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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,...
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...
CGD warmly welcomes Dr. Bertha Bangara-Chikadza (pictured top left) to the University of Leeds. She is one of 20 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...
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.
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....
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'.
Dr. Scott Timcke is among the cohort of African scholars holding a virtual research fellowship with Leeds University Centre for African Studies / Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute. Scott is a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Social Change. Awards like the virtual research fellowship can strengthen ties between the University...
Dr Lata Narayanaswamy was commissioned by the Gender and Development Network to write a policy brief, 'Decolonising Aid'.
A new piece by CGD member Dr Jörg Wiegratz examines colonial and racist language in UK reviews of a book about Rwandan politics and political leaders.
Dante Junior Solano Silva has been awarded the first Politics of Global Challenges International Scholarship for his PhD on ‘Shaping subjectivities: the socio-psychological change in times of economic growth and competing development politics in Latin America (2001 – 2015)’. Competition for the Politics of Global Challenges International Scholarships was fierce, so this is a major achievement for...