Climate Change Discourse and African Knowledge Perspectives
Recent climate change discourse at COP26 November in 2021 raised longstanding historical marginalisation of Africa and African perspectives. Situating Africa at the heart of the...
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Reflections on ‘The next ten years – and beyond’: Convergence or divergence in the study of politics, international relations and international development?
Blog post by Dr. Lata Narayanaswamy, POLIS How do social scientists involved in multifarious research agendas negotiate disciplinary boundaries? How might we enable more effective...
Summer School participants blog about their experiences
Last month Centre for Global Development held its annual Summer School. The theme was The Post-2015 Agenda, and over four days we had an array...
Reflections on CGD Summer School by Jim Elliott
Reflections on ‘The post-2015 development agenda: manifesto for an age of global inequality and turmoil?’ With the Centre for Global Development 2015 summer school sadly...
Summer School 2015 Blog by Franziska Seitz
My name is Franziska and I studied the MA International Communication at the School of Media and Communication this year. I was lucky enough to...
Summer School 2015 Blog by Tanja Dittfeld
Studying a master of science in development studies at Lund University in Sweden, I am evidently interested in the past, present and future trends i.e....
The ethics of 'Voluntourism' - 3 students debate the issues
POLIS along with the Centre for Global Development funded 3 students to attend a conference on international volunteering, run by Tourism Concern. They have produced...
The problem with Voluntourism
The problem with Voluntourism by Katie Lawrence In October myself and two other POLIS students attended a conference to help us answer some questions about...
Voluntourism conference
Blog post by Michaelie Coughlan A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate to attend a conference on the ethics of international volunteering. This is...
Voluntourism
Blog post by Lara Peterson I applied to attend the Tourism Concern International Volunteering Conference in London for one main reason – the concept of...