Events

Duncan Green (LSE, From Poverty to Power, How Change Happens) reflects on how advocacy, campaigns and influencing can do better at bringing about the changes we seek.

This presentation will outline the role played by the case of Palestine-Israel within the field of settler colonial studies.

Join YESI and IGDC for a series of workshops that will bring researchers together to share and mobilise social science approaches, methods and perspectives to meet the challenges posed by climate change at the local and global scale. 

Participatory action research recognises the value of experiential knowledge and local priorities by involving community members as active participants and co-designers.

Join YESI and IGDC for a series of workshops that will bring researchers together to share and mobilise social science approaches, methods and perspectives to meet the challenges posed by climate change at the local and global scale. 

Join our YESI International Fellows Seminar with Edmond Totin, Department of Tropical Forestry, National University of Agriculture, Benin

Join us for a talk on the preliminary results from a pilot study for the World Peace Foundation & US Institute of Peace

Get ready for Anarchy & Activism - Disrupting Disability, all about challenging norms, breaking barriers, and creating change together.

Join our seminar with Les Monaghan where he will talk about what holds us together and photographing the unseen and unheard

Join our joint YESI/IGDC International Fellows Seminar with Dr Abena Boakye, from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.

Join IGDC, CAHR, and the Department of Politics & International Relations as we explore the political and legal reflections on the Israel-Palestine conflict

Join us for the second webinar in a series organised by the IGDC and the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria, South Africa

Join IGDC and William Harnden in person for his talk on Connect Development.

Join IGDC and William Harnden in person for his talk on Connected Development.

Join us for the first webinar in a series organised by the IGDC and the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria, South Africa

What can discourse analysis reveal into the development of connective infrastructures, past and present?

Join the newly established PhD student collective at IGDC for the first lecture in their semesterly seminar series.

Join the newly established PhD student collective at IGDC for the first lecture in their semesterly seminar series.

IGDC is hosting a lecture on "Towards decoloniality and justice: when the past pushes unfinished into the present"

Join us for the fifth Ventana Conference, they theme is navigating uncomfortable contradictions: decolonial routes to pluriversality

Join us for the fifth Ventana Conference, they theme is navigating uncomfortable contradictions: decolonial routes to pluriversality

Join IGDC for the Lake Chad Basin and Sahel (LCB&S) Security and Development Early Career Knowledge Exchange Conference

Join IGDC and YESI’s Climate Change Network for a joint workshop on Climate Neutrality and Adaptive Behaviour

Join UFBA and IGDC for a film screening on audiovisual community collaborations in Bahia, Brazil.

Join the IGDC and the ISC in celebrating their global health research partnership

Will 2023 be the year in which historic responsibility for climate change is finally acknowledged by the world’s major polluting nations?

Join ARISE and CHORUS consortia for a webinar to discuss the importance of employing an intersectional and gendered lens when looking at health and wellbeing in informal settlements.

IGDC is hosting a seminar on "Inequalities in knowledge systems"

IGDC and the Department of History are hosting a webinar on “The Anthropocene Globe”

IGDC and ISRF are hosting a webinar on “Rethinking recovery in Latin American landscapes: knowledges, conservation and justice.”

We are delighted to announce a one-day online workshop of invited speakers from the field of Business for Peace at the School for Business and Society, University of York.

The private and public sectors, civil society, academia, NGOs must all come together to ensure that we realise the ambition enshrined in the various SDGs. Goal#17 in effect is the load-bearing goal of the SDGs.

Join us on Wednesday 5 October when Professor Naomi Hossain will give a lecture on the moral economy of the global crowd

Hear from researchers working on African postcolonial and/or decolonial processes. We are looking to share and compare the experiences in these two continents.

Join us to explore the effectiveness, and potential consequences, of the framing of planetary environmental challenges as ‘emergencies’.

Our speakers with backgrounds in Brazilian Environment and Society studies, reflect how diverse scientific fields are tackling these crises.

Dr Saba Joshi chairs a roundtable with four scholars and development practitioners discussing their work relating to LGBTQI inclusion in International Development

Using recent British political developments as a jumping-off point, this roundtable brings together experts to challenge assumptions about links between security, migration, and development made by Britain, the EU and beyond.

Join us for a lively panel discussion presenting the history and principles of Thai Baan and discussing the process of conducting Thai Baan research using two case studies that have applied Thai Baan research approaches.

Co-hosted by Research Theme Champions and IGDC, engaged scholars from the Global South who are also involved in the COP present their perspectives on what COP means for future research agendas and research priorities.

For this IGDC Research Away Day, Chris West (SEI-Y) will introduce the University’s work on the Sustainability Code of Practice to date, and we will reflect on the implications of adopting more sustainable research practices for the IGDC community

Alex Jacobs, Director of the Joffe Charitable Trust discusses how the UK and its network of offshore centers play a central role in global illicit financial flows.

A panel of expert speakers provide their unique professional and personal experiences and perspectives to discuss the concept of hope and its role in human society.

Professor Heaven Crawley explores the challenges of ‘walking the talk’ when it comes to decentering migration research.

Dr Ariadne Collins discusses how de-centring whiteness from its position as an automatic, oppositional counterpart to blackness can make space for greater recognition of the role played by the environment in processes of racialization.

Dr Tuhiwai Smith discusses decolonising research methods and provides reflections regarding the practical conduct of social science research methods as well as her best-selling book Decolonising Methodologies Research and Indigenous Peoples

British Institute for East Africa collaborate with the IGDC, University of York, University of Cambridge and University College London for a UKRI-funded online conference and COP26 Workshop on Building Transformational Pathways to Adaptation

The Urbanisation and Health Network in collaboration with ''CHORUS'' (Community-Led Effective Urban Health Systems), present talks and a panel discussion with speakers from multiple institutions around improving health in urban areas

Tallulah Lines (IGDC) and Jayanthi Lingham (WICID) chair a panel exploring the impact of unpaid care work on women and girls by discussing how feminist and women’s movements challenge non-recognition and the challenges presented by Covid-19.

In the context of Black History Month in the United States, Professor Henrice Altink and Dr Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven host a round table to explore how race is dealt with across three distinct disciplines.

IGDC's Research Away-Day discusses the theme of Hope following a discussion around inclusive research

Dr Sara De Jong will discuss and explore how migrants and refugees have been affected by Covid-19 with our guest speakers Emily Arnold-Fernandez, Niamh Ni Bhriain, John Grayson, Dr Adriana Marcela Velasquez Morales and Dr Pia Riggirozzi.

Papiya Mazumdar is joined by a panel of speakers discussing the current health system constraints in low middle income countries and will provide their opinions on the present and future agendas in global health initiatives.

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven chairs a panel discussion surrounding the economic and financial consequences of the current Covid-19 pandemic on women and how it has exacerbated gender inequality.

Jessica Omukuti discusses COVID-19's projected impact and climate justice implications as well as exploring the economic downturn from emerging from COVID-19 adversely impacting communities and households in the Global South.

Christine Wallace chairs a panel discussion to explore the impact of Covid-19 on the Global Development industry and discuss the challenges presented by Covid-19 to the business of development.

Dr Philip Roberts and Dr Indrajit Roy discuss the implications of global power shifts that are likely to emerge due to Covid-19 with our invited guest speakers, Dr Harsh Mander and Dr Sabrina Fernandes.