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Dr Graham Denyer Willis to run workshop in Brazil

28 February 2020

Dr Graham Denyer Willis will run a workshop at The Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium from Friday 6 to Sunday 8 March 2020 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The British Academy and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences have invited applications from early career researchers in the...

Dr Helena Perez Nino to run workshop in Namibia

28 February 2020

Dr Helena Pérez Niño will be Principal Investigator in a British Academy and Global Challenges Research Fund Workshop in Namibia in 2020. This programme provides UK - based scholars in the humanities and social sciences with the opportunity to develop one or more training and research workshops in the Global South aimed at...

Dr Jon Phillips receives funding for a new research project

28 February 2020

Dr Adam Branch (African Studies), Dr Jon Phillips (Development Studies) and colleagues have received funding from the British Academy for a new research project, Fuelling Violence to Fuelling Peace: Charcoal and Environmental Justice in East Africa . The project asks how charcoal feeds into violence against landscapes and...

Dr. Noura Wahby awarded the prestigious Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award in Social Sciences at MESA

19 November 2019

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Noura Wahby, former CDS PhD student, has been awarded the prestigious Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award in Social Sciences at MESA (Middle East Studies Association) 2019, for her thesis “The Role of the State and Urban Development- The Case of Urban Waterscapes in Cairo, Egypt” The...

Dr Tadashi Hirai publishes in Development Policy Review

1 November 2019

Title: Rescuing human development from a lip-service syndrome Authors: Tadashi Hirai, Flavio Comim and Richard Jolly Abstract: Despite widespread attention and praise from policy‐makers, practitioners and individual academics for the Human Development Report, the paradigm of human development has often lacked sustained...

GCRF COMPASS Leadership Programme on Solving Global Challenges, Cambridge

24 October 2019

COMPASS is running a programme between 9-19 February 2020 called GCRF COMPASS LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME ON SOLVING GLOBAL CHALLENGES AT CAMBRIDGE . More information can be found here https://centralasia.group.cam.ac.uk/news/TrainingSchool7DEC

New book edited by Dr Nitya Khemka released by Routledge UK

21 October 2019

Title: Social Development and the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia Edited by: Nitya Mohan Khemka and Suraj Kumar South Asia is amongst the fastest growing regions in the world, but it also has significant deficits in human development, with 37% of the world's poor and nearly half the world's malnourished...

Dr Maryam Tanwir has been awarded a fellowship by the International Labour Organisation, to the gender academy in Turin, Italy

17 October 2019

Dr Maryam Tanwir has been awarded a fellowship by the International Labour Organisation, to the gender academy in Turin, Italy. Details. https://www.itcilo.org/en/areas-of-expertise/gender-equality-and-diversity/gender-academy

Dr Amir Lebdioui publishes in Development and Change

7 October 2019

Chile's Export Diversification since 1960: A Free Market Miracle or Mirage? Abstract: Conventional wisdom has proclaimed Chile's recent economic development a ‘free market miracle’. In an examination of Chile's export diversification experience, this article departs from that view. By analysing the dynamics underlying the...

Maryam Tanwir and Shailaja Fennell publish in the Journal of International Women's Studies

18 September 2019

The 3 year research introduces and examines reforms in Punjab, where legal structural obstacles and discriminatory gender norms prevent women from accessing justice. The research introduces a new framework for influencing changes in individuals' behaviour to reduce the condoning of domestic violence. The publication is...

Dr Graham Denyer Willis to run workshop in Brazil

Dr Helena Perez Nino to run workshop in Namibia

Dr Jon Phillips receives funding for a new research project

Dr. Noura Wahby awarded the prestigious Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award in Social Sciences at MESA

Dr Tadashi Hirai publishes in Development Policy Review

GCRF COMPASS Leadership Programme on Solving Global Challenges, Cambridge

New book edited by Dr Nitya Khemka released by Routledge UK

Dr Maryam Tanwir has been awarded a fellowship by the International Labour Organisation, to the gender academy in Turin, Italy

Dr Amir Lebdioui publishes in Development and Change

Maryam Tanwir and Shailaja Fennell publish in the Journal of International Women's Studies

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