Event Archive for August 2015

Social and Solidarity Economy

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

In this seminar, Dr Alex Borda-Rodriguez and Professor Hazel Johnson will explore the politics of innovation in social enterprises in Latin America and co-ops and development.

The Unsung Farmer-Inventor

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development seminar presented by Trish O’Flynn (DPP, OU), who will explore the economic, social, and cultural aspects of user innovation in Irish agriculture.

What is Evaluation?: CANCELLED

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development seminar presented by Professor Bob Picciotto on the diverse concepts and models that have shaped international development evaluation.

Reflecting on Migration: 'Man on Ground'

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development seminar presented by Dr Françoise Ugochukwu, who will discuss Man on Ground, a film about Nigerian immigration to South Africa.

Innovative Spending in Health: Unpacking the Global Evidence

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development seminar presented by Dr Julius Mugwagwa (DPP, OU), in which he will discuss the impact of innovations on inclusive and sustainable health delivery.

Limits without Scarcity

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development Leverhulme seminar presented by Professor Giorgos Kallis (SOAS), who will revisit the notion of limits in modern environmentalism.

CANCELLED: Chinese Investments in Myanmar

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development seminar presented by Diane Tang Lee (Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute), who will explore new approaches to public engagement for state-backed investments.

Rethinking the Impact of Openness in Development Contexts

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development seminar presented by Dr Leigh-Anne Perryman (OU), who will explore findings from India and from the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth.

From Band Aid to South Sudan: Dynamics of Celebrity Engagement in Humanitarian Action and International Politics

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development seminar presented by Dr Tanja R Müller (Manchester), who will revisit the Ethiopian famine.

Patent Use in the UK

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development seminar presented by Professor Suma Athreye (Brunel Business School), who will explore the issues surrounding the use of patents.

CANCELLED - new date tbc: Transformation after Civil War

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development seminar presented by Craig Walker (DPP, OU), who will investigate the transition to non-violent means of dealing with group conflict.

Mapping Engineering & Development Excellence in the UK

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development seminar presented by Dr Peter Robbins (DPP, OU), who will report on an analysis of engineering REF2014 impact case studies.

BRICS Banking and the Debate over sub-Imperialism

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development seminar presented by Professor Patrick Bond (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), who will introduce his new book BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique.

Promoting Pastoralist Heritage and Alternative Visions for Development in Northern Kenya

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development seminar (held in conjunction with the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies) presented by Dr Zoe Cormack (Dept of History, OU).

How Can the Global Goals for Sustainable Development Be Effectively Delivered?

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

In this International Development seminar, Valérie Amato will explore new models of multi-stakeholder collaboration and partnerships.

Innovation Systems for a Low-Carbon Economy: The Role for Intermediaries and New Innovation Actors

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The Open University, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP

This ESRC workshop, a collaboration between the OU and the University of Southampton, will examine how best to support the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Towards Inclusive Innovation, Asian Drivers, Global Value Chains and the Role of Commodities: Celebrating Raphael Kaplinsky’s Research

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The Open University, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP

Workshop celebrating the more than forty years Professor Kaplinsky has been researching the economics of innovation, globalisation and development.

Residential Care for Children and Young People at the Intersection of Structural, Symbolic and Physical Violence: A Case Study from the Mexican-American Border Zone

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development Seminar by Sylvia Meichsner, who explores how structural, symbolic and direct physical violence intersect in relation to residential settings of child- and youthcare.

Distribution, Work and Employment: Identifying the Problems

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The Open University, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP

Participants from government, industry and academia are invited to the first seminar of a series which will explore factor income distribution from a plurality of perspectives, including heterodox approaches (such as post-Keynesianism, Kaleckian, radical and feminist economics) and mainstream analyses.

Radical Research and Education in Modern Times: Freirean Approaches to the Renewal of Trade Unions and Global Labour Movements

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development Seminar by Fenella Porter, who will argue that many trade unions need to reform not just their structures but their relationship with workers and the new landscape of work.

To Eradicate or to Legalise? Child Labour Debates and ILO Convention 182

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

The commitment to eliminate child labour has faced intense criticism from societies in which it remains prevalent. Professor Jean Grugel will shed light on the complex impact of global rights-based norms in local contexts.

The Role of Industry Associations in Development and Diffusion of Health Innovations

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development Seminar by Theo Papaioannou, Dinar Kale, Andrew Watkins and Julius Mugwagwa, who unpack the role of industry associations in the diffusion and governance of health innovations and their potential in development.

Green Economy Agendas: NGOs' Divergent Alliances Around Natural Capital

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development Seminar by Les Levidow, who investigates the alliances around approaches to natural capital and how these link environment and development issues.

An Ambitious Fossil Fuel: Emerging Geographies of Liquefied Natural Gas and their Implications for UK Energy Security

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Professor Gavin Bridge will introduce a Global Production Networks approach to 'map' the organisational and geographical structure of the natural gas sector, and comment on its implications for gas security.

International Education and Development (IED) @OU

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Elizabeth Erling, Lore Gallastegi and Leigh-Anne Perryman will discuss their latest research, including studies on increasing the presence of female role models in schools in Malawi and the impact of the TESS-India teacher education project.

Devolution and Federalism in a Post-Referendum UK

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Open University in Scotland, Edinburgh

A workshop to examine the challenges facing the regions and nations of the UK following the referendum on Scottish independence.

Novice Interaction Design in Botswana: Results of a Diary Study

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Helen Sharp and Nicole Lotz will discuss the insights gained for adopting appropriate design pedagogy in different cultures.

Flowers at the Altar of Profit and Power? 30 Years On, the Continuing Disaster at Bhopal

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Steve Tombs will assess the claims and counter-claims around responsibility for the Bhopal disaster, and seek to demonstrate the failure both to provide justice for the victims and to apply it to the perpetrators.

On Progress and Human Development

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Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London School of Economics

At a public lecture organised by the Forum for European Philosophy, Paul Anand (IKD / OU), Catherine Audard (LSE) and Jonathan Wolff (UCL) combine insights from welfare economics and moral philosophy to offer new perspectives on ideas of progress and human development.

A New focus on Results? Improving Basic Services in Ethiopia and Somaliland

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Henrietta Blackmore will talk about her focus on Save the Children’s work in Ethiopia to consider the possible impact and useful responses for NGOs and government partners.

Biotechnologies and Health Innovation: How Are Communities Engaging in South African HIV Vaccine Clinical Trial Sites?

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Mary Upton will use qualitative data to identify the ways in which communities are using local, national and global advocacy networks to gain valued health resources.

Regionalism, Activism and Rights: New Opportunities for Health Diplomacy

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Pía Riggirozzi will analyse regional health diplomacy in South America, and argue that regional organisations can become sites for collective action and pivotal actors in the advocacy of rights to health.

12th Globelics International Conference

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African Union Commission Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

A special session at the 12th Globelics conference

Social Innovation and Public Engagement

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Michael Young Building, OU, Milton Keynes

This PuLSE / IKD workshop will address how the combination of social innovation and digital technologies within different institutional settings can increase social inclusion and sustainable growth.

Impact Investing and Inclusive Business Development in Africa

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Michael Ngoasong and Alex Korda will discuss their research initiative to investigate the significance of impact investing along the investment chain in Africa.

Aid and International Development: Past, Present and Future

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Myles Wickstead will look at the evolution of aid and development thinking since the end of WWII

Inclusive Development in sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Technological Innovations from Emerging Economies

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Andrew Agyei-Holmes, Richmond Atta-Ankomah and David Botchie look at whether technologies from the emerging economies are more amenable to inclusive growth and development.

Sensational(ising) Development: Analysing Media Representation of International Development

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The Open University, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP

Dr Helen Yanacopulos and Dr Martin Scott will focus on the role of celebrities and the 'Africa rising' narrative to analyse how media representations of international development are changing.

Financialisation: Taking Stock and Looking Forward

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The Open University, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP

An IKD interdisciplinary workshop, structured around presentations and a roundtable discussion, will identify the key contributions generated by use of the term 'financialisation', and consider the direction of future research.

Songs on the Battlefield – Biafra's Powerful Weapon

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Françoise Ugochukwu will consider the songs inspired by the Nigerian civil war, to gain a better understanding of why they were noted down by journalists and novelists.

African Pharmaceutical Production: Myth or Reality?

The Scinnovent Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

A seminar presented by IKD member Dr Geoff Banda will focus on the potential of Africa in pharmaceutical production, and highlight the gaps that need to be addressed for this potential to be reached.

Integration in a Decentralising State

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Professor Penny Harvey will give an ethnographic account of discontinuity and creativity in the sanitation infrastructures of the Vilcanota valley, in the context of Peru's commitment to decentralisation and financialisation of state services.

Cultural Traditions, Environmental Conservation and International Development

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Shonil Bhagwat will identify conflicts and opportunities for cooperation between cultural traditions, conservation and development.

Innovating for Local Health: Addressing Local Needs in a Globalised Context

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Jennie Lee Building, OU, Milton Keynes

This IKD workshop will bring together local perspectives on innovation to explore topics such as impact, equity and risk

Convergence: Equitable Development within Planetary Boundaries

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Jenneth Parker will argue that pro-poor policies can be combined with degrowth strategies, and highlight the importance of the global-regional in governance.

Permacultures of Resistance and Transformation? An examination of GEN

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Taking her cue from radical green thought, Dr Lucy Ford will investigate to what extent the Global Ecovillage Network challenges the dominant value logics of global capitalist modernity.

Milton Keynes Peace and Justice Network – Our Perspective

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Robin Baker will introduce the MKPJ network, which works to raise awareness of issues such as world poverty, environmental destruction and the denial of human rights.

Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity & Policy in the Transnational Caribbean

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Leon Wainwright will explore how art practice and museums may support the understanding and formation of sustainable community for the Caribbean and its diaspora.

Workshop on Multisectoral Production Economics

Open University in London, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, NW1 8NP

Read the full programme of this one-day workshop organised by Dr Andrew Trigg, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Open University, or email Louise Topley to register.

The Ethics of War

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Drawing from his recent book, In Defence of War, Professor Nigel Biggar will sketch the history of Christian 'just war' reasoning and analyse three historical cases.

Can Markets Solve Problems? The Prospects of Building a Malaria Vaccine Market

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

After looking at the challenges posed by market interventions in malaria, Dr Daniel Neyland will suggest such interventions raise a number of questions through which moral and economic value become entangled.

Agroecology in Europe: Transforming the Dominant Agro-Food Regime?

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Les Levidow will discuss an agroecology model that seeks to enhance synergies between farm-level resource usage, local activities, agroecosystems and wider systems

Knowledge, Learning and Communication in Community Development

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Chris High will draw on his experience of using participatory video to focus on social learning in development.

Are Small Farmers an Alternative to the African Land Grab?

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

We promote SMEs for industrial development, but not farming. Why? Dr Joseph Hanlon will report on research in Mozambique where giant farms are failing while small commercial farms succeed.

Innogen Institute Launch / ESRC Innogen Centre 10-year Celebration

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Berrill Lecture Theatre, OU, Milton Keynes

Help Innogen OU, with whom IKD works in partnership, celebrate ten years of cutting-edge research on the social and economic impact of life sciences innovation at the Innogen Institute launch

China's Impact on Developing Countries: The Case of South Africa

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

With increasing attention on China’s role in sub-Saharan Africa, Professor Rhys Jenkins will assess the impact on South African manufacturers of Chinese imports in both the domestic and export market.

Innovative Spending in Global Health: A Mission Possible?

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Drawing on evidence from interviews, observations and document reviews, Dr Julius Mugwagwa will discuss innovations in health spending from South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Respectable Bodies: Contesting Gendered Spaces in Global Delhi

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Melissa Butcher will explore debates relating to class, urban transformation and imagined subjectivities through the gendered constructions of space use in Delhi.

Time to Revisit Local Production of Medicines in Low-income Countries? Insights from the Experience of the ARV Factory in Mozambique

Ground Floor, Room 017, Gardiner 1 Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Giuliano Russo will argue that the lack of flexibility of the current drug-financing environment is the main threat to local manufacturing, together with the lack of commitment of local governments to take full advantage of the benefits accruing from local production.

Strategy and Growth in African Entrepreneurship

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Roshan Boojihawon will argue that the study of strategic behaviour is crucial to understanding the elements underpinning growth and offer reflections on developing management theory using case evidences from Ghana and Mauritius.

Health Care Commercialisation: A Core Development Issue

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Room B01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7HX

In Birkbeck's 3rd Annual Development Studies Lecture, Professor Maureen Mackintosh will argue that the organisation of health systems remaining a specialised topic is to the detriment of the understanding of both health care and development.

African Local Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Medicines Supply: What's in the future? (Innogen Knowledge Exchange)

OU (London), 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP

Topics include strengthening local manufacture in East, West and Southern Africa; financing local pharmaceutical production; and whether local pharmaceutical manufacture can be efficient.

EU Criteria for Sustainable Biofuels: Accounting for Carbon, Depoliticising Plunder

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Les Levidow will discuss the controversy surrounding EU biofuel targets, which arguably provide incentives for dispossessing rural communities in the global South through land grabs and agro-industrial production methods.

Distributing Who Gets What and Why: Four Normative Approaches to Global Health Governance

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Garrett Wallace Brown will consider issues of distributive justice and normative approaches to global health.

Child Protection in South Africa

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Lesley Rudd will discuss the work of The Infant Trust, which was set up in 2004 in response to increasing awareness of the high levels of abuse against children in South Africa.

What Do Cities Have to Do with Democracy?

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Clive Barnett will discuss the relationship between urban politics and the dynamics of democratisation, drawing on specifically post-Habermasian critical theory.

Taxing Times: Informal Enterprise and Religious Conflict in Northern Nigeria

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Kate Meagher will examine the extent to which informal enterprise networks and associations, often based on religion or ethnicity, have exacerbated or mitigated religious conflict in the region during the period of the recent Boko Haram terrorist attacks.

'An Adventure that is their Own': E R Chadwick and the Origins of Community Development in Eastern Nigeria and Southern Cameroon (1942-52)

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Room 00-13, Ground Floor Chambers Building, OU, Milton Keynes

Dr Ben Page will argue that Chadwick’s legacy in the origins of community development has been underplayed, and that his experiments as a British colonial district officer in Udi created a template of considerable significance in development practice.

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