Poverty and social injustice: why are people advocating a ‘relational’ approach? (and what does that mean anyway?)
Dr Chris Lyon, Research Associate, Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre ‘Global inequalities’ is one of The University of Manchester’s research beacons. How can academic research into inequalities improve our understanding; how can it help to...
Organisational Change: Science, Art or Alchemy?
On the 7 and 8 September 2018, two second year PhD students from the Development Policy and Management Programme, Kunkanit Sutamchai and Xi Xi, presented papers at the “12th Colloquium on Organisational Change and Development”. This annual colloquium is organised by...
GDI Lecture Series: The Southernisation of Development with Emma Mawdsley
Dr Emma Mawdsley gave a lecture entitled ‘The Southernisation of Development? Who has ‘socialised’ who in the new millennium?’. You can listen to the podcast, or watch the lecture below. Emma had a bad cold during the talk so the recording was ended...
Podcast: How to rig an election (and get away with it) – Nic Cheeseman
On 8th October we were delighted to host Professor Nic Cheeseman to delivers a talk about his new book How to rig an election. In the talk he argues that contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to...
Reflections on an embedded approach to research with impact
Dr Joanne Jordan, Honorary Research Fellow, Global Development Institute Academics in the UK are now working in a context in which doing research that has societal ‘impact’ is an increasingly important requirement for funders, institutions and scientific bodies. But,...
Hrishipara daily financial diaries: Receiving Gifts in Low-Income Households
Since May 2015 we have been conducting a ‘financial diary’ research project in central Bangladesh in which we record, each day, all the transactions made that day by our ‘diarists’ (as we call our volunteer respondents). You can read more about the project on its...
GDI Lecture Series: Democratic deepening in an Indian State with Indrajit Roy
Dr Indrajit Roy gave a lecture entitled ‘Dignifying development: Democratic deepening in an Indian State’. You can listen to the podcast, or watch the lecture below. Find out more about the other talks in our GDI Lecture series View the presentation You...
Brazil goes to the polls on Sunday in a highly polarised election: quick guide
Dr Chris Lyon, Research Associate, Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre It is the Brazilian general election on Sunday October 7th 2018. It has been a highly volatile, polarised, and unpredictable affair, and on the face of it the choice, at...