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...
by GDI | Oct 21, 2025 | Comment
By Mina Wang, intern with the Just Earth Observation for Conservation (JEOC) project Earth observation (EO) has long been used for environmental monitoring, but has become increasingly integral in recent years — not least in the Global South, where the promise of the...
by GDI | Oct 15, 2025 | Comment
By Teklehaymanot Weldemichel and Smith Ouma The African Union has long promoted the slogan “African solutions to African problems”. Yet recent developments across the continent suggest that this proclamation is increasingly hollow. To begin with, in a world of...
