Events
Building Futures, Thinking Long-Term: Insights on Collaborating with Those Impacted by Long-Term Imprisonment to Shape Policies That Affect Them
The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) is an independent UK charity working to create a just, humane and effective penal system. Building Futures – PRT’s six-year programme funded by the National Lottery Community Fund – has explored the experiences of people serving long prison sentences. The programme defines its long-term cohort as men expecte..
Book Launch: Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia
Join us to celebrate the publication of Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia, Policy Press https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/diverse-transnational-care By Tanja Bastia and Claudia Calsina Transnational care practices differ and are not available to everyone in equal measure. Drawing on interviews with migran..
Reimagining New Towns: Delivering Growth and Place-Making for 21st Century England
Join us for an exploration of the New Towns Taskforce Report to Government, a major contribution to the national conversation on housing and place-making. The event will explore how new towns can help address England’s housing challenges, featuring reflections from Dame Kate Barker, the deputy chair of the government taskforce that produced..
GDI Film Screening: A Place in the City, Gabriel Silvestre
A Place in the City, by Dr Gabriel Silvestre, from Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, features communities in Latin America facing displacement, segregation, and gender inequality. The film captures how ordinary people are reshaping their neighbourhoods—fighting not just for rights, but for the power to de..
GDI Lecture: Fettered Development and Political Turmoil: 15 Years Since the Arab Spring, Gilbert Achcar
Speaker: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS The political landscape in the MENA region looks bleaker today than ever before. This is in sharp contrast with the euphoria aroused fifteen years ago by the 2011 revolutionary shockwave commonly known as the Arab Spring. Two years into that shockwave, regional political winds had already reversed. But a further..
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: Rethinking resistance: Sudan’s resistance committees during revolution, peace and war
Speaker: Sharath Srinivasan Professor Sharath Srinivasan is the David and Elaine Potter Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is a scholar of contentious politics in Africa in global perspective, whose work has evolved from explaining failed p..
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.