by Global Development Institute | Jan 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Development Studies Association conference will include an early career researcher plenary speaker session (within 5 years of finishing PhD). The session aims to showcase emerging talent and showcase their thoughts on how research agendas in specific fields of...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
The ‘Hrishipara daily financial diary’ research project has been collecting data from 60 low-income respondents living near a market town in central Bangladesh since May 2015, and is ongoing. Field staff visit our ‘diarists’ daily1 to record the money that flowed into...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 17, 2018 | Events, Uncategorized
Social policies and programmes for children living in extreme deprivation: 10-12 September 2018, Kampala, Uganda While there has been substantial progress in reducing global poverty in recent years, hundreds of millions of vulnerable children remain trapped in extreme...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 17, 2018 | Comment
Paul Barry, Cluster Convenor: Management and Governance in Development On Monday 18th December, seven first year PhD students from the Brooks Doctoral College met with a group of Global Development Institute academics to discuss informally how their PhD research is...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 21, 2017 | Events
Dr Kate Rowlands, Global Development Institute Creative approaches to teaching and learning are increasingly being used throughout Higher Education and beyond. Earlier this month I chaired the latest SEED “Teaching Matters” session, which provides lectures with a...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
We take a look back at our top five most-read blogs of 2017. In loving memory of PP The ‘PhD Gang’ remember their friend, and former GDI student, Purnima Purohit who sadly passed away earlier this year. How can development academics help change the...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday, 13 December, Dr Irene Guijt gave a lecture entitled ‘Evidence for Influencing: Balancing research integrity and campaign strategy in Oxfam’. You can listen to the podcast below. Find out more about the other talks in our GDI Lecture series Oxfam’s...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 19, 2017 | Comment
Dr Nicola Banks , Lecturer, International Development: Urban Development and Global Urbanism Christmas is a time for giving, when people think about how to extend their generosity to those in greater need. We put additional items in our trolley to donate for food...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 14, 2017 | Comment
Kunal Sen, Professor of Development Economics, Global Development Institute When commentators refer to rising inequality, they mostly mean increased inequality in rich countries like the US. But while national inequality may have increased in some countries, global...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hamza M. Arsbi, MSc International Development and CEO of Science League The University of Manchester is a world-renowned institution with an impressive record, which is why I choose to study my Masters in International Development at its Global Development Institute....
