Join us for the online panel: Resistance and Struggle in Mining: Critical Reflections from Africa and Latin America organised by Centre for Global Development (CGD), University of Leeds and the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), University of Bath: Wednesday 5th June 16.00-17.30 (GMT) Online panel:https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/j/7478535629 Chairs: Ben Radley (University of Bath) and Geoff Goodwin (University of...
CGD are excited about supporting this event alongside LUBS Economic Department and the Centre for Business Law and Practice!
The Centre for Global Development (CGD) and Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) are delighted to host the launch of Dr Ben Radley's book Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus (Oxford University Press). In the book, Dr Radley details how foreign corporations have been prone to mismanagement, inefficiencies, and...
You are warmly invited to this upcoming CGD event. It is an on-line event so please use the following link to join: https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/j/7478535629 We look forward to seeing you there if you are able to attend.
We are delighted to welcome Dr Constance Awinpoka Akurugu, Visiting Fellow at the University of Leeds and Senior Lecturer at Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies in Ghana. Dr Akurugu will be presenting at a hybrid seminar relating to her current research: Reinvigorating Social Support Systems in Rural Northwestern Ghana: Towards Affective...
This workshop is organised as part of our RiDNet career development workshops, and will take place on Thursday 30th March 2023 from 10:30 - 12:00pm online. Tailored to University of Leeds PGRs who have an interest in grant applications to address global challenges, this workshop will help to unpack what it means to write a...
Please join us on Thursday 8th December 4:30 – 6:30pm (GMT) for this exciting and timely discussion on the politics of global climate change from a Global South perspective. This event will be held online via Zoom. This event will host a panel of speakers who will reflect on the recent United Nations Framework Convention...
Please join us on Thursday 17th November, 2pm (GMT) when Dr Sandra Bhatasara (University of Zimbabwe) will be in conversation with Dr Gilbert Tietaah (University of Ghana) and Dr Silas Oriaso (University of Nairobi). They will discuss: ‘Local ecological knowledge and climate change in three corners of Africa’ The research seminar is hosted by the Leeds...
Please join us on Wednesday 16th November 15:30 - 17:15 for a research seminar on 'Protecting the Amazon Rainforest: A Regional Governance Challenge with Global Implications'. The event will take place in hybrid form, meaning that you can attend in person (Clothworkers South Building Lt 2 (3.04)) or online via Zoom. Background The Amazon is...
water@leeds recently published an article in the One Earth Journal showcasing a list of six priority global water research themes for the coming decade, outputs from a global scoping exercise. These six thematic domains include water and sanitation for human settlements; water and sanitation safety risk management; water security and scarcity; hydroclimate-ecosystem-Anthropocene dynamics; multi-level governance;...
