Kicking off the semester with the GDI Human Resource Management students
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...
Earth observation data for the Global South: democratizing access or deepening inequalities?
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...
Africa: Peace and development in the age of transactional geopolitics
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...
Join us for Transformation Lab Week 2025
The Research for Transformation Lab is an initiative at GDI that aims to explore and critically reflect on the connection between development research and the ‘real world’. The Transformation Lab week will facilitate conversations between researchers and...