by GDI | Nov 7, 2025 | Comment
In this blog, Evie Taylor, undergraduate student on GDI’s Global Development course, recounts her eye-opening summer travels in Nepal. Touchdown in Kathmandu After the chaos of India, touching down in Nepal felt like breathing out. There was a sense of...
by GDI | Nov 6, 2025 | Comment
by Louisa Hann In these times of economic and geopolitical upheaval, global development issues have been making frequent headlines. In recent months, for example, we’ve seen the controversial opening of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (an infrastructural project...
by GDI | Sep 4, 2025 | Comment
The past few years have brought a great deal of social, political, and economic turbulence across much of the world. From intensifying climate breakdown to growing geopolitical uncertainty, GDI academics have been working hard to conceptualise future threats and...
by GDI | Aug 12, 2025 | Comment
Remains of the Pampa Lina saltpetre offices (foreground) beside modern mining waste (background). Photo: Esteban Valle Riestra By Esteban Valle Riestra, Postgraduate researcher, GDI The Atacama Desert in Chile may appear to be a barren and unproductive land, where...
by GDI | Mar 6, 2025 | Comment
By the GDI Students for Palestine group It’s been over sixteen months since Israel launched a full-scale attack on Gaza. The events and loss of life that occurred on October 7th were deeply tragic. However, this violence did not start on October 7th. The Palestinian...
