Kicking off the semester with the GDI Human Resource Management students
by Lujia Feng, Programme Director, MSc Human Resource Management (International Development) At the start of this semester, we kicked off the year with something a little different, a learning session and social event for MSc Human Resource Management (International...
Do you have questions about migration? Take part in our public discussion
Amidst an atmosphere of increasing hostility towards migrants in the UK, the Global Development Institute’s Migration, Refugees and Asylum Research Group will be hosting a teach in/out to tackle misconceptions about migration and underline its role as a social good....
Earth observation data for the Global South: democratizing access or deepening inequalities?
By Mina Wang, intern with the Just Earth Observation for Conservation (JEOC) project Earth observation (EO) has long been used for environmental monitoring, but has become increasingly integral in recent years — not least in the Global South, where the promise of the...
Africa: Peace and development in the age of transactional geopolitics
By Teklehaymanot Weldemichel and Smith Ouma The African Union has long promoted the slogan “African solutions to African problems”. Yet recent developments across the continent suggest that this proclamation is increasingly hollow. To begin with, in a world of...
Join us for Transformation Lab Week 2025
The Research for Transformation Lab is an initiative at GDI that aims to explore and critically reflect on the connection between development research and the ‘real world’. The Transformation Lab week will facilitate conversations between researchers and...
What does it take to turn toxic organisations into thriving organisations?
On 16th September 2025, we held the second communities of practice in a series exploring the complexities of developing and maintaining resilience within the development space. Natalie Cunningham, Senior Lecturer in Leadership for Development at GDI, facilitated the...
We made poverty history. So why are we still here?
by Professor Nicola Banks It’s been 20 years since the huge phenomenon of Make Poverty History. Nearly one-quarter of a million people marched the streets of Edinburgh. More than three billion worldwide watched Live 8. And over 7 million of us wore white wristbands in...
Three Gains, Three Failures: A Reflection on the 2022 Jîna Uprising in Iran
by Dilek Celebi, PhD Researcher in GDI On 16 September 2022, a young woman’s murder shook the world. Jîna Amini – a Kurdish-Iranian woman known to the state as Mahsa Amini – journeyed from her hometown of Saqqez (in Kurdistan province) to Tehran. Accused of violating...