by GDI | Aug 19, 2025 | Comment
By Dr Gemma Sou and Ms Clare Steele. We’re told ever-hotter summers are inevitable. What’s less discussed is that Britain’s ability to cope has been systematically dismantled — not by the climate itself, but by 15 years of austerity. The UK has just endured its fourth...
by GDI | Aug 14, 2025 | Comment
Nicola Banks and Gijs van Selm Localisation. Locally Led Development. Shift the Power. These phrases have become fixtures in the language of international aid. They promise a simple but powerful idea: put resources and decision-making closer to the communities they...
by GDI | Aug 14, 2025 | Comment
As the start of term approaches, GDI is looking forward to welcoming our new students. To kick off the semester, we will be hosting a Welcome Week on campus (22nd – 26th September) where we will provide induction sessions, meetings and mixers to get to know...
by GDI | Aug 12, 2025 | Comment
Remains of the Pampa Lina saltpetre offices (foreground) beside modern mining waste (background). Photo: Esteban Valle Riestra By Esteban Valle Riestra, Postgraduate researcher, GDI The Atacama Desert in Chile may appear to be a barren and unproductive land, where...
by GDI | Aug 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
December 11-12, 2025, University of Manchester, UK. With support from The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute Journal of Development Studies Conference Fund Keynote speakers: Ravi Kanbur (Professor of Economics, Cornell University) and Anandi Mani...
by GDI | Aug 6, 2025 | Comment
An Early Career-led and focused workshop from the PhD ‘Political Economy of Development’ working group. Funded by the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the Development Studies Association (DSA), linked to the joint...
by GDI | Jul 28, 2025 | Comment
by Tanja Bastia, Erika Busse, Verónica Montes, and Andrea Souto Garcia At the 25th IMISCOE conference, the largest migration conference in Europe, recently held in Paris, we (the authors) took the opportunity to meet and discuss our respective research experiences,...
by GDI | Jul 28, 2025 | Comment
by Anuradha Ganapathy, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester “Development” as a concept and field of study is far from being free of its colonial, patriarchal, and hierarchical legacies. In this context, questions of who researches and who is being...
by GDI | Jul 28, 2025 | Comment
This year, GDI’s Natalie Cunningham (Senior Lecturer in Leadership for Development) will be running a series of communities of practice (CoPs) designed to support development practitioners (and those interested in pursuing a career in development) in building...
by GDI | Jul 23, 2025 | Comment
A lecture by Tom Gillespie at Cornell AAP explores the scale of the 21st-century urban housing challenge. Abstract The 21st-century urban housing challenge has prompted state actors in both the Global North and South to adopt increasingly interventionist approaches to...
