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
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.
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).
Topical seminar delivered by David Howlett, a visiting Senior Research Fellow in Climate Change and Agriculture from Africa College (University of Leeds).