Manchester, UK. With support from The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute Journal of Development Studies Conference Fund Keynote speakers: Ravi Kanbur (Professor of Economics, Cornell University) and Anandi Mani...
by GDI | Jul 28, 2025 | Comment
by Tanja Bastia, Erika Busse, Verónica Montes, and Andrea Souto Garcia At the 25th IMISCOE conference, the largest migration conference in Europe, recently held in Paris, we (the authors) took the opportunity to meet and discuss our respective research experiences,...
by GDI | Jul 28, 2025 | Comment
by Anuradha Ganapathy, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester “Development” as a concept and field of study is far from being free of its colonial, patriarchal, and hierarchical legacies. In this context, questions of who researches and who is being...
