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....
by Global Development Institute | Dec 13, 2017 | Comment
This blog originally appeared on the Manchester Migration Lab website Blog by Natalie Anne Hall, PhD Candidate, Sociology, The University of Manchester As researchers, we often register for conferences excited and hopeful, arrive at them slightly nervous and, as our...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna and Kunal Sen In spite of recent and unprecedented poverty reduction, the notion that an individual’s expected level of achievement should be ‘a function only of his effort and not of his circumstances’ remains a distant ideal. While...
