Webinars

Engendering Development in the Global South

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On 24th May 2023 Dr Ece Kocabıçak, a Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University, was joined by Dr Anjana Thampi (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Dr Irene Selwaness (Associate Professor at Cairo University) for this seminar.

Book Launch: Critical Approaches To Heritage For Development

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Book editors Dr Charlotte Cross (Senior Lecturer in International Development at The Open University) and Dr John Giblin (Keeper of Global Arts, Cultures and Design at National Museums Scotland) were joined on the 10th May 2023 by a number of the books contributors for this launch event

How Did Migrant Health Care Workers Fare During Covid-19?

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Professor Nicola Yeates, Chair of Social Policy, School for Social Sciences and Global Studies was joined by colleagues from the Covid-19 and Migrant Health Workers: Risks and Responses project on the 27th April 2023

Financial Food Speculation and the Global Food Crisis

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Dr Sophie van Huellen, a Lecturer in Development Economics with the Global Development Institute (GDI) at the University of Manchester and a Research Associate with the Economics Department at SOAS University of London joined us on the 29th March 2023.

The governance of renewable electricity procurement by private suppliers in Ethiopia

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Seife Ayele is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK. He joined us on 7 December 2022 for this seminar.

A theological perspective on space law and technology

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Jessica Giles joined us from the Faculty of Business and Law at The Open University for this SRA IDII seminar on 9 November 2022

Collaborative writing practices in crisis: the ethics of co-research and adaptation

This seminar was held on Wednesday 19 October 2022 and explored new ways of thinking about ethics of inclusion and about ‘co-research’

Book launch: The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South

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We kicked off our 2022/2023 International Development and Innovation Seminar Series by celebrating a new book by the OU's Ece Kocabıçak

Is Codetermination in Europe a barrier to excessive financialization?

Mustafa Erdem Sakinç from Université Sorbonne Paris Nord joined us for our final seminar of the 2021/22 series on 15 June 2022

The afterlife of industrial work

Alessandra Mezzadri from SOAS discusses 'The afterlife of industrial work: Urban-to-rural labour transitions from the factory to the informal economy'

Contact us

To find out more about our work, or to discuss a potential project, please contact:

International Development Research Office
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
United Kingdom

T: +44 (0)1908 858502
E: international-development-research@open.ac.uk