Critical accountants study how accounting shapes organisations and the social world. They aim to bring alternative accounts into focus. This parallels radical aspirations in development studies to empower countervailing voices in the economic sphere. Yet little dialogue exists between these...
Participatory approaches to complex social issues like child labour
This webinar articulates the research findings of a large participatory programme on Worst Forms of Child Labour in Bangladesh and Nepal (CLARISSA). It used participatory methods to build a micro level understanding of children’s lives, their workplaces, and their neighbourhoods. Watch...
Participatory approaches to complex social issues like child labour
Chain Reaction is a documentary film that explores a ground-breaking approach to Participatory Action Research where children working in the worst forms of child labour and the small business owners that employed them, analysed their circumstances and took action. Watch...
Join us for a special event to celebrate the 90th birthday of Richard Jolly and 100th birthday of Molly Beirne. As this year’s UNDP Human Development Report explores, the world is in dangerous gridlock resulting from “uneven development progress, intensifying inequality, and escalating...
The global digital public infrastructure (DPI) agenda is substantially informed by experiences from the Global North and South Asia. Africa has its own vast array of contributors to add to the debate. In a historic move, under India’s G20 Presidency (and with support from UNDP and...
What lessons can we learn from using local knowledge in countries like Sierra Leone to combat past epidemics like the Ebola outbreak and the recent Covid-19 pandemic. When an Ebola outbreak swept across West Africa in 2013, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the...
Join this T20 thinktank event on Fighting Hunger and Poverty in the UK and Internationally: Contributions to the G20 in the context of Brazil’s Presidency. The discussions will contribute to the process of establishing a Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, which aims to include...
https://youtu.be/7Ojb-9I6zow This seminar will share insights from researchers and activists from the Global North and South who are working together in the Trans-Atlantic ‘Building Back Better from Below’ and ‘Panex-Youth’ action research projects to document innovative responses to...
This is the end-of-project dissemination seminar for the ANTICIPATE project where we will present findings from our work in Western India. https://youtu.be/ZkpJeTKGfWI Changing rainfall patterns caused by climate change can increase the severity and frequency of both droughts and floods....
https://youtu.be/hIOI8BMk7iI Join us for a launch event for Prof Sabina Faiz Rashid’s book Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows, published by Routledge UK. Author Prof Sabina Faiz Rashid will read excerpts from her book, which is a compelling...
International collaborative research group, the Food Equity Centre (FEC), will share insights into inequities in food systems in Brazil, South Africa, the UK and globally, particularly in the context of South Africa’s 2024 elections, climate change, and the United Nations Sustainable...
Watch now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbminon-7x8 Questions about rigour, validity and credibility are central concerns of all evaluation practice. So too should be how we pay attention to meaningful participation to enable greater equity, especially when embracing complexity and seeking...
