The Centre for Global Development hosts and delivers numerous development related events.
Each year we hold our Annual Lecture and invite a prominent academic or senior figure from the development field to speak on a current development issue
We also hold collaborative events and lectures with partners within the University of Leeds, including the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI), LUCAS, water@leeds, Priestly Centre for Climate Research and Applied Institute for Research in Economics (AIRE), and from outside the Univeristy of Leeds.
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This international network, led by the Centre for Global Development at the University of Leeds, Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York and Sheffield International Development Network at the University of Sheffield, brings together an international team of scholars interested in developing a new research agenda on ‘transformative justice after mass violence and the role of non-governmental actors’.
This workshop critically explores the relationship between the politics of aid and being HIV positive in East Africa.
Juany Murphy is from the Otra Cosa Network, a network that mediates between foreign volunteers and local NGOs in Preu. Juany will talk about the constraints and possibilities of volunteering programmes, the programmes Otra Cosa supports in Peru, and how you can get involved, learn and contribute.
RIPOCA Research Findings Workshop
The University of Leeds launched the Centre for Global Development at a highly successful event on Thursday 4 November 2010. Four guest speakers spoke on the theme of 'rethinking global development' to a full house at the Yorkshire Bank lecture theatre in the Business School. Introduced by Dr Ricky Kalliecharan, the Centre’s deputy director, each...
Dr Nadine Beckmann of University of Oxford, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, completed her DPhil in 2008. Her thesis explores the complex negotiations involved in Zanzibaris explanation and management of HIV/AIDS in the light of technical and wider global changes.
The next event on the CGD calendar welcomes a panel of four expert speakers to discuss and debate questions on the theme of “Rethinking Global Development”.
‘Transformative Justice after Mass Violence’ World Wide University Network Workshop, Centre for Applied Human Rights (York) and Centre for Global Development (Leeds).
The Centre for Global Development is pleased to welcome Londiwe Nkiwane.
Topical seminar delivered by David Howlett, a visiting Senior Research Fellow in Climate Change and Agriculture from Africa College (University of Leeds).