International Development Seminars

The Specter of State Capitalism

We were joined today by Ilias Alami, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University

6th April 2022

Emergent Geographies of the Second Global Cold War

Seth Schindler, Senior Lecturer of Urban Development and Transformation at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, joined us for this highly topical discussion

16th March 2022

Vaccine shots and silver bullets

Charlie Wheltham joined us for today's International Development and Innovation Seminar, with input from Theo Papaioannou, Professor of Politics, Innovation and Development at the OU

9th February 2022

Mozambique's resource curse is a success of donor actions to create oligarchs

We were joined by Dr Joseph Hanlon and Thomas Selemane on Wednesday 12 January 2022. You can now watch this seminar back again here

12th January 2022

Introduction to REDEFINE a 5-year, €2.5 million project funded by the European Research Council

This seminar was held on 24 November 2021 and provided an overview of a 5-year, €2.5 million project funded by the European Research Council called REDEFINE

3rd December 2021

Reviewing 15 years of research on neoliberal conservation

We were joined by Elia Apostolopoulou, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Dimitris Bormpoudakis, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent

13th October 2021

Prof Raphael Kaplinsky, Sustainable Futures: An Agenda for Action

Professor Raphael Kaplinsky joined us to launch his brand new book, Sustainable Futures: An Agenda for Action

8th July 2021

From Passive Viewing to Active Listening: Collective Intelligence technologies for Peace Building Education in Rwanda

Dr Anna De Liddo presented 'From Passive Viewing to Active Listening: Collective Intelligence technologies for Peace Building Education in Rwanda'.

19th May 2021

African Agency in Development, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution

Professor Funmi Olonisakin, Dr Moses Tofa and Dr David Mwambari from the African Leadership Centre, Kings’ College, London joined us on 14 April 2021.

14th April 2021

'Digital Workerism: tracing global workers’ struggles against platforms'

Dr Jamie Woodcock joined us on 24 March to present 'Digital Workerism: tracing global workers’ struggles against platforms'

24th March 2021

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
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United Kingdom

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