Africa’s infrastructure reveals many shades of competition and contests that can influence continent’s future
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...
What’s our role in changing the international aid system? A personal and practical reflection
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...
Transcribing mobile lives into urban spaces: observations from Haifa
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...
GDI at DSA2022
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...
Addressing menstrual health in Bangladesh
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...
In Conversation: Stefan Dercon
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...
Researching the everyday of transnational citizenship: Arts-based participatory methodologies and feminist ethics of care
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...
SEED PGR Conference 2022 – Broadening Perspectives: Meeting Complexity Through Interdisciplinary Research
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...