Call for papers: Technologies of Bordering: creating, contesting and resisting borders
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...
PhD studentship on South-South Migration
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...
In Conversation: Armando Barrientos on social assistance
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...
Digitally removing the middleman for development: Trouble brewing in East African tea?
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...
The “global Britain” report: rule-breaking in foreign aid will not strengthen UK soft power
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...
Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships
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...
GDI Lecture: development states with Stephan Haggard
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...
GDI Lecture: What social network analysis can tell us about multi-stakeholder partnerships with Moira Faul & Jordan Tchilingirian
Listen or watch Moira V. Faul, Université de Genève, Switzerland and Jordan Tchilingirian, University of Bath, talk about ‘What social network analysis can tell us about multi-stakeholder partnerships’ Listen or watch to the lecture in full below. You can...