by GDI | Aug 12, 2025 | Comment
Remains of the Pampa Lina saltpetre offices (foreground) beside modern mining waste (background). Photo: Esteban Valle Riestra By Esteban Valle Riestra, Postgraduate researcher, GDI The Atacama Desert in Chile may appear to be a barren and unproductive land, where...
by GDI | Aug 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
December 11-12, 2025, University of Manchester, UK. With support from The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute Journal of Development Studies Conference Fund Keynote speakers: Ravi Kanbur (Professor of Economics, Cornell University) and Anandi Mani...
by GDI | Aug 6, 2025 | Comment
An Early Career-led and focused workshop from the PhD ‘Political Economy of Development’ working group. Funded by the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the Development Studies Association (DSA), linked to the joint...
by GDI | Jul 28, 2025 | Comment
by Tanja Bastia, Erika Busse, Verónica Montes, and Andrea Souto Garcia At the 25th IMISCOE conference, the largest migration conference in Europe, recently held in Paris, we (the authors) took the opportunity to meet and discuss our respective research experiences,...
by GDI | Jul 28, 2025 | Comment
by Anuradha Ganapathy, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester “Development” as a concept and field of study is far from being free of its colonial, patriarchal, and hierarchical legacies. In this context, questions of who researches and who is being...
by GDI | Jul 28, 2025 | Comment
This year, GDI’s Natalie Cunningham (Senior Lecturer in Leadership for Development) will be running a series of communities of practice (CoPs) designed to support development practitioners (and those interested in pursuing a career in development) in building...
by GDI | Jul 23, 2025 | Comment
A lecture by Tom Gillespie at Cornell AAP explores the scale of the 21st-century urban housing challenge. Abstract The 21st-century urban housing challenge has prompted state actors in both the Global North and South to adopt increasingly interventionist approaches to...
by GDI | Jul 22, 2025 | Comment
By Rose Pritchard and Timothy Foster The Just Earth Observation for Conservation (JEOC) project explores how Earth Observation technologies and data are changing biodiversity conservation and what this means for people living in or near protected areas. We work in...
by GDI | Jul 14, 2025 | Comment
By Rabiatu Adamu Saleh, Master’s student in Global Development (Environment and Climate Change) African cities are dealing with the dual issues of climate change and urban heat islands (UHI), leading to increased interest in innovative nature-based solutions...
by GDI | Jul 7, 2025 | Comment
By Dr Helen Underhill How does meaningful impact emerge over time in global conservation and development research? A recent discussion among researchers and practitioners within GDI highlighted just how complex, relational, and often invisible this work can be....
