Podcast: Tackling the Global Climate Crisis – Global Governance Dilemmas, Forest Protection and Indigenous People
Dr Markus Fraundorfer talks climate crisis on a new episode of the Ilkley Literature Festival’s Settee Seminars podcast series.
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Podcast: Enhancing the livelihoods of pit-emptiers in Bangladesh
CGD PGR Mariam Zaquout discusses her article published in Third World Quarterly discusses the experiences of emptiers from diverse socio-economic, religious and ethnic backgrounds, operating across a formal-informal spectrum.Manual pit-emptying – the removal of faecal sludge from pits and tanks using hands or basic tools – is a widespread practice in Bangladesh, and in other…
Do we need to decolonise aid? Colonialism, Covid and the climate crisis
Dr Lata Narayanaswamy speaks with Imogen Foulkes in a new episode of the Inside Geneva podcast, and is featured in a written article on the conversation.
Interview with Henry Shue on the ‘Politics of the Climate Emergency’
To coincide with COP26, BJPIR’s first ‘Editors Choice Collection’ brings together articles from the 2019 BJPIR ‘Breakthrough’ – put together by Elizabeth Cripps – that focused on Henry Shue’s (1993) foundational work on the egregious injustices in global climate policy whereby poor countries compromise their development strategies whilst rich continue their unsustainable lifestyles (see Shue,…
POLIS Politics of Global Challenges Scholarship Success
Zoe Annabelle Dawson has been awarded the first Politics of Global Challenges Scholarship for her PhD on ‘Towards Just Energy Transitions: Contestation of Renewable Resource Extraction in Honduras’. Competition for the Politics of Global Challenges Scholarships was fierce, so this is a major achievement for Annabelle, our congratulations to her! PhD Abstract: My research will…
Supporting Young Volunteers to Build an Urban Farm
Dr Ian Shaw has overseen a group of young volunteers building an urban farm in Harehills, Leeds. The young volunteers, aged nine to 17, have built the farm from scratch at Harehills charity Community Action to Create Hope (CATCH) as part of the ‘Grow Together’ project. They are giving away fresh vegetables they have grown. Dr…
Mentoring Research Fellow in Food Systems Research on Malawi
CGD warmly welcomes Dr. Bertha Bangara-Chikadza (pictured top left) to the University of Leeds. She is one of 30 early career research fellows (ECRFs) being mentored as part of the Food Systems Research Networks for Africa (FSNet-Africa) project, which seeks to strengthen food systems research capabilities and the translation of evidence into implementable policy solutions…
PhD student Keya Khandaker invited to write for for E-International Relations
Keya Khandaker, Postgraduate Research student and CGD member, wrote an article entitled ‘The Hypocrisy of the UK Government’s Plans for Girl’s Education in the Global South’ for E-International Relations.
Virtual Research Fellowship: Exploring Zimbabwean ecological knowledge and localising SDG 13
Dr. Sandra Bhatasara is one of nine African scholars awarded a Leeds University Centre for African Studies / Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute virtual research fellowship for the year 2021. Sandra is a Lecturer in the Department of Governance and Public Management at the University of Zimbabwe. She has trained in sociology, anthropology and public policy….
‘Writing and Researching the Political Economy of Inequality in Africa’ capacity-building initiative
CGD member Dr Jörg Wiegratz, will mentor doctoral students as part of a new British Academy-funded initiative, ‘Writing and Researching the Political Economy of Inequality in Africa’.
