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Sustainability Research Institute, Centre for Global Development and Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) Seminar Series Invite you to the third in the series on The Environment, Human Rights and Development Resource Politics and Advocacy Struggles in Zimbabwe: Encountering Power at Multiple Scales Sam Spiegel, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh As the mining sector...
Rainbow Collective, is a unique production company, formed as a social enterprise and committed to raising awareness on issues of human and childrens' rights through powerful cinematic documentaries and have collaborated with Amnesty International, The Consortium For Street Children, War On Want, TRAID, Labour Behind The Label, International Labor Rights Forum and many others. Over...
Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis Masterclass Maurice Keyworth SR 1.03 With Sabina Alkire, James E. Foster, Suman Seth and Paola Ballon (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative) The traditional view of poverty as income shortfall is rapidly giving way to a more nuanced view of poverty as simultaneous deprivations across multiple dimensions. This session will...
Integral perspectives on food security in South Africa - a replicable global model ? Prof. Michael Rudolph (Wits Siyakhana Initiative for Ecological Health and Food Security, South Africa) Tuesday 16th June, 10.15am-11.15am, Business School Maurice Keyworth SR 1.03 Food insecurity affects millions of South Africans and can be considered both a high priority and a...
Making solar cells from blackberries! SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS WORKSHOP WITH DR RICHARD KOMP* 28 November, 12.00 – 15.00 School of Earth and Environment, Seminar Room 8.119 MAKE YOUR OWN SOLAR CELL! For the past 30 years Dr Richard Komp has been promoting solar PV installations across the Global South and he has taught hundreds of workshops around...
Sustainability Research Institute, Centre for Global Development and Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) Seminar Series Invite you to the second in the series on The Environment, Human Rights and Development "The Violence of Development: Resource Depletion, Environmental Crises and Human Rights Abuses in Central America" Speaker: Martin Mowforth, Associate Lecturer, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,...
News Coverage of the ‘Third World’ and the Alliance for Progress: Communicating the Politics of Containment Jointly hosted between School of Media and Communication and Centre for Global Development – Chris Paterson, Chair Dr Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Lecturer in Journalism Studies, Department of Journalism Studies,University of Sheffield and co-director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media Harry...
Centre for Global Development (CGD) in cooperation with Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID) would like to invite you to the seminar by speakers from the both institutions. The seminar will focus on power, authority and agency in the developing contexts:
Dr Glyn Williams (SIID) 'Managing political space: authority, power and marginalised people's agency in rural West Bengal'
Professor Gordon Crawford (CGD) ‘Struggles for rights: power, authority and agency in Ghana’