Events
An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia
Research Matters: An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia Colleagues from MIE will share brief overviews of different educational issues in Southeast Asia. Miguel Antonio Lim - The State of Higher Education in Southeast Asia Nay Myo Htet - Migrant learning centres in Thailand and the education of displaced population Nasharil..
GDI Community of Practice: Belonging and connection: The role of social cohesion in community resilience
Note: We are running two sessions at 8am and 2pm (UK time) Description While personal resilience is fundamental in staying optimistic and effective within challenging development roles, it’s not enough to keep us going in the long term. Community and solidarity represent a vital piece of the puzzle, helping us to tackle complex problems and..
GDI Lecture: Tax and Development: The OECD Experience, Joseph Stead
Speaker: Joseph Stead, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration The Seville Commitment emphasized the pivotal role of tax revenues as the largest source of financing for development. Realising the optimal level of tax revenues to support development is a complex challenge combining policy and administration challenges, as well as domesti..
MIE - Anti Racist Education Network: Countering Islamophobia.
November marks Islamophobia Awareness Month, and the Anti-Racist Education Network is pleased to invite you to a special in-person conversation with Professor Salman Sayyid from the University of Leeds on Countering Islamophobia. We look forward to welcoming you to what promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking discussion.
Insubordinate and captive mobilities: Time and agency in irregularised return trajectories between North and West Africa
A Migration, Refugees, and Asylum Research Seminar Speaker: Dr Sabina Barone, UCL In this seminar, I examine how the IOM’s ‘Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration’ (AVRR) programme plays out in the overall return trajectories of West African migrant men and women I could accompany before, during and after the AVRR procedure. Contr..
Green Research in Education Group (GRiEG seminar)
The subject of the seminar is: ""Learning and response-ability in dangerous times: the challenge of transformation"
Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Jonathan Reiter
Talk Title: The Role of Third Party Intelligence in Transparent Markets The promise of public ledgers is that everyone can see everything. But most public data is not usable by most end users. Instead over the last decade this dynamic led to a proliferation of blockchain intelligence tools and services that leverage available data to address..
GDI Lecture: The Myth of Deindustrialisation and the Possibilities for Development within Industrial Civilisation
Speaker: Andrew Fischer, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) This lecture draws from Celso Furtado's classic, Accumulation and Development: the logic of industrial civilisation (tr. 1983) in framing the centrality of industrialisation for understanding economic development and the fundamental differences between centres and periph..
Reflections on Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic
Book your ticket now for the next in series of the GM Connected Health Ecosystem! After the hugely successful AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models events, the GM Connected Health Ecosystem series will be returning in December with Reflections on Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic! This event will look at the less..
SEED Decolonisation Seminar
Presentation is captioned "The political dilemmas of decolonisation: Race, migration and the production of knowledge". The thesis is that decolonisation movements from the Global South lacked radical edge. They underestimated institutional power, relied on limiting binaries, undermined African scholarly agency, and diluted impact by overexte..