Read our Q&A with ESID PhD candidate Kojo Asante
Kojo Asante is currently completing a PhD focussed on oil governance in Ghana, and the politics of hydrocarbons alongside our ESID research team. Find out more about Kojo’s background and current work now via this Q&A for the Effective States website.
Celebrity and development: the other side to advocacy
By Robert Watt, PhD researcher, SEED
Surveys show that the British public is wrong about nearly everything. One more topic should be added to this list of falsehood: celebrity. Just as we vastly overestimate the level of unemployment, the number of immigrants and the rate of teen pregnancy, so too we greatly overemphasise the public appetite for celebrity. As Dan Brockington explained in his Global Development seminar, even though research shows that surprisingly few people care for celebrities, these ‘popular’ figures still matter in development.
Hear David Hulme Speak on the UN Global Goals, and Human Behaviour
Professor David Hulme will be speaking on addressing global inequalities at the first Manchester Informatics seminar for 2015 on Monday 30 November. Featuring an exciting line-up of keynote speakers, this series is themed around the university’s five research beacons, including Addressing Global Inequalities.
LISTEN | Dan Brockington on the paradoxes of celebrity advocacy
The second seminar in our Global Development series took place yesterday, with Professor Daniel Brockington. Dan spoke on the paradoxes of celebrity advocacy in international development in the UK, and their consequences both for development and democratic processes.
Dan’s talk drew on themes addressed in his 2014 book, Celebrity Advocacy and International Development.
Listen to the talk:
Hear Dan Brockington on the paradoxes of celebrity advocacy
The second lecture in the Global Development Seminar Series takes place on Wednesday October 21, with Professor Daniel Brockington. Dan will be speaking on The Paradoxes of Celebrity Advocacy.
The FREE lecture will run 4.30pm-6pm in the Cordingley Lecture Theatre, Humanities Bridgeford Street (HBS) building. Come one, come all!
LISTEN | Melissa Leach on equality, sustainability & security
The Global Development Seminar Series got off to a great start on Wednesday with a lecture by Institute of Development Studies Director Melissa Leach. Melissa spoke on Equality, Sustainability, Security: Towards Transformations in a Global Development Era.
We’ll be announcing details of next week’s seminar, with Dan Brockington later today. For now, here’s the audio from Melissa’s talk for those who missed out – or wish to recap!
SDGs to the rescue in post-2015 development?
By Aarti Krishnan, PhD researcher, BWPI
As IDS director Melissa Leach delivered her inspiring, wide-ranging and thought-provoking talk – Equality, sustainability, security: Towards transformations in a global development era – to start our inaugural Global Development seminar series, I pondered the role of superheroes and development solutions.
Hear IDS director Melissa Leach at launch of the Global Development Seminar Series
The Global Development Seminar Series kicks off next Wednesday October 14 with a free seminar by Institute of Development Studies Director Melissa Leach. Melissa will be speaking on Equality, Sustainability, Security: Towards Transformations in a Global Development Era.
The lecture will run 3.45pm-5.15pm in the Cordingley Lecture Theatre, Humanities Bridgeford Street (HBS) building. Seats are limited so please register at bit.ly/GDsem1.
The SDGs mark the end of development as poverty reduction
By Professor David Hulme
The UN has been setting goals to combat poverty for the last 50 or 60 years, but this gathered pace since 1990, following the end of the Cold War. Hundreds of different goals, from those regarding child and women’s rights to hunger and the environment, were agreed upon. However, while this led to increased attention on various issues, most goals weren’t systematically implemented by either rich or developing nations.
David Hulme on the implications of the SDGs for Manchester
Watch Professor David Hulme outline some further thoughts on the Sustainable Development Goals in this short interview with Adam Farkas from That’s Manchester.
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