by Global Development Institute | Oct 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Open Access week for 2018 runs from 22-28th of October. To celebrate you can find a selection of our Open Access publications from the last academic year below. Open Access is a core value at the Global Development Institute, as Diana Mitlin, Managing Director of...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dr Chris Lyon, Research Associate, Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre ‘Global inequalities’ is one of The University of Manchester’s research beacons. How can academic research into inequalities improve our understanding; how can it help to...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dr Emma Mawdsley gave a lecture entitled ‘The Southernisation of Development? Who has ‘socialised’ who in the new millennium?’. You can listen to the podcast, or watch the lecture below. Emma had a bad cold during the talk so the recording was ended...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
On 8th October we were delighted to host Professor Nic Cheeseman to delivers a talk about his new book How to rig an election. In the talk he argues that contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dr Joanne Jordan, Honorary Research Fellow, Global Development Institute Academics in the UK are now working in a context in which doing research that has societal ‘impact’ is an increasingly important requirement for funders, institutions and scientific bodies. But,...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dr Indrajit Roy gave a lecture entitled ‘Dignifying development: Democratic deepening in an Indian State’. You can listen to the podcast, or watch the lecture below. Find out more about the other talks in our GDI Lecture series View the presentation You...
