Inflation: how financial speculation is making the global food price crisis worse
Sophie van Huellen, Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester UK households, like those in many other countries, are struggling to make ends meet. More than half of households have only £2.66 per week left after paying for bills and essentials,...
‘One nation in two countries’ and anything in between: Transnational lived citizenship and the complex answers to the question ‘where do I belong?’
Tanja Müller, Professor of Political Sociology, Global Development Institute Reflections from the first emerging findings workshop of the ESRC-funded project: Transnational lived citizenship: practices of citizenship as political belonging among emerging diasporas in...
Global Development Institute Merit Awards
The Global Development Institute Merit Awards provide three full scholarships for academically excellent professionals studying a GDI campus-based master’s course commencing in September 2023. The scholarship covers tuition fees, living expenses, flights to the UK,...
In Conversation: Amani Abou-Zeid
In the latest Global Development Institute podcast Amani Abou-Zeid, African Union Commissioner in charge of infrastructure, energy and ICT, talks to Seth Schindler about energy security and infrastructural development in Africa. Ahead of COP27 in Egypt, they reflect...
Call for papers: The Politics of Development Studies Conference
DSA Politics and Political Economy Study Group Sponsored by the Journal of Development Studies Conference fund and The Development Studies Association Organised by Pritish Behuria (Manchester) and Tom Goodfellow (Sheffield) Development studies – as a field – has been...
GDI Lecture Series: FutureDAMS
Following the completion of the interdisciplinary FutureDAMS project in early 2022, this lecture delivered by the project leads reflects on what they have learned through their research, capacity development and policy engagement over the last four and a half years....
In Conversation: Basma Albanna and Richard Heeks
Development studies often focuses on the negative: constraints, challenges, negative impacts, etc. But what if we could use new digital datasets to identify positive deviants: outlier individuals, households, districts and others that outperform their peers in...
GDI Lecture Series – Autumn 22
The GDI Lecture Series is back, and after the last three years, we are finally In-Person. As previously, the Global Development Institute Lecture Series provides space for leading development thinkers to discuss their latest research and ideas. Lectures are free and...