In this Between the Lines podcast, IDS Director Peter Taylor speaks to Margarita Gómez from Southern Voice and Kaia Ambrose from IDRC. They discuss why equity in research collaboration matters and talk about the challenges in achieving it. 📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/sklyixj1ls

#DSA2026 Call for Papers! 🚨 One more day left to submit! 🚨 📅 8-10 July 2026 📍 Hybrid at @ucddublin Reimagining Development: Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World ⏳ Deadline: 30 December 2025 More info & submission details: buff.ly/xJkOMT3

First time writing for Broadstreet blog! With @apvjustino.bsky.social and @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, we wrote about the Special Issue just published at Comparative Political Studies: www.broadstreet.blog/p/legacies-o...

Hickel (@jasonhickel.bsky.social) answers the horizontalists: degrowth needs more than ZADs & assemblies to transform the economy. His response on democratic ecosocialism, delinking & Global South liberation. Read his full text 👇

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The road to achieving SDG 1 - ‘No Poverty’ - is a challenging one. But in 2025, we’ve seen reasons to have hope in this journey. Visit our website to find out more about what OPHI has been up to this year: ophi.org.uk/ophi-news (1/4)

The best time to stop a war is before it starts. This is done by investing in peace rather than lining the pockets of the arms industry. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

In this Between the Lines podcast, IDS Director Peter Taylor speaks to Margarita Gómez from Southern Voice and Kaia Ambrose from IDRC. They discuss why equity in research collaboration matters and talk about the challenges in achieving it. 📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/qz3hywmlxx

📢The most read IGDC blog post with 411 views is: The environmental impact of mass tourism: A case study of Negril, Jamaica, 1970s-2023 You can read the full blog here: blogs.york.ac.uk/igdc/2024/04...

There is still time to apply for a funded #PhD in Development Studies @openuniversity.bsky.social ⏰ Deadline 7 January Get in touch with the academics to discuss your research ideas! buff.ly/paGsDP8

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🚨📃New article alert: Shocking social safety: Evidence from violence and drought in North-east Nigeria' This paper examines the combined effects of conflict and climate shocks on the social safety nets of households in fragile settings. 👉Read full article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

​Progressive yet unfair: the case of informal taxes in the education sector in the DRC Informal taxes in DRC’s education sector: richest 20% pay 80% of the burden—progressive, but not equitable when access & quality are factored in. 👉 Read more: https://loom.ly/ZmcaKII #Education #DRCongo #Equity

🧵 On our "Share your decolonising story" project ⬇️

👀 Looking for something to read over the weekend and holidays? Find it here ⬇️

📅 Save the date! 20 January 2025, 15.00 CET Happy to announce our first event in January next year! www.eadi.org/news-2/a-bit...

As the year comes to a close, it is time to say "thank you" to our community and wish everybody a good festive season and smooth transition into the New Year!

How We Push Back Against Fear – Lessons from Harvard “We couldn't guarantee that nothing bad would happen, but having more collective power could make us safer and give us more choices.” Brilliant blog by Stephanie Wong from @actbuildchange.com buff.ly/fQYslDD

We’re one year closer to 2030. What role can MPIs play in achieving the SDGs & beyond? To make progress we need to make sure we don’t address sustainable development issues - including the SDGs - in silos, but as interconnected challenges. Find out more: ophi.org.uk/national-mpi...

📑 Nouvelle publication ! "L’Afrique dans son rapport à la Chine : un partenariat générateur de surendettement", par P. Plane 🔍 Cette situation est sous-estimée en raison du manque de transparence sur les montants et conditions de financement. 👉 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 : ferdi.fr/publications...

⚠️ Only two more days to submit! ➡️ Don't miss our flagship event at @iobua.bsky.social next year! ✅ Choose from 44 seed and 22 harvest panels ⏰ is 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️! www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

🌐 We’re improving our GIGA website – and we need your input! What matters most to you about what we offer? 👉 Take 5 minutes and share your thoughts in our survey: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Peace can reshape how local governments are funded. New UNU-WIDER research on Colombia’s 2016 peace deal finds that PDET municipalities saw a fiscal boost several years after implementation began—driven by ~30% higher per-capita property tax revenue vs similar neighbours.🔗 go.unu.edu/WBmon

📢The most watched video on our YouTube channel this year with 4,764 views is: Decolonising Methods and Methodologies - Dr Linda Tuhiwai Smith! You can watch it on our YouTube channel here youtu.be/vLqr2dsNmXo

In crisis settings, AI promises access to education, but at what cost? This week’s NORRAG blog (cross-posted from a UNESCO IdeasLAB think piece) explores the ethical paradox of using AI in education amid conflict, displacement, and trauma. Read more: buff.ly/RNDvJ7x #EducationInEmergencies

Our last newsletter this year went out, featuring @unu-wider.bsky.social's new open access book on trade, the @igdc.bsky.social annual lecture on Capitalism, Conflict and Climate Emergency and much more from us and our community! mailchi.mp/eadi/nl3dece...

Apply by Friday, 19 December, for a chance to participate in the @miasa-ug.bsky.social Publishing Workshop! 👇

"A key finding of my dissertation is that agricultural labour can never be proportionally compensated in a capitalist political economy" www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2473

How gender-transformative teaching could help improve boys’ engagement and learning @developmentuea.bsky.social Read more: buff.ly/TTKFghN

Applications are open for the OPHI Summer School 2026. Do you currently work in - or want to gain skills in - multidimensional poverty measurement? Apply now to join us on between 20 - 31 July 2026 at Universidad Latina, San José, Costa Rica. Apply now: ophi.org.uk/event/ophi-s...

"I consider my story as reflecting a scholarly transition from an empirical, positivist and Eurocentric framework to an advocacy for alternative knowledges, pluriversality, and decoloniality" This 📙 by @murainal.bsky.social wraps up our decolonising stories project www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2480

"Our results do not imply that rural communities should be left alone. On the contrary, we found that they are doing a tremendous job of achieving forest regeneration." ✍️ From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2468

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel Decolonizing Academic Ecologies: Hegemony, Crisis, and Solidarity Conv. by Richard Hemraj Toppo and Gert Van Hecken (@iobua.bsky.social) www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

"The result is an aid system characterized by institutional inertia, coexisting uneasily with a broader, rapidly expanding and fluid field of development cooperation lacking shared norms and standards" ✍️ From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2409

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel Water Governance under Pressure: Overcoming Socio-Ecological Barriers and Building Adaptive Pathways Conv. by Martin Mickelsson & Roland Barthel (Univ. of Gothenburg) and Catharina Landström (Chalmers University) 📍 @iobua.bsky.social www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

How have countries successfully reduced unemployment, and what lessons travel across contexts? New #SATIED research synthesises international experience and examines labour market reforms, trade-offs & what this evidence implies for South Africa’s labour market. Learn more: go.unu.edu/nOzZW

Are you going to #DSA2026? It’s not too early to start planning travel logistics and thinking ahead! Here’s 5 top tips for those new to visiting Ireland buff.ly/tgXpnOi

Avoiding climate catastrophe means transforming our economies fast. The real question is not whether we need a green transition, but who will pay for it, and on what terms. www.tni.org/en/article/g...

"European colonial policies and interventions in forestry, agriculture and mining in the so-called ‘tropics’ were geared to extractivism and profits. Their social consequences were often devastating, accompanied by slavery, racialised discrimination, violence..." www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2402

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel The Coloniality of (G)local Solutions: Re-Imagining Futures Conv. by Richard Hemraj Toppo & Pierre Merlet (@iobua.bsky.social) and Manish Surin (@sussex.ac.uk) www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel EU Green Deal and Just Transition in the Global South Conv. by @luismah.bsky.social (@cies-iscte.bsky.social), Gonzalo Vargas Forero (Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota) & Jirayudh Sinthuphan (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok) www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel Innovating Methods to Find (G)local Solutions for Global Challenges Conv. by Laura Camfield (@kings-sga.bsky.social) & @keetieroelen.bsky.social (@oucsgd.bsky.social) 📍 @iobua.bsky.social www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

📢 New Policy Brief: Uganda’s 2026 elections aren’t just about who wins—they reveal succession politics in a late-Museveni era. What does this mean for Uganda’s future? 👉 Read the full brief here: https://loom.ly/I6t51IQ #UgandaElections #SuccessionPolitics #IOBResearch #PolicyBrief

In @globalpolicy.bsky.social, @andypsumner.bsky.social & @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social argue that the old assumptions about who sets development policy norms, who pays, and who decides what counts as “cooperation” no longer seem to hold. 📄 www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/17/12/2...

🎉Event recording: Global Politics and Development WG 'Global development cooperation at a crossroads - ground rules for partnership in a fragmented world?' held on 28 November joint with EADI 🌎 Find and watch the recording here! 👉 https://ow.ly/Q1jM50XKGRt Andrea Ordonez Andy Sumner

Why is it so difficult to spark a transition towards broadly acknowledged solutions in sustainable and non-extractive agriculture? ➡️ Because it questions the way our economies and societies are organised www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2473

On this day 15 years ago, the Arab Uprisings started in Tunisia. How should we understand the root causes of the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa? www.tni.org/en/dossier/t...

"AI is a techno-political artefact and socio-technical assemblage of techniques, motivations, and ideologies. This is an important point to consider for international development and humanitarian actors and practitioners. ✍️ From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2235

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel: From Smallholders to ‘Digital Farmers’? Platforms, Digital Devices and Agrarian Developments Convened by Oane Visser (ISS), Matthew Canfield (University of Leiden) and Fabio Gatti (@w-u-r.bsky.social) 📍 @iobua.bsky.social www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel Global Cchallenges of Food System Transformation: Bridging Dichotomies Conv. by Oane Visser (ISS), Ina Lehmann (VU Amsterdam), Joseph Awetori Yaro (Univ. of Ghana), Dominic Glover (@ids.ac.uk) & Marijn Faling (ISS) 📍 @iobua.bsky.social www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...