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Spotlight On: Inclusive Innovation and Development
Visiting Professor Smita Srinivas and IKD Deputy Director Theo Papaioannou are interviewed about their inclusive innovation and development research.
Novice Interaction Design in Botswana: Results of a Diary Study
Professor Helen Sharp and Dr Nicole Lotz discuss what the insights gained from their study might mean for design pedagogy for novices in different cultures.
Getting to Know: Mathematics, Computing & Technology (MCT) Faculty
Amongst others, Julius Mugwagwa and Dinar Kale introduce their work on the provision of affordable healthcare in developing countries.
Flowers at the Altar of Profit and Power? The Continuing Disaster at Bhopal
Professor Steve Tombs assesses the claims around responsibility for the Bhopal disaster, and the failure both to provide justice and to apply it.
A New Focus on Results? Improving Basic Services in Ethiopia & Somaliland
As Aid donors introduce ever stricter requirements, Henrietta Blackmore focuses on Save the Children's work to consider the impact and possible responses.
Biotechnologies & Health Innovation
Dr Mary Upton looks at community engagement in South African HIV vaccine clinical trial sites, and its use of advocacy networks to gain health resources.
Academic Reflections on Global Value Chains
Professor Raphael Kaplinsky takes part in panel discussion at Duke University’s Duke Global Summit on Governance and Development in a Value Chain World.
Regionalism, Activism & Rights: New Opportunities for Health Diplomacy in South America
Dr Pía Riggirozzi argues that regional organisations can become pivotal actors in the advocacy of rights to health in South America.
Impact Investing and Inclusive Business Development in Africa
Michael Ngoasong and Alex Korda discuss impact investing, which aims to create sustainable social and environmental impacts as well as financial returns.
Aid and International Development: Past, Present and Future
Myles Wickstead, OU Visiting Professor in International Relations, looks at the evolution of aid and development thinking since the end of WWII.
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