One thing that should never be taken away from you is your education!
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...
GDI at the Development Studies Association Conference 2023
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...
Africa Research Group Conference: 7th Annual Conference
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...
From sea change to tidal wave: Can One World Together sweep away the inequalities in the aid chain that undermine grassroots-oriented civil society organisations and action?
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...
Will minting Messi solve Argentina’s economic crisis?
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...
Diverging diasporas
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...
Transnational lived citizenship and local struggles: Ethiopian migrant communities in Nairobi
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...
In Conversation: Tom Goodfellow + Pritish Behuria
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...