Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
The study of conflict in South Asia has been traditionally partitioned between insurgencies and ethnic riots. In this seminar, Adnan constructs a conceptual framework that integrates the two into a single geography of conflict and explains the distribution of these two forms of conflict through...
This event will explore how British institutions can ensure the best possible outcomes for sex workers and clients and the communities they live and work in.
This five-day course on Participatory Action Research (PAR) will provide participants with the conceptual and practical tools to design and carry out PAR. They will learn about a range of methods and develop their ideas into a detailed plan that they will be able to put into action on returning...
This one-day event is looking at why renewable energy has not taken off in Africa, despite significant promises of investment. It will share unique insights from the Green Growth Diagnostics in Africa project into the blockages or "binding constraints" to green investment, with Ghana and Kenya...
Leading economists and co-editors of the new book 'Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development' discus theories and approaches which, over a prolonged period of time, have existed as viable alternatives to today's mainstream and neo-classical tenets.
Join us in the Sex, Rights and Pleasure Lab, where teams of students will create new interventions to digitally-mediated gender-based and sexual violence, using a sexual health rights approach that highlights the importance of rights to sexual pleasure as well as freedom.
This 5 day course tackles an emerging problem in development evaluation: how to ensure that we have the right mix of methods to provide relevant and credible impact evidence. Learn how to achieve a better understanding of the potential contribution of various evaluation designs and methods,...
Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development Seminar Series
China’s interactions with the Global South have been the subject of much attention and study from both inside and outside the country. Yet issues of gender and sexuality have been largely ignored. What are the gender and sexuality impacts of China’s foreign investment, and are they any...
Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development Seminar Series
Launching "BRICS and International Development" book at the inaugural conference of the Global Research Consortium on Economic Structural Transformation in Beijing.
International conference on Agri-Chains and Sustainable Development (AC&SD): linking local and global dynamics - early bird discount ends 1 November.
Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development Seminar Series
The Chinese economy sits on a strategic yet worrying turning point from the high speed booming to a slower growth, which is conceptualized by the officials as the 'New Normal'. Dr Lu's presentation aims to reveal how to understand the elusive yet vital concepts coined by the Chinese government...
This workshop aims to assess the state of play in research on state-business relations in developing countries, and outline a research agenda which builds on this foundation towards better understanding of the role of state-business relations in shaping development outcomes, including but also...
