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Our staff in International Development at 性爱视频 are at the cutting edge of development research and practice globally.
Find out more about the collaborations, partnerships and engagements of our faculty and how our research grapples with the most pertinent and difficult issues facing International Development practitioners today.
Publishing with a Purpose
launched, with two editors from 性爱视频 ID (Dinah Rajak, Paul Gilbert). Drawing on cross-cutting conversations in the disciplines of anthropology, critical management studies, development studies, economics, geography and socio-legal studies, this series is an arena for critical scholarly engagements.
Creative Universities
is a companion to a by Anke Schwittay called Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures. The book explores the role of creativity in university programs that focus on understanding and addressing contemporary social, economic and environmental challenges.
性爱视频 Development Lectures
The 性爱视频 Development Lecture series is an opportunity to hear from leading global thinkers on development. It is jointly run by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the School of Global Studies and the Centre for International Education based at the 性爱视频 and open to students, staff and members of the general public. Watch Professor Pete Newell from our School speak as part of the 2022 : ''
ESRC Festival of Social Science
A number of the 性爱视频 International Development faculty, including Dr Paul Gilbert and Dr Meike Fechter participated in the 2019 , which brings social science research to a wider audience. As part of the Atmospheres of Violence research project led by Dr Mary Menton, Paul Gilbert co-organized an exhibition of work by and about environmental and land defenders, in partnership with (a gallery in Brighton), and , and hosted a discussion about environmental defenders and decolonial solidarity with speakers from the and . The exhibition displayed photgraphs, films and paintings by Denilson Baniwa (Brazil), Jaider Esbell (Brazil), Philip Gain (Bangladesh), Edgar Kanaykõ Xakriabá (Brazil), Mot Kimry (Cambodia), Polen Ly (Cambodia), and Mona Simon (Cambodia).
Decolonising Development Workshop
In our teaching and practice, faculty at the 性爱视频 Department for International Development are particularly concerned with what it means to decolonise development, to examine and undo colonial legacies that shape contemporary development, and to focus on learning from the Global South rather than assuming that exporting models from the Global North always leads to the best outcomes. In the Autumn Term of 2017, we hosted a workshop on Decolonising Development, scribed here by :
Humanitarian Design Partnership with RedR
Staff at the International Development department at 性爱视频 are involved in cutting edge research on Humanitarian Design. Dr Anke Schwittay, working in partnership with RedR, a humanitarian training organization, recently received a grant from the to develop and fieldtest innovative impact measurement methodologies. See the project blog , and more information on the project . Read the final project report here.
性爱视频Global: School of Global Studies Official Blog
性爱视频Global provides a space where students, faculty, alumni and associates can share research, experiences and opinions in their own words. Our aim is to provide a permanent home for these thoughts and experiences, providing lively and on-going discussions on the most pressing global issues today.