by Global Development Institute | Mar 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Listen or watch Associate Professor Franklin Obeng-Odoom, University of Helsinki, discuss his upcoming book on property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa. Listen or watch to the lecture in full below. You can subscribe to the podcast on: Spotify...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Listen or watch Professor Katherine Brickell, Royal Holloway, University of London, discuss her ESRC-DFID funded study on the relationship between modern slavery and climate change in Cambodian brick kilns. Find out more about her Blood Bricks project. Listen or watch...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 4, 2019 | Comment
The Global Development Institute Merit Awards provide six full scholarships for academically excellent professionals studying a GDI campus-based master’s course commencing in September 2019. The scholarship covers the tuition fees, living expenses, flights to the UK...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 28, 2019 | Comment
Technologies of Bordering: creating, contesting and resisting borders conference 3 – 5 July 2019 Sidney Myer Room, University of Melbourne, Australia Conference convenors: Elise Klein, University of Melbourne and Uma Kothari, University of Manchester Borders are...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 26, 2019 | Comment
Project Description This full time 3 year PhD studentship, starting in September 2019, is fully funded by The University of Manchester and based at Global Development Institute. As a doctoral candidate, you will be part of the Migration, Refugees and Asylum research...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 25, 2019 | Comment, Uncategorized
In this episode Chris Jordan, GDI’s Communications & impact Manager, talks to social assistance expert Professor Armando Barrientos. They discuss why Armando decided to specialise in social assistance and how it has changed over the last 20 years. Professor...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Chris Foster, Presidential Fellow at the Global Development Institute, One of the benefits often associated with digital technologies is the potential for disintermediation – or put more simply “cutting out the middleman”. This concept forms the basis for many hopes...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 12, 2019 | Comment, News, Policy
By Heiner Janus, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute and Dr. Niels Keijzer, DIE A new report on the future of “Global Britain” proposes several radical reforms of the...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 11, 2019 | Comment
The Global Development Institute (GDI) is pleased to announce the availability of ten scholarships for distance learning, funded by the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission (CSC). These are for applicants from developing Commonwealth countries, covering all tuition...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 8, 2019 | Comment
Listen or watch Professor Stephan Haggard, UC SanDiego, discusses development states. You can download Stephan’s new book on developmental states for free until 14 Feb. Listen or watch to the lecture in full below. You can subscribe to the podcast on: Spotify...
