Global Development Institute Blog

Participate in our upcoming communities of practice

Participate in our upcoming communities of practice

This year, GDI’s Natalie Cunningham (Senior Lecturer in Leadership for Development) will be running a series of communities of practice (CoPs) designed to support development practitioners (and those interested in pursuing a career in development) in building...
Affordable Housing, Financialization and Urban Statecraft

Affordable Housing, Financialization and Urban Statecraft

A lecture by Tom Gillespie at Cornell AAP explores the scale of the 21st-century urban housing challenge. Abstract The 21st-century urban housing challenge has prompted state actors in both the Global North and South to adopt increasingly interventionist approaches to...
Reflections on Embedded Research, Transformation & Impact

Reflections on Embedded Research, Transformation & Impact

By Dr Helen Underhill How does meaningful impact emerge over time in global conservation and development research? A recent discussion among researchers and practitioners within GDI highlighted just how complex, relational, and often invisible this work can be....