by developmentatmanchester | Nov 12, 2015 | Comment
By Nicola Banks One of the consistent battles I face as a researcher is the feeling of uselessness I experience in each and every interview I conduct. This is not to say that I believe our research is ‘useless’ – anything but. Research must continue to play an...
by developmentatmanchester | Nov 10, 2015 | Comment, Policy
By Dr Rory Horner In a new article published via Territory, Politics, Governance, Rory Horner reviews emerging evidence of the growth of South-South trade and argues for the need to move beyond win-win notions from development cooperation to highlight the commercial...
by developmentatmanchester | Nov 4, 2015 | Comment, Policy
By M Niaz Asadullah and Liyanage Devangi Perera* Vietnam’s performance in the latest round of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) has created a stir among education experts and policymakers around the world. The country’s 15-year-olds participated...
by developmentatmanchester | Nov 2, 2015 | Events
The next lecture in our Global Development Seminar Series takes place on Wednesday 11 November, with Professor Sandra Halperin. Sandra is Professor of International Relations and co-director of the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics at Royal Holloway...
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 30, 2015 | Comment, Events, Research Findings
Semester 1 is well underway, and the first two lectures in our Global Development Seminar Series have been excellent. On 14 October we heard from IDS Director Melissa Leach on Equality, Sustainability and Security: Towards Transformations in Global Development...
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 29, 2015 | Research Findings
Kojo Asante is currently completing a PhD focussed on oil governance in Ghana, and the politics of hydrocarbons alongside our ESID research team. Find out more about Kojo’s background and current work now via this Q&A for the Effective States website. Share...
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 27, 2015 | Comment
By Robert Watt, PhD researcher, SEED Surveys show that the British public is wrong about nearly everything. One more topic should be added to this list of falsehood: celebrity. Just as we vastly overestimate the level of unemployment, the number of immigrants and the...
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 26, 2015 | Events
Professor David Hulme will be speaking on addressing global inequalities at the first Manchester Informatics seminar for 2015 on Monday 30 November. Featuring an exciting line-up of keynote speakers, this series is themed around the university’s five research...
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 22, 2015 | Comment, Events, Policy
The second seminar in our Global Development series took place yesterday, with Professor Daniel Brockington. Dan spoke on the paradoxes of celebrity advocacy in international development in the UK, and their consequences both for development and democratic processes....
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 16, 2015 | Events
The second lecture in the Global Development Seminar Series takes place on Wednesday October 21, with Professor Daniel Brockington. Dan will be speaking on The Paradoxes of Celebrity Advocacy. The FREE lecture will run 4.30pm-6pm in the Cordingley Lecture...
