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.
Latest news
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- IDD Alumnus Besnik Tahiri, has been appointed the first Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo.
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- Wednesday 1st July 2020
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- Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham Nic Cheeseman writes in the Conversation UK.
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- Wednesday 27th May 2020
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- By Dr Claire Mcloughlin & Professor David Hudson, International Development Department.
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- Wednesday 27th May 2020
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- By Professor David Hudson, Director, Developmental Leadership Program, International Development Department.
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- Thursday 7th May 2020
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- Apply now for this exciting research position. For informal enquiries, please contact Alana Tomlin on A.Tomlin@bham.ac.uk
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- Monday 3rd February 2020
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- Read the piece publication 'Open Democracy' co-authored by Sanne Weber with Dr Julia Zulver (published on 10 January 2020).
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- Monday 3rd February 2020
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- Read the new publication by Fiona Nunan and Dražen Cepić in Fisheries Research.
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- Monday 3rd February 2020
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- IDD congratulates MPA alumnus, Mohamed Elshabik, for his appointment as Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Social Development in Sudan.
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- Monday 27th January 2020
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- The Handbook will bring together insights and critical analysis from diverse approaches and experiences, learning from research and practice over the last twenty years.
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- Friday 17th January 2020
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- Speaker: Dr Pablo Yanguas (Honorary Research Fellow at University of Manchester and international development consultant)
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- Wednesday 10th October 2018
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- Model NATO 2018 was one of the most valuable experiences of my life. As a mature student doing a masters in International Development, doing something so politically focused was out of my comfort zone.
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- Tuesday 18th September 2018
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- Professor Fiona Nunan writes in The Conversation: Urgent measures need to be adopted to prevent corruption linked to illegal fishing activity in an around Lake Victoria.
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- Wednesday 12th September 2018
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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