Run by the Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development in @OU_FASS at The Open University.
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK
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✨ New from @IntDev_OU
Researchers at @OpenUniversity are working with rural youth in Brazil using Participatory Action Research to explore how agroecology and the solidarity economy can support locally rooted livelihoods and reduce youth out-migration.
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📢 Applications are now open for #PhD studentships within the @IntDev_OU Development Policy and Practice pathway of the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership.
Join DTP Directors to get application advice in a Q&A webinar on 2 Dec 2025.
Find out more: buff.ly/b8LoKVp
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Our next TESS Talk tackles the complicated politics of #climate displacement with a talk by Dr Adom Philogene Heron on "Surviving Storms" in #Dominica.
🗓️Fri 25 April
⏰12-1pm
🖇️eventbrite.co.uk/e/129930090…
@Adom_PH @GunjanSondhi @OU_LD_Team @IntDev_OU
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Join us tomorrow for April’s GCSJ seminar on 'Existential Dis/Connections: Opening up conversations'!
🗓️Friday 11th April 12:00 -13:30
🗨️Speaker: Jane McCarthy
🔗eventbrite.co.uk/e/105833237… to register
@GunjanSondhi @OU_FASS @IntDev_OU
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Excited to be launching our open access book - Cancer Care in Pandemic Times: Building inclusive local health security in Africa and India - in Nairobi today @KEMRI_Kenya @ESRFTZ @IntDev_OU Download the book free from here: link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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The Language & Society Hub at CSGD in collaboration with the MiRCO Research Centre, pre-panel online conversation will explore how linguistic and social research can fuel impactful change .
📅 3rd March🕒13:00 – 15:30 hrs UK/GMT
💻 Online Register Here eventbrite.co.uk/e/unleashed…
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Join us as we discuss how learning teams can support children's learning and well-being. This seminar draws on a research collaboration between CSGD, the Learning Generation Initiative, Kathmandu University Nepal, and EDU Kenya.
29/1/2025 (10:30 - 11:30)
eventbrite.co.uk/e/110450807…
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Calling everyone with a connection to #MiltonKeynes: how well do you know this city?
Our acting co-director @KeetieRoelen and @CSGD colleagues are undertaking research with @ComActMK on #poverty in #MK.
Take the quiz now! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk…
@OpenUniversity @OSC_OU
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Hello #globaldevelopment the 4th edition of the #CompaniontoDevelopmentStudies is here! You can get a discount with the code SMA22!
routledge.com/The-Companion-… Woot woot!
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Part of the #voluntary sector? #OU_CVSL invites you to join their annual conference.
2024's conference is centred around #collaboration and will include keynote speakers from @uwanews @CommunityFound and @WCVACymru
Join for free online or in person:
ow.ly/m7E850RyrL4
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📚Sexual Harassment in the UK Parliament: Lessons from the #MeToo Era by @DrCJulios (2022), draws on an intersectional feminist lens to raise key questions about gender and power dynamics in the modern workplace.
🌐fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen…
@OU_FASS @OU_Library @IntDev_OU
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Glad to share that our UK pandemic study is forthcoming in Science and Public Policy.
A. Watkins, S. Srinivas, D. Wield. "Institutional implications for science and industrial capacity: policy lessons from the UK's pandemic response" @IntDev_OU @UCLSTEaPP @innogen_inst @OU_FASS
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& the required local skills to sustainably run the project, Chiyemura said. He cited a standardgauge, China-backed railway in Nigeria as an analogue to the Ethiopian metro, saddling the government with infrastructure & its associated maintenance costs” @IntDev_OU @ChinaGSProject
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Today, at OU #GraduationCeremony, I received my doctorate for my thesis on case studies of #MedTech innovations for #cancer in India. From the good days to the ‘no-progress’ days, each step led to this moment! #grateful
Congratulations, fellow graduates #OUFamily!
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📚What kind of innovation state matters for social justice? Learning from Poulantzas and going beyond... is a recent publication by @TheoPapaioannou in the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy.
🔗fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen…
@OU_FASS @OU_Library @IntDev_OU
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REDEFINE is going strong! #MyXAnniversary
Thank you to you who listen, share our stories, and contribute to our thinking! #researchproject #globalchina
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I'm excited to share that I have secured funding for 10 Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships, worth a total of £180, 000, to fund Ugandan development practitioners to study for an MSc in Global Development by distance learning at @OpenUniversity @OU_FASS @IntDev_OU
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There's still time to sign up for our seminar on Thursday - Digital-by-default service delivery & the vicious circle of #DigitalPoverty with Dr @Becky_Faith.
📅 Thursday, 14 March
🕐 13:00 - 14:00 GMT
Register: buff.ly/3TlQclN
ALT Event promotional graphic for the CSGD external seminar on 14 March - 'Digital-by-default service delivery & the vicious circle of poverty'.
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I am in awe of these amazing women, their impact on the #silk value chain, and the dramatic changes in their own lives. @AFWNY @AFI_sa @IamMzilikazi @AfricaFashGuide @Joe__Bassey @BoldinAfrica @BemanyaT @africritik @ArapapabySanta
Silk movement!
As we continue to #InspireInclusion of #women, enjoy this video of @icipe @MastercardFdn partners transforming #silk industry in #Ethiopia
@DesignerSilkArt #silkworms #Textile #fashion @farmingfirst @FarmbizAfrica
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Join us for our #GlobalDevelopment seminar series online.
Learn more: wels.open.ac.uk/research/cen…
ALT Advert with details on CSGD seminars in March to May 2024: Digital-by-default service delivery & the vicious circle of digital poverty with Dr Becky Faith Towards a theory of development and development studies of liberation with Dr Sebeka Plaatjie The climate crisis as a long-term threat to learning with Prof Catherine Porter