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 2022. The scholarship covers the tuition fees, living expenses, flights to the UK...
New Handbook challenges dominant development paradigms
A new handbook, The Routledge Handbook on Global Development, co-edited by the Global Development Institute’s Nicola Banks, has been published. The volume shows how processes and experiences of development have influenced people’s lives in both positive and negative...
Leaving Some Behind? LGBTI Exclusion in Development
Jonathan Stephen, MSc student, Global Development Institute This blog translates some of the key discussion points raised in my MSc Dissertation looking at LGBTI exclusion from development and, in particular, multilateral organisations. My research asked if...
When Covid-19 hits transnational urban lives: localisation and new solidarities
Tanja Müller, Professor of Political Sociology, Global Development Institute Semhar (not her real name) lives in an urban neighbourhood in Nairobi. She had, by local standards, a fairly comfortable life. She and her partner and two children are urban refugees from...
DSA Call for papers: Development Studies Association conference 6-8 July 2022
Academics from the Global Development Institute are helping to convene a number of 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...
Human Resource Management Enhancement Programme: Guest Lecture from the Morrinson Wealth Wellbeing
The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute offers a range of taught master’s programmes focusing on human resource management (MSc HRM), organisational change (MSc OCD), human resource management and development by distance learning (MSc...
Human Resource Management Enhancement Programme: Guest Lecture from the IBM
The MSc Human Resource Management programme aims to equip learners with a robust theoretical framework for careers in human resource management and, at the same time, provide students with an opportunity to gain insights into practice-focused human resource practice...
Podcast: African cities and urban sustainability: A conversation with Shuaib Lwasa
Our latest podcast episode features Shuaib Lwasa, founder and director of the Urban Action Lab, in conversation with Seth Schindler. They reflect on COP26 in Glasgow, discuss how Africa can position itself as an innovator in climate solutions, and talk about urban...