by Global Development Institute | Jan 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Development Studies Association conference will include an early career researcher plenary speaker session (within 5 years of finishing PhD). The session aims to showcase emerging talent and showcase their thoughts on how research agendas in specific fields of...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
The ‘Hrishipara daily financial diary’ research project has been collecting data from 60 low-income respondents living near a market town in central Bangladesh since May 2015, and is ongoing. Field staff visit our ‘diarists’ daily1 to record the money that flowed into...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 17, 2018 | Events, Uncategorized
Social policies and programmes for children living in extreme deprivation: 10-12 September 2018, Kampala, Uganda While there has been substantial progress in reducing global poverty in recent years, hundreds of millions of vulnerable children remain trapped in extreme...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
We take a look back at our top five most-read blogs of 2017. In loving memory of PP The ‘PhD Gang’ remember their friend, and former GDI student, Purnima Purohit who sadly passed away earlier this year. How can development academics help change the...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday, 13 December, Dr Irene Guijt gave a lecture entitled ‘Evidence for Influencing: Balancing research integrity and campaign strategy in Oxfam’. You can listen to the podcast below. Find out more about the other talks in our GDI Lecture series Oxfam’s...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hamza M. Arsbi, MSc International Development and CEO of Science League The University of Manchester is a world-renowned institution with an impressive record, which is why I choose to study my Masters in International Development at its Global Development Institute....