by GDI | May 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
by Dilek Celebi, Honorary Research Fellow Hamid was not asking for sympathy. He was demanding attention for his people. Most of the world chose the easier option. He is gone now. And what makes that loss unbearable is not only grief—it is the specific anger of...
by GDI | Apr 22, 2026 | Comment
Featured image: Visit to local entrepreneur Charles Ashimwe’s fruit tree and vegetable plantation Between the 21st of March and the 3rd of April 2026, the University of Manchester took Development Studies master’s students on its annual field trip to Rwanda. Rwanda,...
by GDI | Apr 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
by Mariana C. Hernández-Montilla Here I am, once again in Kigali, looking into education and health in Rwanda. People joke that I must be an expert in Rwanda fieldwork because this is my third time coming as a Teaching Assistant. But it is curious how quickly I forget...
by GDI | Mar 31, 2026 | Comment
To mark the publication of Professor Uma Kothari’s new co-authored book, Stories of Place: Geographies of Meaning, Memory and Connection, we interviewed Uma about the story behind the book and the relationship between stories and the places from which they emerge. In...
by GDI | Mar 24, 2026 | Comment
by Professor Nicola Banks Yesterday I was sad to read of even further declines in UK giving over the past year. Today I am furious to hear what UK aid cuts will look like in practice. And if you’re following global development headlines, you might feel the same way....
