Has globalisation failed?
A new ARTE episode featuring GDI's Pritish Behuria has been released asking 'is globalisation on the way out? Or can it reinvent itself?'
Watch here: www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...
Finally, Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS and an Under-Secretary-General of the UN, closes us out with a talk on the oligarchic order…
Moving into our talk by Lord Jim O’Neill and Dr Gemma Cheng’er Deng about BRICS+ thinking
After a series of parallel sessions this afternoon, we move into our panel discussion with members of GDI’s international advisory board: Amani Abou-Zeid, Tony Bebbington, Imran Matin and Emma Mawdsley
Followed by Len Ishmael, who will talk to us about the new geopolitics of development cooperation in a G-1 world…
Kicking off day 2 of the GDI conference with our third plenary!
Ken Opalo speaking now about international development ‘after aid’ and the politics of navigating aid cuts
Plenary speaker Daniela Gabor talks to us about Developmentalism after US hegemony…
Parallel sessions have been in full swing this afternoon!
Pictured below is our Theme 3 session on Building Equitable Partnerships with a panel from the University of Ghana, SDI, Birzeit University and the University of Nairobi
The GDI conference is getting underway this morning with a first plenary delivered by Lee Jones and Yuen Yuen Ang on the new geopolitics of development…
"It’s great to be recognised as 5th in the world for Development Studies in the new QS subject rankings. GDI is where critical thinking meets social justice - and we’re very pleased our contemporary approach to complex issues is held in such high regard."
- Sam Hickey, Head of GDI
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GDI's Antonio Savoia chatting to students at the UoM (@manchester.ac.uk) Master's Expo today!
Come say hi to us at our stand if you are on campus...
Graphic card with a photo of construction taking place in Mogadishu in the background, an African Cities Research Consortium logo and text reading: "Journal Article | Worlding Mogadishu: "New cities" and material modes of urban speculation | Liza Rose Cirolia, Abdifatah Ismael Tahir, Tom Goodfellow and Abdullahi Ali Hassan".
📑 NEW | Worlding Mogadishu: “New cities” and material modes of urban speculation
Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, has undergone rapid transformation over the past 15 years.
Following the state’s collapse in the 1990s, and subsequent rebuilding, it has become a site of diaspora return and investment.
We are very excited to share that Development Studies at @manchester.ac.uk has been ranked no. 5 globally by the latest QS World University Rankings!
A new paper by Caroline Cornier argues that Colombia’s collective land rights have struggled to support new, sustainable livelihoods because they overlook how Afro‑Colombian communities remain economically tied to extractive industries, making real change harder to achieve.
Read: bit.ly/4byR3J2
Pritish Behuria will be delivering a talk for Seoul National University's Africa Seminar series on economic security in the era of planetary crisis.
Join online on Weds 25 March 2026, 16:00 – 17:30
Meeting link: snu-ac-kr.zoom.us/my/baraka880...
Find out more: snuac.snu.ac.kr/eng/index.ph...
We are so excited to welcome people to Manchester next month for the GDI Conference! We have a fantastic line-up of speakers and look forward to two full days of discussions.
We're fully booked, so please release your ticket if you can no longer attend / join the waiting list here: bit.ly/4cB39SV
Can indigenous political representation improve forest conservation?
Prof Bina Agarwal will deliver a talk on 18 March at @lseid.bsky.social to talk about India’s experience.
Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
‘There cannot be a corridor without Türkiye!’
Read the new open-access paper by GDI's
@sethschindler.bsky.social and co-authors Sırma Altun and Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ concerning the spatial component of Türkiye’s foreign policy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"The expansion of surveillance in Central Asia has unfolded not as a neutral process of digital modernization but as a politically charged response to regime insecurity, mobility, and shifting geopolitical alignments."
Read the new open-access paper by Arash Beidollahkhani here: bit.ly/4qWNErU
Picture of a full conference room at the Domestic Revenue Mobilization: progress and challenges event.
On Feb 10, UNU-WIDER, OECD Development Centre & Univ of Manchester @globaldevinst.bsky.social brought researchers & policymakers together in Paris to discuss domestic resource mobilization (DRM)—what we know & what remains unresolved.
The Tigray crisis remains largely invisible to the world.
"Factors such as race and the peripherality of the region made the Tigray conflict a blind spot in global geopolitics. But these explanations are not sufficient."
In @uk.theconversation.com by @tekgw.bsky.social: bit.ly/4qvJzux
🎙️ Uma Kothari from @globaldevinst.bsky.social explores the role of stories and storytelling in research and research impact in this quick soundbite.
🎧 Listen here:
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Text reads: University of Manchester School of Environment, Education and Development Inaugural Lectures: Prof Johan Oldekop and Prof Michael Wigelsworth Wednesday 18 March 2026 Cordingley Theatre, Humanities Bridgeford Street, University of Manchester
You are warmly invited to join us on Wed 18 March for inaugural lectures from Prof Johan Oldekop of @globaldevinst.bsky.social and Prof Michael Wigelsworth of @educationuom.bsky.social 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...
💥New | Reform coalitions can bridge the gap between community and academia
✍️ Diana Mitlin
#AcademicSky #UrbanStudies #Universities @africancities.bsky.social @globaldevinst.bsky.social
An upcoming online workshop invites paper submissions that advance empirical, theoretical, and policy‑relevant research on the developmental implications of servicisation in the Global South.
'Services and the Global South: Structural Transformation, Inequality and Development': bit.ly/3LU1LQv
New chapter ahead! Joining @globaldevinst.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Development Economics. Deeply grateful for an amazing 3.5 years at @ifpri.org - bittersweet goodbye, exciting times ahead.
blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/call-for-pap... Really interesting workshop being organised by Debolina Majumder and Michaela Collord @globaldevinst.bsky.social in April 2026 on labour-led urban development. Deadline of 31 Jan for bio and abstract!
🔎 In our latest blog, @globaldevinst.bsky.social's Jiayi Wang and Mengjie Xu argue that the just transition in the South envisioned by COP30 is jeopardised "if the new green economy is governed in the same top-down way as the old one"
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2499
📢 Registration is now open for the GDI conference on the future of global development.
Join us in Manchester 13-14 April 2026 for two days of discussions around the conference's themes, which you can learn more about in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Ly...
Register for free: bit.ly/4pVymmK
📢 Call for papers: Envisioning Labour-Led Urban Development by @globaldevinst.bsky.social
📍 @manchester.ac.uk / hybrid
📆 23-24th April 2026
⏰ Abstracts by 31st January
Find out more: buff.ly/r3tlxKt
