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
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...
The Researchers in Development PhD Network (RiDNet) is a multi-disciplinary, cross faculty network for PhD and early career researchers working in international development at the University of Leeds. Many of RiDNet members undertake fieldwork overseas in different cultures and contexts. Fieldwork is an exciting part of many PhD journeys, but there is also a certain degree of...
The Key to Writing: From a Global Development Studies Perspective. Practical Hybrid RiDNet Workshops for PhD Researchers, Masters Students, and Early Academics. RiDNet Writing Workshop 1: Is your thesis singing? This first writing workshop will be facilitated by Dr Simon Manda, Co-Director of the CGD The intention of these workshops is to shed light on...
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 brown bag workshop series, and will take place on Wednesday 3rd May 2023 from 1:00 - 2:00pm online. We will be joined by Dr Jörg Wiegratz - Lecturer in the Political Economy of Development from the School of Politics and International Studies at Leeds. Jörg works on the political...
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...
The Researchers in Development PhD Network (RiDNet) is a multi-disciplinary, cross faculty network for PhD and early career researchers working in international development at the University of Leeds. Many of RiDNet members undertake fieldwork overseas in different cultures and contexts. Fieldwork is an exciting part of many PhD journeys, but there is also a certain degree of...
Going into 2023, one of the things we are keen to strengthen in the Researchers in Development Network (RiDNet) is more of a collaborative and cross-faculty research network for early career researchers working on development-related issues at Leeds. We also want to get RiDNet members more involved in the wider work of the Centre for Global Development (CGD)...
The Researchers in Development PhD Network (RiDNet) is a multi-disciplinary, cross-faculty network for PhD and early career researchers working in international development at the University of Leeds. Many of RiDNet members undertake fieldwork overseas in different cultures and contexts. Fieldwork is an exciting part of many PhD journeys, but there is also a certain degree...