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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The Researchers in Development Network (RiDNet) invites PhD students and early career researchers across the disciplines to attend a Brown Bag Lunch Series designed to explore different methods of doing research in developing countries and to discuss ongoing research projects.
The Interdisciplinary Seminar Series aims to bring together two members from different disciplinary backgrounds to discuss their approach to a particular issue and how interdisciplinary collaboration can be enhanced.
Come, meet and network with other PhD students and early career researchers working in the area of development and join the network.
Researchers in Development seminar, 18 August 2011. This seminar was aimed at PhD Researchers conducting fieldwork in low to middle income countries. For those who had done their fieldwork, it was an opportunity to reflect on experiences and share ideas. For those with fieldwork still to come, it was a chance to ask questions and...
RiDN hosted a seminar on Ethics in Overseas Fieldwork on 13 July 2011. The seminar was aimed at PhD Researchers who will be conducting or have conducted their fieldwork overseas in low to middle income countries. It focused on both general ethical issues of conducting fieldwork overseas, as well as provided guidance for filling in...
Food security, Health and Impact Knowledge Brokering The goal of this conference was to demonstrate and share lessons on how to translate research results into impact on food security and human health in sub-Saharan Africa. It had two objectives: To determine how the results of basic science and inter-disciplinary research lead to impact on food...
Collaboration for Development: interdisciplinary research in practice PhD workshop The Collaboration for Development PhD workshop was held on 24 May 2011 at the University of Leeds. The Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (ESSL) Graduate School, University of Leeds, funded the event. The aim of the workshop was to facilitate and support collaboration among...
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.