GDI Lecture Series: Collective operations in urban settings with Prof AbdouMaliq Simone
On Friday, 17 November, Prof AbdouMaliq Simone of University of South Australia delivered a lecture entitled Flickering in the dark: Urban tissue as provisional care. This lecture was held in collaboration with the Manchester Urban Institute. You can watch the...
Study for a master’s degree at the Global Development Institute
The University of Manchester will be holding a post-graduate taught open day on 22 November. If you’re interested in studying at the Global Development Institute but can’t make the open day then you can view the presentation below. Global Development...
Creating a sense of belonging: How theatre gave our migration research a home
By Caroline Boyd, Global Inequalities Campaign Manager (Research Beacon) When research provides you with human stories as emotive and keenly felt as those gathered by the 70+ researchers in the University’s Migration Lab, communication is not the biggest challenge....
A master class with Mark Dallas: unpacking power in global value chains
Aarti Krishnan, Global Development Institute and the Overseas Development Institute Governance and power form the core of value chain analysis; however, these two concepts are multilayered, complex and fuzzy. Both truly tick ‘the more I read, the less I think I know’...
In Conversation: Prof Dan Brockington and Dr Nicola Banks
For the few years, Dan Brockington of the Sheffield Institute for International Development and Nicola Banks of GDI, have been engaged on an epic project to map UK NGOs focused on development. The database they have compiled on the 900 organisations that spend over...
New book on the politics of growth from ESID researchers
We are pleased to announce that Deals and Development, a book resulting from Effective States and Inclusive Development research on the politics of growth, has been published. You can also read an Open Access version of the book here. The book is edited by three...
GDI Explains: Migrant or Refugee?
Global Development Institute explains brings together expert academics from across the Institute to explain key concepts in development studies. Who is a refugee? How do you define words like ‘migrant’ and ‘asylum seeker’? Are these synonymous...
The White Helmets: devastation, borders and humanity
By Caroline Boyd, Global Inequalities Campaign Manager Last night we hosted a free, public screening of The White Helmets at the Manchester Museum as part of the ESRC’s Festival of Social Sciences. Around 60 members of the public attended the open event which also...