York International Development Network: Events Update

Posted on 25 October 2016

Events Update

Thank you very much to those of you who attended the ECR/ Research Student Welcome event. It was a great opportunity to introduce the York International Development Network and to hear about the interesting research that current Early Career Researchers and Research Students are undertaking at York. If you have any questions for any of the speakers from the event, please do not hesitate to get in touch with them using the contact details below:

‘Religion, International Health and Medical Aid: Colonial and Post-Colonial Development in Ghana, 1919-1983’
Ben Walker (bbw501@york.ac.uk)
Centre for Global Health Histories, Department of History

‘Education for Global Justice and Citizenship Engagement’
Eleanor Brown (eleanor.brown@york.ac.uk)
Centre for Education and Social Justice, Department of Education

‘An/other history of Development’
Arun Kumar (arun.kumar@york.ac.uk)
York Management School

‘Precarity and subjectivation as drivers of labour-related vulnerability: The case of self-employment’
Enrico Reuter (enrico.reuter@york.ac.uk)
Department of Social Policy and Social Work

‘Perspectives on a pilot: exploring stakeholder framings, experiences and impacts of multi-scale forest conservation and development pilot projects’
Kate Massarella (khm510@york.ac.uk)
Stockholm Environment Institute- York, Environment Department

‘Rethinking the Political Economy of Regionalism in Africa: Shifting Narratives in the EAC'S Regionalism-Development Nexus’
Peter O'Reilly (pjor501@york.ac.uk)
Department of Politics

Next Event: Rethinking Urban Vulnerability and Poverty in Asia

For our next event we are delighted to welcome Dr. Richard Friend (Environment Department) to deliver a seminar on ‘Rethinking Urban Poverty and Vulnerability in Asia’. Richard’s presentation will be followed by detailed discussion of a bid he is putting together for the ESRC-DFID Development Frontiers Research Fund 2016-17 call. More information about this call can be found below, as can the link for Eventbrite tickets for the event, which will take place on Thursday 17th November from 2pm-3pm in the Research Centre for Social Sciences Training Suite (YH/001b).

If you are interested in hearing more about the network please get in touch (idn@york.ac.uk).

Best wishes,
York International Development Network

Eventbrite Tickets: rethinking Urban Vulnerability and Poverty in Asia

ESRC-DFID Development Frontiers Research Fund 2016-17

This call will support innovative, interdisciplinary research that is focused on new ways to tackle the challenges encountered at the intersections between poverty, environmental sustainability and conflict/fragility in specific developing country contexts. (Closing date: 26 January 2017).

York International Development Network leaflet (PDF , 338kb)