Staff Spotlight: Dr Tom Gillespie
Dr Tom Gillespie joined GDI in January 2017 as Lecturer in International Development, and holds a PhD from the University of Leeds. His research looks at urban development, and we chatted with him about how that research relates to global inequalities and his upcoming...
Can artistic endeavours enhance research? Migration Lab at the MIF17
Dr Cathy Wilcock – Migration Lab Co-ordinator and Researcher This post originally appeared on the Migration Lab blog The Manchester International Festival 2017 is in full swing. The festival specialises in commissioning new creative work and each year Manchester...
The value of stepping outside your comfort zone: a journey to discovery at the ICCCAD in Dhaka
By Nadine Suliman If I was told a year ago that I will be living in Bangladesh for a few months to research climate change and development issues, I wouldn’t have believed it. But then I was encouraged by my thesis supervisor, Dr Joanne Jordan, to apply to be a...
Gradually unpacking “global development”
Dr Rory Horner, Lecturer in Globalisation and Political Economy The composition of global inequality is changing. Between-country inequalities, although vast, are mostly falling, while the relative share of within-country inequalities within global inequalities is...