by Global Development Institute | Dec 11, 2018 | Comment
While our campus based master’s programmes are regularly oversubscribed, they don’t work for everyone. If you’re in a job you love, or have family commitments – but still want to immerse yourself in postgraduate study then a distance learning programme can be an...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 7, 2018 | Comment
Henning Melber, President of the EADI and Julia Schöneberg, Research Fellow at the University of Kassel Brazil as the latest example shows: right-wing populism remains on the rise, unleashing the brute force of predator capitalism under authoritarian regimes. The...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 6, 2018 | Comment
Dr Constance Smith, Hallsworth Fellow in Social Anthropology, The University of Manchester ‘Those building materials are bad! See that steel, it is very small. The bricks are also weak, they could not build a tall building like this’. Standing amid the rubble of a...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 6, 2018 | Comment
GDI researcher Seth Schindler recently presented at The First General Assembly of the Alliance of Scientific Organizations (ANSO) in the Belt and Road Region, in Beijing, China. Created by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ANSO brings together researchers, policy...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 29, 2018 | Comment
Ethan Hall, International Development MSc The eco-tourist bubble is the concept that animals, landscapes and ecological processes appear as if by magic, with no reference to the historical and social pressures that has allowed them to emerge; this was not a problem...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 29, 2018 | Comment
Dr Cathy Wilcock, Honorary Research Fellow, Global Development Institute & Postdoctoral Researcher at International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague Hillary Clinton ran for the US presidency against a man arguing that building a wall was the solution to...
