by Global Development Institute | Jul 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Juno Ellison, Wellcome EDI Research Placement intern The past few months have witnessed a resurfacing of high-profile xenophobic migration agendas in the UK reminiscent of the Brexit campaign through the Government’s Rwanda plan, mirroring similar policies from...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 11, 2022 | Comment
Gilead Teri, PhD researcher, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester On June 21st 2022, while discussing the newly tabled budget draft a member of Tanzanian Parliament raised an underreporting discrepancy between the amount that the Minister of Finance...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dr Nicola Banks, Senior Lecturer in International Development: Urban Development and Global Urbanism Ten years ago (where has time gone?!), myself and David Hulme’s work went as ‘viral’ as an academic piece of work can go when it was picked up and lambasted by Duncan...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Adriana Kemp, Professor of Sociology, Tel-Aviv University and Tanja Müller, Professor of Political Sociology, Global Development Institute If citizenship is about shaping cities and urban spaces at the same time shape migrants, the question becomes how the different...
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...
