Webinars

AgroEcos conference now available to view again

Watch The Open University’s AgroEcos project conference again here. The project has investigated the agroecology-based solidarity economy in South America since 2020

The Specter of State Capitalism

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

Emergent Geographies of the Second Global Cold War

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

Professor Susan Newman on BBC Radio 4

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'Wealth, influence and the global elite' on BBC Radio 4 with the Professor Susan Newman, Head of Economics at The Open University

Vaccine shots and silver bullets

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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'.

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