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We’re the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester: where critical thinking meets social justice.
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How do you feel about immigration?
Recent YouGov polling found that 52% of voters believe immigration to be the most important issue facing the UK.
@globaldevinst.bsky.social are holding a public discussion on immigration at John Rylands Library, this Friday.
Recent YouGov polling found that 52% of voters believe immigration to be the most important issue facing the UK.
@globaldevinst.bsky.social are holding a public discussion on immigration at John Rylands Library, this Friday.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
How do you feel about immigration?
Recent YouGov polling found that 52% of voters believe immigration to be the most important issue facing the UK.
@globaldevinst.bsky.social are holding a public discussion on immigration at John Rylands Library, this Friday.
Recent YouGov polling found that 52% of voters believe immigration to be the most important issue facing the UK.
@globaldevinst.bsky.social are holding a public discussion on immigration at John Rylands Library, this Friday.
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In the latest issue of @iajournal.bsky.social International Affairs, you can read my latest paper, titled "Beyond Trade? Chinese private capital under the African Continental Free Trade Area" 📖
Open access: doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
@globaldevinst.bsky.social
Open access: doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
@globaldevinst.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
In the latest issue of @iajournal.bsky.social International Affairs, you can read my latest paper, titled "Beyond Trade? Chinese private capital under the African Continental Free Trade Area" 📖
Open access: doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
@globaldevinst.bsky.social
Open access: doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
@globaldevinst.bsky.social
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Join us online on Friday 7th Nov for the book launch of 'Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia', by Tanja Bastia and Claudia Calsina.
Speakers will include the authors themselves as well as invited guests.
Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Speakers will include the authors themselves as well as invited guests.
Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Join us online on Friday 7th Nov for the book launch of 'Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia', by Tanja Bastia and Claudia Calsina.
Speakers will include the authors themselves as well as invited guests.
Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Speakers will include the authors themselves as well as invited guests.
Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
"Famine – the extreme scarcity of food – devastated Ethiopia’s Tigray region during and after a two-year war that began in November 2020. Yet, the famine’s impact is one of the least documented crises of recent years."
Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel writes for @uk.theconversation.com: bit.ly/3LuzSxD
Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel writes for @uk.theconversation.com: bit.ly/3LuzSxD
Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray
Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"Famine – the extreme scarcity of food – devastated Ethiopia’s Tigray region during and after a two-year war that began in November 2020. Yet, the famine’s impact is one of the least documented crises of recent years."
Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel writes for @uk.theconversation.com: bit.ly/3LuzSxD
Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel writes for @uk.theconversation.com: bit.ly/3LuzSxD
New call for papers: What is the future for global development?
We are pleased to announce that GDI is hosting a conference in April 2026, and we are now accepting abstracts for papers and posters.
Please see the full Call for Papers for more info as well as the form to submit: bit.ly/4omBJ6o
We are pleased to announce that GDI is hosting a conference in April 2026, and we are now accepting abstracts for papers and posters.
Please see the full Call for Papers for more info as well as the form to submit: bit.ly/4omBJ6o
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New call for papers: What is the future for global development?
We are pleased to announce that GDI is hosting a conference in April 2026, and we are now accepting abstracts for papers and posters.
Please see the full Call for Papers for more info as well as the form to submit: bit.ly/4omBJ6o
We are pleased to announce that GDI is hosting a conference in April 2026, and we are now accepting abstracts for papers and posters.
Please see the full Call for Papers for more info as well as the form to submit: bit.ly/4omBJ6o
A new paper by Osman Ouattara and colleagues examines how climate variability affects labour productivity across municipalities in Accra, Ghana.
The open-access article can be read online here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The open-access article can be read online here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A new paper by Osman Ouattara and colleagues examines how climate variability affects labour productivity across municipalities in Accra, Ghana.
The open-access article can be read online here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The open-access article can be read online here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🇪🇹 #Ethiopia La famine créée comme instrument de guerre.
"Famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid – designed to destroy civilian life."
by @tekgw.bsky.social and Birhan Mezgbo
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
"Famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid – designed to destroy civilian life."
by @tekgw.bsky.social and Birhan Mezgbo
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray
Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🇪🇹 #Ethiopia La famine créée comme instrument de guerre.
"Famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid – designed to destroy civilian life."
by @tekgw.bsky.social and Birhan Mezgbo
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
"Famine in #Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid – designed to destroy civilian life."
by @tekgw.bsky.social and Birhan Mezgbo
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
With a hostile jobs market and declining living standards turning younger generations against contemporary capitalism, Seth Schindler asks whether the kind of municipal socialism promised by Zohran Mamdani could provide effective solutions.
Read now: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/is-it-time-t...
Read now: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/is-it-time-t...
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
With a hostile jobs market and declining living standards turning younger generations against contemporary capitalism, Seth Schindler asks whether the kind of municipal socialism promised by Zohran Mamdani could provide effective solutions.
Read now: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/is-it-time-t...
Read now: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/is-it-time-t...
The latest instalment of the GDI podcast brings you a conversation with alumnus and research fellow Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia about his recent book 'A Long Journey Home: Losing and Remaking Home Following Conflict and Displacement'
Listen here: bit.ly/3JCtbJj
Read the book: bit.ly/3Ly4YEw
Listen here: bit.ly/3JCtbJj
Read the book: bit.ly/3Ly4YEw
October 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The latest instalment of the GDI podcast brings you a conversation with alumnus and research fellow Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia about his recent book 'A Long Journey Home: Losing and Remaking Home Following Conflict and Displacement'
Listen here: bit.ly/3JCtbJj
Read the book: bit.ly/3Ly4YEw
Listen here: bit.ly/3JCtbJj
Read the book: bit.ly/3Ly4YEw
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Do you have questions about migration?
On 14 November, join GDI's Tanja Bastia and colleagues at the John Rylands Library for a Teach in/Teach out, part of the coordinated activities of the Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity Resistance Network.
Register to attend for free: bit.ly/4h0WjWU
On 14 November, join GDI's Tanja Bastia and colleagues at the John Rylands Library for a Teach in/Teach out, part of the coordinated activities of the Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity Resistance Network.
Register to attend for free: bit.ly/4h0WjWU
October 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Do you have questions about migration?
On 14 November, join GDI's Tanja Bastia and colleagues at the John Rylands Library for a Teach in/Teach out, part of the coordinated activities of the Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity Resistance Network.
Register to attend for free: bit.ly/4h0WjWU
On 14 November, join GDI's Tanja Bastia and colleagues at the John Rylands Library for a Teach in/Teach out, part of the coordinated activities of the Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity Resistance Network.
Register to attend for free: bit.ly/4h0WjWU
"At the start of this semester, we kicked off the year with something a little different, a learning session and social event for MSc Human Resource Management (International Development) students."
Prof Lujia Feng writes for the GDI blog: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/kicking-off-...
Prof Lujia Feng writes for the GDI blog: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/kicking-off-...
Kicking off the semester with the GDI Human Resource Management students - Global Development Institute Blog
At the start of this semester, we kicked off the year with something a little different, a learning session and social event for MSc Human Resource Management (International Development) students on F...
blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"At the start of this semester, we kicked off the year with something a little different, a learning session and social event for MSc Human Resource Management (International Development) students."
Prof Lujia Feng writes for the GDI blog: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/kicking-off-...
Prof Lujia Feng writes for the GDI blog: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/kicking-off-...
Join us online on Friday 7th Nov for the book launch of 'Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia', by Tanja Bastia and Claudia Calsina.
Speakers will include the authors themselves as well as invited guests.
Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Speakers will include the authors themselves as well as invited guests.
Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Join us online on Friday 7th Nov for the book launch of 'Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia', by Tanja Bastia and Claudia Calsina.
Speakers will include the authors themselves as well as invited guests.
Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Speakers will include the authors themselves as well as invited guests.
Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Don't miss the @hcrinstitute.bsky.social Landmark Lecture 2025, which will be given by Prof Marsha Henry of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social on 19 Nov.
Register and learn more about the event here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hcri-landm...
Register and learn more about the event here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hcri-landm...
HCRI Landmark Lecture 2025
This year's Landmark Lecture will be given by Prof. Marsha Henry, Queen's University Belfast.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Don't miss the @hcrinstitute.bsky.social Landmark Lecture 2025, which will be given by Prof Marsha Henry of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social on 19 Nov.
Register and learn more about the event here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hcri-landm...
Register and learn more about the event here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hcri-landm...
This week is #OpenAccessWeek, and we have pulled together some of the exciting new open access papers from our colleagues at GDI!
Explore this thread to find your next read...
Explore this thread to find your next read...
October 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This week is #OpenAccessWeek, and we have pulled together some of the exciting new open access papers from our colleagues at GDI!
Explore this thread to find your next read...
Explore this thread to find your next read...
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🌍Empowering Ghana's youth
A programme backed by the School of Social Sciences, @globaldevinst.bsky.social and Good Neighbours is helping teens delay pregnancy.
Community-led change and education is working.
🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e...
A programme backed by the School of Social Sciences, @globaldevinst.bsky.social and Good Neighbours is helping teens delay pregnancy.
Community-led change and education is working.
🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e...
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🌍Empowering Ghana's youth
A programme backed by the School of Social Sciences, @globaldevinst.bsky.social and Good Neighbours is helping teens delay pregnancy.
Community-led change and education is working.
🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e...
A programme backed by the School of Social Sciences, @globaldevinst.bsky.social and Good Neighbours is helping teens delay pregnancy.
Community-led change and education is working.
🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e...
A new open-access paper by GDI's Tanja Müller is based upon interviews with Eritrean migrants in Addis Ababa, using "the lens of lived citizenship in the everyday to investigate belonging as experienced, created and contested."
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A new open-access paper by GDI's Tanja Müller is based upon interviews with Eritrean migrants in Addis Ababa, using "the lens of lived citizenship in the everyday to investigate belonging as experienced, created and contested."
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Come on down to the Manchester Museum for the upcoming exhibition “Hulme Nannas: (In)visibility, Community and Urban Change”, taking place on Wednesday 5 November from 6PM to 8PM.
Register and learn more here: bit.ly/4okvxMh
Register and learn more here: bit.ly/4okvxMh
October 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Come on down to the Manchester Museum for the upcoming exhibition “Hulme Nannas: (In)visibility, Community and Urban Change”, taking place on Wednesday 5 November from 6PM to 8PM.
Register and learn more here: bit.ly/4okvxMh
Register and learn more here: bit.ly/4okvxMh
Today marks 80 years since Manchester hosted the 5th Pan-African Congress, a landmark moment in the fight for African independence that "placed Manchester at the epicentre of global and successful liberation movements":
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The 'radical' Manchester event that changed Africa forever
A 1945 Manchester congress was a key moment in the efforts to end British rule across Africa.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Today marks 80 years since Manchester hosted the 5th Pan-African Congress, a landmark moment in the fight for African independence that "placed Manchester at the epicentre of global and successful liberation movements":
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today @gdi-students-4-pal.bsky.social are hosting an incredible conference on Palestine, social justice and development studies.
Find out more, and join online here: studentsforpalestinegdi.wordpress.com/gdi-conferen...
Find out more, and join online here: studentsforpalestinegdi.wordpress.com/gdi-conferen...
October 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Today @gdi-students-4-pal.bsky.social are hosting an incredible conference on Palestine, social justice and development studies.
Find out more, and join online here: studentsforpalestinegdi.wordpress.com/gdi-conferen...
Find out more, and join online here: studentsforpalestinegdi.wordpress.com/gdi-conferen...
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📚 Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia will be discussed in a webinar with @globaldevinst.bsky.social's Tania Bastia and co-author Claudia Calsina
📆 7 Nov 2025
✨ More information and to register: buff.ly/PWxcC6J
✨ All GDI news: buff.ly/8hepzaX
📆 7 Nov 2025
✨ More information and to register: buff.ly/PWxcC6J
✨ All GDI news: buff.ly/8hepzaX
October 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
📚 Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia will be discussed in a webinar with @globaldevinst.bsky.social's Tania Bastia and co-author Claudia Calsina
📆 7 Nov 2025
✨ More information and to register: buff.ly/PWxcC6J
✨ All GDI news: buff.ly/8hepzaX
📆 7 Nov 2025
✨ More information and to register: buff.ly/PWxcC6J
✨ All GDI news: buff.ly/8hepzaX
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🆕Tanja R. Müller(@globaldevinst.bsky.social) explores how #Eritrean migrants in Addis Ababa experience, create & contest belonging using the lens of lived citizenship, revealing how its affective dimension underpins spatial, intersubjective & performed dimensions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
October 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🆕Tanja R. Müller(@globaldevinst.bsky.social) explores how #Eritrean migrants in Addis Ababa experience, create & contest belonging using the lens of lived citizenship, revealing how its affective dimension underpins spatial, intersubjective & performed dimensions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
In a new article on the GDI blog, @tekgw.bsky.social and @oumaoti.bsky.social discuss connections between Africa's struggles and wider global forces, underlining the urgent need for Pan-African solidarity in countering the threat of new colonial dynamics: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/africa-peace...
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In a new article on the GDI blog, @tekgw.bsky.social and @oumaoti.bsky.social discuss connections between Africa's struggles and wider global forces, underlining the urgent need for Pan-African solidarity in countering the threat of new colonial dynamics: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/africa-peace...
Do you have questions about migration?
On 14 November, join GDI's Tanja Bastia and colleagues at the John Rylands Library for a Teach in/Teach out, part of the coordinated activities of the Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity Resistance Network.
Register to attend for free: bit.ly/4h0WjWU
On 14 November, join GDI's Tanja Bastia and colleagues at the John Rylands Library for a Teach in/Teach out, part of the coordinated activities of the Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity Resistance Network.
Register to attend for free: bit.ly/4h0WjWU
October 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Do you have questions about migration?
On 14 November, join GDI's Tanja Bastia and colleagues at the John Rylands Library for a Teach in/Teach out, part of the coordinated activities of the Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity Resistance Network.
Register to attend for free: bit.ly/4h0WjWU
On 14 November, join GDI's Tanja Bastia and colleagues at the John Rylands Library for a Teach in/Teach out, part of the coordinated activities of the Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity Resistance Network.
Register to attend for free: bit.ly/4h0WjWU
Our next Community of Practice led by Natalie Cunningham will take place on Tuesday 21st October, discussing the role of hope in transforming places of despair into spaces of resilience.
You can register for the 8AM or 2PM session here: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
You can register for the 8AM or 2PM session here: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
October 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Our next Community of Practice led by Natalie Cunningham will take place on Tuesday 21st October, discussing the role of hope in transforming places of despair into spaces of resilience.
You can register for the 8AM or 2PM session here: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
You can register for the 8AM or 2PM session here: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
Join us for a week of learning brought to you by GDI’s Research for Transformation Lab!
The lab explores and critically reflects on the connection between development research and the 'real world'. This week will facilitate conversations through sessions with GDI academics.
🔗: bit.ly/47jK1FK
The lab explores and critically reflects on the connection between development research and the 'real world'. This week will facilitate conversations through sessions with GDI academics.
🔗: bit.ly/47jK1FK
October 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Join us for a week of learning brought to you by GDI’s Research for Transformation Lab!
The lab explores and critically reflects on the connection between development research and the 'real world'. This week will facilitate conversations through sessions with GDI academics.
🔗: bit.ly/47jK1FK
The lab explores and critically reflects on the connection between development research and the 'real world'. This week will facilitate conversations through sessions with GDI academics.
🔗: bit.ly/47jK1FK