by Global Development Institute | May 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Nick Jepson and Seth Schindler, in collaboration with Nana de Graaff and Imogen T. Liu, are organising a workshop entitled “Europe in US-China rivalry: The implications of great power politics”. The workshop will take place on 9-10 October 2023 in Amsterdam and there...
by Global Development Institute | May 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Malavika Krishnan Malavika was recently a nominee in the University of Manchester’s Social Responsibility Making a Difference Awards. She was highly commended in the category of Outstanding Social Innovation, for her work around education in India. She also recieved...
by Global Development Institute | May 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Academics from the Global Development Institute are presenting papers and convening panels at the annual Development Studies Association conference, which is taking place at the University of Reading 28-30th June 2023. This year’s conference is hybrid, meaning a...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Mount Kenya University Rwanda will host an international conference from 28th to 30th August 2023 in conjunction with the African Research Group (ARG) of Nottingham University in the U.K. The conference will be held at Mount Kenya University Rwanda, Kicukiro, KK 554...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Here GDI’s Nicola Banks and her co-Founder and CEO, Chibwe Masabo Henry, talk about how recent momentum in the sector has led them to build on the University of Manchester’s long-standing research on development NGOs and civil society organisations to launch One World...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 14, 2023 | Comment, Research Findings
By Miguel Kanai, University of Sheffield, Seth Schindler, Global Development Institute and Javier Díaz Bay, Universidad Nacional de Luján Argentina won its third FIFA World Cup last December in Qatar. This major sporting achievement fulfilled team captain Lionel...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 10, 2023 | Comment
Oliver Bakewell, Reader in Migration Studies, Global Development Institute For over twenty years, African diasporas have been increasingly recognised as important actors in development across the continent. A question that often remains unasked is: who is part of this...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 6, 2023 | Comment
Tanja Müller, Professor of Political Sociology, Global Development Institute Reflections from the second emerging findings workshop of the ESRC-funded project: Transnational lived citizenship: practices of citizenship as political belonging among emerging diasporas...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
In this episode of the GDI podcast, Tom Goodfellow and Pritish Behuria discuss Tom’s career and his new book, Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa. Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 22, 2023 | Comment
Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over two hundred in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe, a new book edited by Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia and Sara Bonfanti,...
