Decolonising research
IGDC’s commitment to decolonising global development research must be understood as a fundamental challenge to how we work - demanding that we question our approach to research and to problematise the assumptions and perspectives that we bring to global development.
To support the research community to rise to this challenge, IGDC develops partnerships, events, workshops and toolkits exploring how research can be decolonised in practice.
Explore our research and resources below.
IGDC-UFBA Decolonising Development Research podcast series
The IGDC has received funds from the University of York’s Enhancing Research Culture fund to develop a podcast series in partnership with UFBA on the theme of decolonizing global development research.
This project will develop a series of three 30-minute podcasts and associated blogs which explore and explain methods for decolonising global development research. Our goal is to present experiences of research practices that respond to histories of coloniality and epistemic injustice.
Why do we need to decolonise global development research?
Uma Kothari’s Towards decoloniality and justice
IGDC Annual Lecture 2023
In conversation with Dr Linda Tuhiwai Smith
The groundbreaking book 'Decolonising Methodologies Research and Indigenous Peoples' (1998) by Dr Linda Tuhiwai Smith is not only an international bestseller, but a foundational resource for critiques of the existing relationship between imperialism, dominant approaches to scientific research and Indigenous knowledge systems.
Guide to good practice for inclusive research in global development
This guide is intended primarily as a resource to help researchers in the Global North consider how to organise and conduct research with Global South partners.
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