Professor Bina Agarwal Wins Prestigious Kenneth Boulding Award
Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute, was recently honoured with the 2023 Kenneth Boulding Award for her contributions to the field of ecological economics. This prestigious award commemorates the work of...
PhD studentship on Sustainable Forest Transitions
We are delighted to share a fully funded PhD studentship on the social and environmental outcomes of reforestation processes based on the Sustainable Forest Transitions research project. Deadline: 12 February 2024 Midnight (GMT) Interviews: 22 February 2024...
Critiquing established migration studies frameworks – Interview with Oliver Bakewell
The following extract is taken from an interview with GDI’s Reader in Migration Studies, Dr Oliver Bakewell, in the recently published Handbook on Forced Migration. Below, Oliver responds to a question about the risks we run when aligning research agendas on mobility...
From firefighting to social justice: One World Together’s role in strengthening citizen-led movements
GDI’s Nicola Banks reflects on an event co-hosted with One World Together and two of their partners, the brilliant Community Savers in Manchester and the North-West and Muungano wa Wanavijiji in Kenya. Multiple crises are exacerbating pressures on low-income...
Simon and Hallsworth Early Career Fellowships – open for applications!
We are delighted that the Simon and Hallsworth Fellowship are now open for applications. The Global Development Institute has a strong track record in these fellowships, and we are keen to support applicants for this year’s awards. We are especially eager to support...
Remembering Professor Saleemul Huq
Diana Mitlin and David Hulme It is with the deepest sadness that friends and colleagues of Professor Saleemul Huq OBE at the Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester mark his passing away on 28 October. Saleemul was an outstanding scientist (one of...
Podcast: Unpacking the ‘Developing’ Country Classification
Catch up with our recent GDI Lecture from Deborah Barros Leal Farias, who discusses Unpacking the Developing Country Classification. You can watch or listen to Deborah’s lecture below. The division of the world into ‘developing’ and ‘developed’ countries has...
13 Principles for Digital-Transformation-for-Development Research and Consulting
Richard Heeks, Bookie Ezeomah, Gianluca Iazzolino, Aarti Krishnan, Rose Pritchard, Jaco Renken & Qingna Zhou What good-practice principles can be drawn from the literature on digital-transformation-for-development (DX4D)? “Digital transformation” has become...