by Global Development Institute | Jan 7, 2020 | Comment
Following on from our blog post on 20 Nov 2019, Matthew Walsham and Dr Tanja Bastia are placing a call for papers for a session at the event. The session will be on intergenerational boundaries and migratory borders and specifics can be found in the abstract below....
by Global Development Institute | Jan 7, 2020 | Comment
As part of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) PhD Studentship programme, the Global Development Institute is delighted to offer up to seven fully funded four year PhD studentship with an integrated teaching certificate. The Global Challenges Research...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Professor David Hulme has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours list for services to Research and International Development. Through a distinguished 40 year career in development, Professor David Hulme’s research and passionate commitment to creating...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 20, 2019 | Comment
Mr Paul Barry, Teaching Fellow and Dr Lujia Feng, Lecturer in Human Resource Management In Semester One, students studying Human Resource Management are able to take the Study Enhancement Programme. The Programme includes organisational visits and guest lecture...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 11, 2019 | Comment
Kaxton Siu recently visited the Global Development Institute to discuss his new forthcoming book ‘Chinese Migrant Workers and Employer Domination: Comparisons with Hong Kong and Vietnam’. Kaxton Siu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Social...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
The DSA’s annual conference in 2020 will take place at the University of Birmingham from 17-19 June. The conference will focus centrally on “New Leadership for Global Challenges”, while also encompassing the broad range of development studies...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
To what extent are occupations shaped by the family’s educational record? In early 2018 we published a blog called Bangladesh and Education: doing well, could do better. It was based on late 2017 data from the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries project, which has been...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Listen or watch Cathy Boone, Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, discuss spatial inequality in African political economy: rethinking uneven development. Note: This article gives the views of the author/academic...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
“The recent creation or expansion of programmes of social protection all across East and Southern Africa raises intriguing and important issues for scholars of the region’s politics. This book, with its admirable combination of empirical substance and analytic...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Professor Uma Kothari is chairing the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 2020 conference which will be held at the Society in London, from Tuesday 1 to Friday 4 September 2020. The theme Uma has selected for the conference...
