by Global Development Institute | Jun 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Academics from the Global Development Institute are presenting papers and convening panels at the annual Development Studies Association conference taking place 6-8 July 2022. This year’s conference adopts justice and equity as central normative lenses to explore just...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 20, 2022 | Comment
Maisha Zaman, MSc in International Development: Poverty, Inequality and Development, Global Development Institute Globally, Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is one of the most common terms used to describe issues associated with menstruation in policies and...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the latest episode of the GDI podcast Professor Stefan Dercon talks to Dr Sophie van Huellen. They discuss Stefan’s new book, “Gambling on Development: why some countries win and others lose”, his recent departure from the Foreign, Commonwealth...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 8, 2022 | Comment
Dr Josephine Biglin, Honorary Research Fellow, Global Development Institute and Lecturer in Social Psychology, The University of Salford Dr Josephine Biglin explores a recent workshop on ‘Researching the everyday of transnational citizenship: Arts-based...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 7, 2022 | Comment
Anna Thurlbeck, Postgraduate Researcher, Global Development Institute Taking place on the 5th and 6th of May, this year’s PGR Conference centred around the theme of multidiscipliniarity, chosen to put a spotlight on the extensive breadth of research being undertaken...
by Global Development Institute | May 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
A one day conference on three underexplored areas of migration in the Global South: disability, sexuality and skilled migration. 21st June 2022, 9.30am – 4.30pm. The conference will be held in person at The University of Manchester. Background Covid-19 has brought...
by Global Development Institute | May 25, 2022 | Comment
Based upon a decade of ground-breaking research within the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) research centre, Political Settlements and Development: Theory, Evidence, Implications, has been just been published by Oxford University Press. It provides a...
by Global Development Institute | May 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
GDI’s Resources, Environment, and Development research group have recently organised a series of talks on ‘Red Talks: on the Politics of Resources, Environment and Development’ The first event welcomed Dr Maria Christina Fragkou, an environmental scientist currently...
by Global Development Institute | May 18, 2022 | Comment
Dr Basma Albanna recently gave a lecture at Africa in Science exploring her research into Data-Powered Positive Deviance. In the lecture she introduces the new method that combines traditional (e.g. surveys & interviews) and non-traditional data (e.g. from remote...
by Global Development Institute | May 13, 2022 | Comment
Dr Tom Lavers, Senior Lecturer in Politics & Development, Global Development Institute Download ‘The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers: State Capacity and Political Contestation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia’ Social transfers are...
