by GDI | Dec 5, 2025 | Comment
Dr. Lujia Feng, Programme Director, MSc Human Resource Management (International Development), writes about the mental health session & social dinner on Tuesday, 25th November 2025 for students on the course. As we move toward the end of Semester One, our students...
by GDI | Dec 4, 2025 | Comment
by Mahtab Uddin Doctoral Researcher, GDI, the University of Manchester Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Dhaka For decades, the promise of global development was rooted in a simple idea: the world, though unequal, could move forward together. Richer...
by GDI | Nov 27, 2025 | Comment
We recently hosted the fourth instalment of our community of practice series designed to support development practitioners navigating difficult social, economic, and political circumstances. Having previously explored issues such as personal resilience, organisational...
by GDI | Nov 7, 2025 | Comment
In this blog, Evie Taylor, undergraduate student on GDI’s Global Development course, recounts her eye-opening summer travels in Nepal. Touchdown in Kathmandu After the chaos of India, touching down in Nepal felt like breathing out. There was a sense of...
by GDI | Nov 6, 2025 | Comment
by Louisa Hann In these times of economic and geopolitical upheaval, global development issues have been making frequent headlines. In recent months, for example, we’ve seen the controversial opening of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (an infrastructural project...
by GDI | Oct 22, 2025 | Comment
by Lujia Feng, Programme Director, MSc Human Resource Management (International Development) At the start of this semester, we kicked off the year with something a little different, a learning session and social event for MSc Human Resource Management (International...