by Global Development Institute | Jun 12, 2019 | Comment
Today, we’re welcoming researchers and activists to Manchester for a conference on the challenges and opportunities of scaling up participation in urban settings. But of the ten keynote speakers we invited from the Global South, only five have received a visa to...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 28, 2019 | Events
Professor Diana Mitlin, Professor of Global Urbanism, Global Development Institute How can participation be scaled up to make an impact that has relevance at the scale required? What are the challenges that must be tackled in terms of exclusion of those who have the...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 28, 2019 | Comment
Technologies of Bordering: creating, contesting and resisting borders conference 3 – 5 July 2019 Sidney Myer Room, University of Melbourne, Australia Conference convenors: Elise Klein, University of Melbourne and Uma Kothari, University of Manchester Borders are...
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 | Jan 30, 2017 | Comment, Uncategorized
30 October – 1 November 2017, Chancellors Conference Centre, Manchester The University of Manchester’s Migration Lab invites proposals for papers, workshops, exhibitions and performances which respond to the theme of ‘migration in the context of uncertainty and...
