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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Are you a Leeds University PhD student and planning fieldwork in a developing country? We’re holding a lunchtime drop-in session on Monday 6th March 12-2 Baines Wing SR 2.14, with 3rd year PhDs with extensive fieldwork experience to answer any questions, queries, concerns you might have Anything including ethics forms, risk assessments, budgets, working with...
The Researchers in Development Network at the University of Leeds 5th Annual RiDNet conference “I, Researcher: exploring the research experience - context, self and interdisciplinary practice” Key note speakers: Dr Eleanor Fisher, University of Reading https://www.reading.ac.uk/apd/staff/e-fisher.aspx Dr Nilam Ashra-McGrath, University of Leeds https://medhealth.leeds.ac.uk/profile/648/255/nilam_ashra-mcgrath Conference programme Time Content 8:30-9:00 Registration 9:00-9:10 Welcome 9:10-9.50 Keynote speaker 1: Dr Eleanor...
Early Childhood Development in Challenging Contexts Date: 13/12/2016 | Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development and Centre for Global Development Venue: Room 1.05 Charles Thackrah Building, University of Leeds, UK. The Workshop will bring together international experts on early childhood development (ECD) and provision of child care for, health, social,...
The Leeds Social Sciences Institute and Centre for Global Development will be hosting a two-day high profile International Development conference around the over-arching theme of Vulnerability and Resilience at Weetwood Hall Hotel, Leeds. Why vulnerability? The theme of vulnerability speaks to a wide number of disciplines. It permits a holistic look at international development challenges, ranging from...
Researchers in Development Network (RiDNet) Leeds invite you to a lunch seminar on Wednesday 19th October: ‘Youth, police and violence in Rio de Janeiro's favelas’ - Juliana Correa, guest PhD researcher from Fiocruz Brazil ‘Methodological and ethical challenges of doing longitudinal research with young people’ - Dr Kim Allen, University of Leeds Venue: Social Sciences...
The Cluster aims to establish a collaborative network of academic/intellectual capacity to engage with the themes of civil society, democracy and development and how they intersect. Our focus is not simply the day-to-day practice of large and small NGOs – although those in themselves raise urgent questions around the nature and meaning of both democracy...
Professor Joyeeta Gupta ‘Sharing our Earth in the Anthropocene’ CGD 4th Annual Summer School in cooperation with EADI Keynote All Welcome Tuesday 7th June, 5pm to 7pm Maurice Keyworth (Business School) LT G.02 Abstract In the age of the Anthropocene, the environmental utilization space (ecospace) is shrinking: some abiotic resources are shrinking in the short-term,...
This year's CGD summer school is in cooperation with EADI Exploring challenges and opportunities to achieving ‘Just Practices of Development’ in the context of the SDGs As the international community gears up to respond to the new Sustainable Development Goals, join us to debate issues around development research and practice and whether and how...
RiDNet (Researchers in Development Network) invite you to a Social Research Methods training event on May 24th at University of Leeds. Come along to learn all about data collection methods ready for your fieldwork, wherever that be in the world. The workshop, led by Dr Jen Dyer (SRI), and Dr Ellie Jew (SRI), will explore...
Religion, homosexuality and LGBT rights in Africa Book Launch and Symposium 7 April 1pm to 5pm Venue Old Mining Building, room G.19 (Woodhouse lane) Speakers Dr Barbara Bompani, University of Edinburgh Prof Ezra Chitando, University of Zimbabwe Rev Jide Macaulay, House of Rainbow Ministries Dr Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds Dr Matthew Waites, University...