Keep up to date with the latest news and events from around the department and the wide-ranging projects our staff and students get involved with. More news throughout the School of Government and Society.
Latest news
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- The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell, Conservative MP for Sutton Coldfield and former Secretary of State for International Development, visited the International Development Department to meet staff and students.
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- Wednesday 6th June 2018
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- On 23 April 2018, the International Development Department of the University of Birmingham organised a workshop that brought together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from different universities across the UK with researchers and practitioners from NGOs.
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- Wednesday 9th May 2018
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- Paul Jackson writes for Social Sciences Birmingham: The Star Wars franchise is one of the most successful sets of films in the history of cinema.
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- Tuesday 8th May 2018
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- At this seminar event, Peace presents her research on the dynamics of violence during and after conflict and the efforts that state and non-state actors make to address this violence.
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- Wednesday 2nd May 2018
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- Philipp Lottholz has been awarded the Christiane Rajewsky Prize for young scholars by the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies for his PhD thesis on 'post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia'
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- Friday 27th April 2018
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- Nic Cheeseman writes for The Conversation: There are three important ways in which democratic rules constrain African leaders.
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- Tuesday 17th April 2018
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- David Hudson, Jennifer vanHeerde-Hudson and Paolo Morini write for DevCommsLab: Humanitarian campaigns have long been criticized for the tendency to use negative, degrading and disempowering imagery.
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- Tuesday 17th April 2018
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- Raquel Da Silva has been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for her work: Torn between the West and ISIS: the interplay between narratives of intervention and statebuilding and the life stories of former foreign fighters
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- Monday 9th April 2018
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- How do armed conflicts influence crime? While previous studies have identified a mutually reinforcing "cycle" between armed conflict and crime, our knowledge about the precise conditions under which rebellion shapes criminal behaviour during conflict remains limited.
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- Friday 23rd March 2018
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- At this seminar event, the author, Ed Laws, presented the main findings of the report.
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- Thursday 15th March 2018
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- Two Commonwealth Shared Scholarships available for MSc study, deadline 31 March 2018.
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- Friday 9th March 2018
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- IDD staff received awards for policy advancement and outstanding early-career researchers.
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- Thursday 8th March 2018
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- Two Commonwealth Shared Scholarships available for MSc study, deadline 31 March 2018.
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- Monday 5th March 2018
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- Our Executive Apprenticeship programme leads, Dr Stephen Jeffares and Dr Louise Reardon, will be hosting a webinar to explain more about how your organisation could benefit from INLOGOV's new Executive Apprenticeship.
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- Friday 23rd February 2018
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- Case study presented by Dr Caroline Upton, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester
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- Friday 23rd February 2018
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- Case study presented by Dr Caroline Upton, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester
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- Friday 23rd February 2018
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- Read the latest policy brief by Fiona Nunan and Mary Menton on how renewable natural resources can be effectively governed, delivering on equity and sustainability.
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- Thursday 8th February 2018
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- Matteo presented his most recent book published with Oxford University Press: "Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis".
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- Monday 15th January 2018
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- Dr Alice Evans, Lecturer in International Development at King's College London researches inequality, social change and global production networks. Using ethnographic research from Latin America, her talk on "Politicising Inequality: The Power of Ideas" explores how social mobilisation can catalyse greater government commitment to socially inclusive economic growth.
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- Thursday 21st December 2017
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- With a change of approach, reparations could reinforce a long-term process of gendered citizenship-building instead of treating women as dependent and unequal victims, writes Sane Weber for LSE blog.
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- Monday 18th December 2017