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States failing on gender commitments, new report concludes
Dr Narayanaswamy of the School of Politics and International Studies has worked with Oxfam International's Amina Hersi to jointly publish a briefing paper examining the state of gender equality over the last thirty years following the commitments made under the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
CGD Working Paper: Strong Foundations for Learning? A Critical Analysis of India’s Early Years Mathematics Curriculum
The Centre for Global Development is pleased to publish the latest paper in our working paper series: Strong Foundations for Learning? A Critical Analysis of India’s Early Years Mathematics Curriculum The article is co-authored by Caroline Dyer (POLIS, University of Leeds, UK), Suman Bhattacharjea (ASER Centre, New Delhi), Purnima Ramanujan (ASER Centre, New Delhi), Aashna...
'Radical (re) readings of Polanyi: splitting hairs and building bridges'
Congratulations to CGD Co-Director Geoff Goodwin who has published a new article in Globalizations: 'Radical (re) readings of Polanyi: splitting hairs and building bridges'. The article explores Karl Polanyi's concept of the 'countermovement', critically engaging with Rowan Alcock's reading of the concept.
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The Politics of Environmental Impact Assessment in India
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been part of contemporary environmental political discourse in India. In 2020, the central government of India altered the 2006 EIA...
The seductive simple ‘solutions’ of social enterprise and circular economy hide more complex political dynamics in providing safely managed sanitation for all.
The ubiquitous contemporary notion of global challenges often sits side by side with the search for grand solutions. Typically, social entrepreneurs occupy a heroic space...
Fantasy indicators are masking the real problems in achieving the SDGs. It is time for some difficult conversations with the indicator industrial complex.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present an enticing vision for global progress, promising unified action across multiple spheres such as social equity, environmental sustainability, and...
Events
PhD and Then What? Exploring Academic and Non-Academic Career Pathways
We invite PGRs and ECRs to join us for this RiDNet discussion and Q&A on academic and non-academic careers. We will host four speakers who will explore the different pathways available to PhD students and share insights from their own experiences.
Is your thesis singing? How to draw on qualitative data to communicate a strong overall thesis argument
This workshop aims to shed light on how to navigate the writing up of a research thesis and journal article. It will be a hybrid event to enable those who are on fieldwork or in different institutions to attend. Refreshments will be provided for those who can join in person.
PhD Transfer Workshop
This hybrid workshop aimed at first year PhD students will provide the opportunity to discuss the specifics of the transfer process and to understand how you can best prepare for your own transfer.
Our Work
The Centre for Global Development was established in 1984 as an interdisciplinary network, integrating research and expertise across the University of Leeds, addressing the transformation of human societies in response to critical global challenges such as poverty, inequality and climate change.
We are now a hub for research and engagement on the politics of global development, rooted in the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). We form one of the central pillars of our School's aim to address the politics of global challenges. We engage with critical understandings of past, present and future global transformations from the local to the global scale. Intellectually we are unified by a commitment to analysing how politics and power produce and perpetuate multiple intersecting inequalities, as well as exploring ideas and practices of ‘just’ transformations in human societies.
This work is rooted in critical development studies and the political economy of development. We are no longer specifically focused on ‘developing’ countries or the ‘Global South’: the interconnected challenges of poverty, inequality and climate change demand global understandings.
CGD has a long history of interdisciplinarity and membership is open across the University of Leeds. Our core membership is in POLIS in the social sciences and in critical development studies, but the nature of development studies means that we rarely work in isolation. We actively seek collaboration between the natural and physical sciences, engineering, medical sciences and the humanities. Our researchers are actively involved in collaborations and partnerships with external agencies such as the UN, national governments, NGOs and civil society organisations.