by Emma Kelly | Mar 1, 2016 | Comment
By Professor David Hulme Last week, I added my name to letter calling for the UK to remain in the EU. You can read the letter, signed by leading development experts, in The Guardian newspaper. I, and my peers signing the letter, believe that for UK development...
by Emma Kelly | Feb 29, 2016 | Research Findings
By Laura Hirst An initial investigation of fire and rescue services, community participation and humanitarian assistance Fire risk and the impacts of fire hazard in resource poor urban settlements in the ‘Global South’ are hugely neglected within academic discourse,...
by Emma Kelly | Feb 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
The dynamics of well being, aspirations and politics in Egypt. By Dr Solava Ibrahim What is the impact of the Arab Spring on Egyptian citizens? How did the uprisings affect people’s aspirations and their relationship with the state? The literature on the Arab...
by Emma Kelly | Feb 25, 2016 | Events
Watch Professor David Hulme as he addresses at Bradford University on the shift that has occurred from the Millennium Development Goals. View the slides Our playlist of videos on MDGs and SDGs Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 22, 2016 | Comment
By Tanja R. Müller Even as – at least when listening to the media – it seems that Europe faces a unique challenge with the increasing numbers of refugees (or as the British media prefers to call them, towing the government line, migrants), who flee war in Syria and...
by Emma Kelly | Feb 19, 2016 | Comment, Events
By Chris Lyon The secret has been out the bag for a while now. Time was when the very mention of the words ‘inequality’, ‘distribution’, ‘power’, or, god forbid, ‘state’ in polite development conversation would see canapés dropped in shock and waiters scurrying to...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 18, 2016 | Events
Watch the official launch of the Global Development Institute, with Oxfam’s Winnie Byanyima, the President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester, Nancy Rothwell and David Hulme, director of the Global Development Institute: Share this: Click to...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 18, 2016 | Events
[View the story “The Global Development Institute Launch” on Storify] Thanks to GDI master’s student Rachel Louise Sadler for developing this story. Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Julia Taub Many people often wonder what they will do when they finish their studies. I spent most of my master’s year worrying about what would be next. Would I be able to get a job? Would this master’s help? Over the last few months my questions have been...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 10, 2016 | Comment
By Tanja Müller The news from Egypt will send shivers around the spines of all those who try to uphold the value of in-depth, in-country fieldwork as, to use Mark Duffield’s term, an ‘art of being in the world’. On a different level, it is yet another indication of...
