Events - Global Development

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Understanding the gendered impact of land reformation on resilience: Evidence from southwest Bangladesh

29th May 2024

Jahin Sakkhar

Economics of Adaptation on Climate Change and Natural Disaster: Evidence from Indonesia

22nd May 2024

Ariyo DP Irhamna

Can Participatory Communication make Disaster Risk Management in Malawi more effective?

13th May 2024

John Aubrey Chirwa

Queering Home: Alevi and Kurdish LGBT+ Migrants’ Space-making Practices of Dwelling, Belonging and Attachment in London

8th May 2024

Ezgi Yılmaz

Female Traders and Commodity Queen in the Tomato Value Chain in Ghana: Harmful or Essential?

7th May 2024

Chiara Scheven

The Role of Intergenerational Relations in Food Systems: Evidence from India

25th April 2024

Anuprita Shukla

Exploring The Nexus Of Digital Technology And Sexual Violence In Education: A Qualitative Study Of Female Students’ Experiences In Public Schools In Ilorin-South Nigeria

19th March 2024

Taibat Hussain, DEV Postgraduate Researcher

Liminal legality and the construction of belonging: Aspirations of Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Khartoum

29th February 2024

Tanja Muller - Professor of Political Sociology, School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester

UEA UNESCO Chair’s Education and Development | BOOK LAUNCH: Literacy in the lives of working-class adults in Australia: Dominant versus local voices by Stephen Black

22nd February 2024

Dr Stephen Black, Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney Respondent: Abigail Martinez Renteria, PGR (EDU), University of East Anglia

How is Language Implicated in Navigating Precarity? Language Work Among Young Adults in Great Yarmouth, UK

8th February 2024

Tom Parkerson – Postgraduate Researcher, UEA DEV

Stranger and friend: Numbers as a common frontier among anthropologists and behavioral economists?

30th November 2023

Mario Schmidt – Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale)

Is Boko Haram? Some reflections of former members of Northeast Nigeria’s insurgency on ‘Western’ education.

23rd November 2023

Hannah Hoechner – UEA DEV

GEJ Series | A supercyclone, landscapes of “emptiness” and shrimp aquaculture: the lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India

20th November 2023

Vasudha Chhotray – UEA DEV

GEJ Series | Acequias, water-sharing, and explorations of relational resilience: reflections on the hydrosocial territory of Northern New Mexico.

16th November 2023

Chyna Dixon – UEA DEV

John Innes Foundation Lecture: Climate change and sustainable food systems: pathways and partnerships

14th November 2023

Cynthia Rosenzweig – NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

EDU/DEV Series | How might common practices with international students perpetuate ‘othering’?

9th November 2023

Jenna Mittelmeier – University of Manchester

NISD Series | Young people and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

23rd October 2023

Jim Sumberg – Institute of Development Studies, Brighton

EDU/DEV Series | Migration and Transnationalism: Polish children in post-Brexit England

18th October 2023

Thi Bogossian

Risks, Risk Coping and Resilience amongst Small-Scale Fish Farmers in Kenya: A Gender Inclusive Approach

2nd October 2023

Lucy Njogu

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Ideology and social media in Iran

29th June 2023

Leila Adamzad, DEV, UEA

Current & past experience of educational exclusion under Taliban rule

27th June 2023

Mitra Tanomand, DEV, UEA

Boys Speak-Up: Exploring disengagement from secondary education along Lake Malawi

26th June 2023

Hodges Zacharia, DEV, UEA

Following the light: using ‘brightspots’ to prevent future Amazonian fires

5th June 2023

Grania Power, DEV, UEA

Being an expert witness at the inter-american court of human rights: Anthropological approaches to indigenous strategies for legal empowerment

25th May 2023

Laura Rival , University of Oxford

The Role of Digital Communication Technologies in Sustaining Long-Distance Marriages in The Gambia and its Impacts on the Lives of Women

22nd May 2023

Amie Jammeh, DEV, UEA

The Political Economy of Foreign Aid: An impact analysis of Aid-for-Trade on Nigeria’s Agricultural Exports

18th May 2023

Nafeesat Rabiu-Adebayo – DEV, UEA

‘Living the fishing’: change, wellbeing and justice in Scotlands Buchan fishery

15th May 2023

Heather Gray, DEV, UEA

Megadiverse countries and sustainable development pathways: Case studies from Colombia

4th May 2023

Gaetrano Grilli, ENV, UEA

Intergenerational learning | “Children playing role of mediators to improve their grandparents’ digital literacy and skills”: a collaborative project between Quanxi Town Central Primary School and Shanghai Municipal Institute for Lifelong Education (SMILE) in China.

27th April 2023

Professor Jiacheng Li and Qingru Wang as respondent

Conceptualising rural environmental justice in Europe in an age of climate-influenced landscape transformations

25th April 2023

David Brown – DEV, UEA

Intergenerational learning | “Empowering grandmothers to support girls’ rights and development”: the Grandmother project in Senegal

24th April 2023

Dr. Judi Aubel, Mamadou Coulibaly and Dr. Ulrike Hannemann

Agricultural carbon drawdown: from science, to policy, to business

9th March 2023

Prof. Jacqueline McGlade

Learning through a UNESCO Chair partnership

6th March 2023

Kamal Raj Devkota, Research Centre for Educational Innovation and Development, Tribhuvan University Nepal; Gina Lontoc, University of Santo Tomas, the Philippines; Turuwark Zalalam Warkineh & Abiy Menkir Gizaw, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopi; Ahmmardouh Mjaya, University of Malawi; James Bridge, UK National Commission for UNESCO; Hélène Binesse, Lauren Bouttell, Burcu Evren, Theresa Frey, Catherine Jere, Yann Lebeau, Chris Millora, Anna Robinson-Pant, Qingru Wang, University of East Anglia

Six Issues in Social Impact Evaluation: Reflections on a Decade of Action Research with the Quip

17th February 2023

Prof. James Copestake, University of Bath

Understanding perceived effectiveness of a novel coastal management project: The case of the Bacton-Walcott sandscaping scheme, UK

13th February 2023

Izzy Cotton, DEV, UEA

Inside the War: What is the New Normal for Ukrainians?

7th February 2023

Tina Polek, Centre for Applied Anthropology

“Using your head”: The importance of being “exposed” for educated young women in northern Uganda

2nd February 2023

Sharon Acio, Dorah Adoch, Vicky Alum, James Opolo, & Ann Gumkit Parlaker, Lira University, Uganda

What does Net Zero mean for the UK Agri-Food system?

1st December 2022

Professor Neil Ward

Voices of the Global South: What’s changing for women fishers and fish workers?

29th November 2022

Prof Nitya Rao

Becoming the outskirts: Peripheral Urbanisation in Mandalay, Myanmar

21st November 2022

Francesca Chiu, DEV UEA

Migrant Workers’ Education in China: Changing Discourses and Practices – Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change

17th November 2022

Fusheng Jia, Literacy & Development Group, UEA, Lindsay Howard, Academic Associate, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, UEA

Southern discomfort: In which we interrogate the concept of the South, and highlight its endurance

10th November 2022

Nikita Sud, Oxford University ODID

PhotoVoice: Monkoxi Reconnection. A tapestry of stories of autonomy, identity and climate action from the youth of the Monkoxi

7th November 2022

Iokine Rodriguez DEV-UEA, Markus Martinez-Burman, UEA Alumni-National Geographic Young Explorer, Illeana Pena, Young Indigenous Monkoxi photographer

Schooling, football and managing the future in eastern Uganda

27th October 2022

Floris Burgers, University of East Anglia, Vicky Alum, James Opollo and Ann Gumkit Parlaker, Lira University

Expanding the Digital Public Sphere: Marginalised women’s use of digital media in environmental justice movements

24th October 2022

Kayonaaz Kalyanwala, DEV UEA

Religious schemers: Educated youth as political navigators in eastern Uganda

20th October 2022

Ben Jones, Stella Aguti, Sarah Amongin, Jimmy Ezra Okello and Robert Oluka University of East Anglia and Lira University, Floris Burgers, University of East Anglia

Bridging Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge Systems in Knowledge Co-production with Amazonian Indigenous Communities

17th October 2022

Kaja Hegedic, City College Norwich

Schoolwork: On being educated in eastern Uganda

13th October 2022

Presenters: Ben Jones, University of East Anglia, Laury Ocen, Lira University, Sharon Acio and Dorah Adoch, Lira University

Just Conservation at Villarrica National Park, Chile? Bringing to light one conservation conflict in Peweñentu, Ngulumapu

10th October 2022

Maria Daniela Torres Alruiz, Universidad de Los Lagos

Literacies, Power and Identities in Figured Worlds in Malawi

6th October 2022

Ahmmardouh Mjaya, University of Malawi

When green becomes saffron: wind extraction frontier, resource governance and citizenship regime in borderland India

3rd October 2022

David Singh, DEV UEA & University of Copenhagen

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Agricultural modernization and the (re)shaping of water governance in Shandong, China

30th May 2022

Caixia Man, DEV UEA

National Multidimensional Poverty Measurement in Mexico and Colombia: The Design Processes of the Official Multidimensional Poverty Indices and its Use in Social Policy

24th May 2022

Eun Hye Choi – DEV UEA

Identifying the factors that shape the monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian interventions in the MENA region during COVID-19 Crisis?

23rd May 2022

Khaled Esber – DEV UEA

Environmental Justice and Corporate Activism: The Crossroads between Indigenous Communities and Extractive Industries

19th May 2022

Samuel Jones, DEV UEA

Examining the role of water sharing in producing adaptive capacity: A study of situated vulnerabilities and resilience in New Mexico’s acequias

16th May 2022

Chyna Dixon, UEA

Determinants of School Attendance at the Secondary Education in India

9th May 2022

Jiumei Dang, DEV UEA

‘Decolonising’ in the Development/Aid Technocracy: Can we ‘checklist’, ‘diversify’ and/or ‘localise’ our way to a more pluriversal world?

5th May 2022

Dr. Lata Narayanaswamy – University of Leeds

Ground Reports from India’s Development Story

28th April 2022

Mayank Aggarwal, Journalist

Exorcism Untangled: investigating Deliverance ceremonies among middle-class Pentecostal Congregation in Johannesburg, South Africa

25th April 2022

Eirini Athanasopoulou, UEA DEV

Using Drama to Decolonise the Pedagogical Practice

21st March 2022

Ralph Yarrow, LDC UEA, and Iokine Rodriguez Fernandez, DEV UEA

Ethical Issues in Qualitative Data Collection Online during Public Emergencies

10th March 2022

Helen Campbell-Pickford, UEA

Violence and wellbeing in the context of #FeesMustFall: a rapid photovoice project with student activists from South Africa

7th March 2022

Prof Thierry M. Luescher, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town; Dr Keamo Morwe, University of Venda; Dr Angelina Wilson Fadiji, University of Pretoria; Mr Tshepang Mahlatsi, University of the Free State

Learning and social movements: global perspectives from youth activists

28th February 2022

Shiyam Galyon, Syrian and Anti-war activist; Hector Ulloa, Honduran Human Rights Activists and President, SAIH; Sugreeya Wannayuwat (a.k.a. Mindmint), Thai Student Activist and co-founder of Free Gender Movement

BOOK LAUNCH | Pluriverse of peace in Tolima: systematisation of a transformative action research

17th February 2022

Iokiñe Rodriguez & Cristina Sala, DEV UEA

The dynamics of political violence in Mount Elgon, Kenya

14th February 2022

Christine Olukhanda, UEA

Agroecology through a critical agrarian studies lens

10th February 2022

Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Trent University

Parents’ perspectives and practices around the schooling of children in rural Northern Nigeria

3rd February 2022

Bukola Oyinloye, The Open University

Volunteering, learning and power: the experiences of young refugees in Uganda

19th January 2022

Matt Baillie Smith, Northumbria University

Understanding extreme poverty in Rutom through disaggregation and dynamism

13th December 2021

Jean Cader, UEA

Integrating social media analysis into conflict research. A case study of Russian war in Donbas

24th November 2021

Alena Mizinova, UEA

The Translation of Growth into Poverty Reduction and Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do Institutions Matter?

22nd November 2021

Baimba Korona, UEA

The future of farming: Who will produce our food?

10th November 2021

Ken Giller, Wageningen University

Social justice in the head? Youth activism and critical citizenship in the Taiwanese Sunflower movement

28th October 2021

Spyros Themelis, UEA and Tao-Chen Hsu, National Tsinghua University in Taiwan

Remaking citizenship? German Business sector engagement and refugee integration

20th October 2021

Tanja Muller, University of Manchester

Into The Blue: Situating Human-Ocean relationships in International Development

13th October 2021

Eddie Allison, World Fish

Power Shift: The Global Political Economy of Energy Transitions

8th October 2021

Peter Newell, University of Sussex

Understanding rural Afghanistan?

6th October 2021

Adam Pain, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit & Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Seed systems, technology and dimensions of risk for Ugandan smallholders

27th September 2021

Matthew Heaton, DEV UEA

Waging labour with life: moral economies of work, cultivating-credit, and the experience of inequality in highland Odisha

24th March 2021

Sam Wilby, London School of Economics

Negotiating precarity: governance and agency in hydropower development in the Eastern Himalayan margins of India

15th March 2021

Rinchen Lama, UEA

Zulm as an experience of the repressive authoritarian state: A case study of downtown Srinagar

10th March 2021

Touseef Mir, UEA

Writing as an activism: the Barefoot Research Initiative in Nepal

8th March 2021

Sohan Prasad Sha, Amina Singh, Martin Chautari

Vanilla, Value and Security in Aid

1st March 2021

Stephanie Shankland, UEA

Optimising constructed wetlands for sewage treatment, water quality and biodiversity

24th February 2021

Jonah Tosney, Norfolk Rivers Trust, Richard Cooper, UEA, Rob Cunningham, Anglian Water

Creative learning practices for food and nutrition security amongst indigenous groups in India

22nd February 2021

Nivedita Narain, Sayonee Chatterji, Shubhashree Shankar

Creative methods in migration research

17th February 2021

Jeanette Baxter, Anglia Ruskin University

Amazonian Indigenous Art and Urban Migration: The Battles of Place, Dignity and a Future

10th February 2021

Giuliana Borea, The University of Essex and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

A political settlement and accountability perspective on what affects the distribution of teachers in Malawi

8th February 2021

Asma Zubairi, OECD

Embedding equity into resilience assessment: Impacts of the Gibe III dam, SW Ethiopia

3rd February 2021

Jenny Hodbod, Michigan State University

Food security solutions: making the staple grass pea safe, and building farmer trust and uptake

1st February 2021

Peter Emmrich, Norwich Institute of Sustainable Development

The Hidden Racism in Economics

20th January 2021

John Komlos, The University of Munich

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Wildlife Conservation and Indigenous Communities: running INGOs in a shifting global climate

16th December 2020

John Andrew Burton

Supporting Factors and Barriers to Active Citizenship for Adult Learners in China, Costa Rica, Kuwait and Russia

9th December 2020

Ashley Stepanek Lockhart, UNESCO

Lockdown, livelihoods and migration in rural south India: Rethinking patronage and care at the time of Covid-19

2nd December 2020

Geert De Neve, The University of Sussex

Audit as Confession: the instrumentalisation of ethics for management control

25th November 2020

Caitlin Scott, UEA

Digital Divide: Dividing Communities – Reaching Tribal Communities in Odisha during COVID19

23rd November 2020

Monika Neilsen, UNICEF

Towards a geopolitical ecology of lithium in the South American Triangle

18th November 2020

Daniela Sanchez, Newnham College and University of Cambridge

Well-being from ecosystem services in Bangladesh

11th November 2020

Helen Adams, Kings College London

Using smartphones in remote participatory video research

28th October 2020

Sonja Marzi, London School of Economics

Inheriting education instead of land: Educational meanings and commitments among the Bagisu of Eastern Uganda

26th October 2020

Floris Burgers, UEA

It is Christ or corruption in Papua New Guinea: a view from afar

21st October 2020

Anthony Pickles, UEA

Family literacy and indigenous learning: perspectives from Malawi, Nepal, Ethiopia and the Philippines

19th October 2020

GRTA Family Literacy project team

The contradictions of an aspiring developmental state: energy boom and bureaucratic independence in Rwanda

14th October 2020

Benjamin Chemouni, Université Catholique de Louvain

Experiences of publishing after submitting the PhD: publish or perish?

12th October 2020

Hussam Hussein, University of Oxford

Why do farmers’ perceptions matter for land restoration? Considering findings from Ghana on farmer-managed natural regeneration

7th October 2020

Matt Kandel, University of Southampton

My PhD Journey: Some Shared Experiences

5th October 2020

Jiamin Ou, University of Utrecht

Learning (and lack of it) in a Network of Organizations: Knowledge Construction in an NGO Intervention in Schools in Rajasthan, India

29th November 2019

Helen Campbell Pickford, UEA

Creative and digital storytelling in international education research

25th October 2019

Alison Buckler

Urban Youth’s Learning From Everyday Life in Kathmandu: Arts Based Narrative Inquiry

2nd October 2019

Suresh Gautam