Don't forget to join us next Tuesday 16 December for our last Community of Practice of the semester! Over the past months we've explored many dimensions of resilience. In this final session, we'll discuss how they intersect and interact. All welcome! Sign up here: bit.ly/4rNZRRg

A new book by Seth Schindler (@sethschindler.bsky.social) and Steve Rolf argues that global capitalism is being reshaped by two major and mutually reinforcing trends. How are these trends informing the spiralling rivalry between the US and China? You can read open-access here: bit.ly/4a8pExm

Known as COP30, this year’s UNFCCC climate summit took place a decade after the milestone Paris Agreement at COP21. To make sense of COP30’s negotiations and outcomes, we spoke to Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, who spent time in Belém attending workshops and following negotiations: bit.ly/4pqxFlU

The Horn of Africa has been going through one of the most acute episodes of political and humanitarian crisis in its modern history. @tekgw.bsky.social and Hussein Sulieman write about the devastating wars in Ethiopia and Sudan, and how these have reshaped regional dynamics. 🔗 bit.ly/4oxE5OQ

Organised by Debolina Majumder and Michaela Collord, a workshop taking place 23-24 April 2026 will collectively envision the key features of what we call “labour-led urban development” in the Global South. Accepting abstracts until 15 Jan 2026: bit.ly/4ppGcph

📚 @globaldevinst.bsky.social’s Whitney Banyai-Becker co-authored a chapter on ‘Engaging with knowledge co-production: critical reflections from global doctoral researchers’ in Co-production of Knowledge in Action: Emancipatory strategies for urban equality. buff.ly/e7x8jBS

Listen to this author talk hosted by @globaldevinst.bsky.social with Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia on the #OpenAccess A LONG JOURNEY HOME, recently published with us: bit.ly/3JJgRXK More on the book: bit.ly/4hKX5b1 #MigrationStudies #Anthropology

A new study by GDI's Osman Ouattara and colleagues examines how climate variability affects labour productivity across municipalities in Accra. Read the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What is the future of global development? An in-person conference at @manchester.ac.uk explores: new geopolitics; development architecture in polycrisis; and global development perspectives. ⏰ Deadline: 3 Dec More @globaldevinst.bsky.social news: buff.ly/KNgH8lz

New blog by Osman Ouattara on net zero targets in African cities: www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...

A reminder to join us and @gdi-students-4-pal.bsky.social at 4:30pm today for a lecture by Gilbert Achcar from @soasdevelopment.bsky.social More info below:

📈 Digital technologies are reshaping economies and societies. How do we ensure progress benefits everyone? On 3 December, join leading academics, policymakers and practitioners for a policy dialogue on AI risks, public perceptions & inclusive governance in Southeast Asia 🔽

What is it like to navigate the contemporary development and humanitarian landscape as an alumni? In our latest pod episode, Natalie Cunningham speaks to 3 UoM alumni about their experiences since graduating, and their opinions on the changing sector. Listen here: bit.ly/4nXUsUD

Our next Community of Practice led by Natalie Cunningham will take place on Tues 25th November. In this session, we will be discussing the role of social cohesion in community resilience. You can register to join us at either: 8AM: zoom.us/meeting/regi... 2PM: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

How is AI being used by authoritarian-leaning regimes in the Middle East? A new paper by Arash Beidollahkhani considers how technologies like facial recognition, predictive policing, and digital censorship have transformed surveillance into a mechanism of state control. Read here: bit.ly/3XrMhVN

Join us tomorrow! Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/do-you-hav...

Do you have questions about migration? Tomorrow, 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

The next instalment of our lecture series will take place next Weds 19th Nov in partnership with @gdi-students-4-pal.bsky.social. We will be joined by Gilbert Achcar from @soasdevelopment.bsky.social. All info below:

To give you a taste of how our academics are working behind and beyond the news, we’ve put together a small selection of their interests and project focuses that are frequently overlooked, neglected, or misunderstood in the wider public sphere. Read here: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/gdi-digest-b...

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.

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

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...

"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

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

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...

🇪🇹 #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...

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...

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

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

"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-...

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...

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...

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...

🌍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 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/...

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

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...

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...

📚 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

🆕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...

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

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:...

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

Following the publication of her open-access paper on the same topic and a fantastic episode on the GDI podcast, Elisa Gambino has a new article in @theconversation.com alongside co-author Costanza Franceschini: theconversation.com/chinese-comp...

The Institute for Development Studies at the University of Nairobi is celebrating its 60th Anniversary this week: #IDSat60 GDI's HoI Sam Hickey gave a keynote address calling for a shift in development investment and influence, and new rules of the game in research funding and publishing.

In a new article for @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social, GDI's Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel (@tekgw.bsky.social) writes about the silenced story of urban hunger that has accompanied Tigray's war, famine and genocide. Read here: worldpeacefoundation.org/publication/...

GDI research fellow Arash Beidollahkhani has published a paper on digital activism on X following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran in 2022. The study focuses on how women resist state-imposed hijab laws by deploying hashtags as tools of symbolic disruption. Read here: bit.ly/3KynJHL

And if you want to hear more on this subject, tune into the new @globaldevinst.bsky.social podcast to listen to @drelisagambino.bsky.social being interviewed by Rory Horner 👉 www.buzzsprout.com/2017560/epis...

Based on extensive research in China, Ghana and Kenya, @drelisagambino.bsky.social from @globaldevinst.bsky.social has co-written this article for @theconversation.com on how Chinese construction companies are changing the way they do business in Africa 👉 theconversation.com/chinese-comp...