Events
We engage with students, researchers, government, policy makers and the public through our talks, seminars, workshops and conferences. Our events are open to students, staff and the general public.
Upcoming events
Digital Health Equity seminar: Demystifying User Centred Design in Healthcare
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on 11th September 3-4pm via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96339700737. Tim Brazier from Thrive by Design will talk about “Demystifying User Centred Design in Healthcare”. In this seminar, Tim will share lessons and insights from the design-thinking approach they use at Thrive b..
Global Development Today... Whose 'Development' Is It Really?
Join Deborah Doane, author of ‘The INGO Problem: Power, Privilege and Renewal’, and Nana Asantewa Afadzinu, Executive Director of the West Africa Civil Society Institute, to discuss current challenges within the aid sector, how Southern NGOs are leading calls for structural change in global development, and whether International NGOs are r..
Fairtrade: Celebrating 30 Years of a Movement for Global Economic Justice
The School of Environment, Education and Development Annual Social Responsibility Lecture Fairtrade is celebrating its 30th anniversary in the UK. When consumers buy Fairtrade labelled goods, they are supporting farmers and workers to improve their living standards, invest in their communities and businesses, and protect the shared environmen..
The Suburban Frontier: Middle-Class Construction in Dar es Salaam
Speaker: Claire Mercer (LSE) Co-organised with the Geography Department African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, urban residents are putting their resources into finding land and building homes on city edges. The Suburban Frontie..
Uneven Development and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regional Tensions Around New Growth Models
Speaker: Catherine Boone (LSE) This talk draws upon Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa (Cambridge, 2024) to trace the roots of strong regionalism within African countries, arguing that this arises from both inequalities rooted in economic geography and the structure of political institutions. In many African countries, we see forms o..
A Political Epistemology of International Development
Speaker: David Ludwig (Wageningen) The colonial myth of a “civilizing mission” is built on imagining the colonized as ignorant and in need of education by colonial knowledge holders. Even after the collapse of European empires, international development maintained many of these epistemic hierarchies, treating local communities as passive..
Dams, Power and the Politics of Ethiopia’s Renaissance
Speaker: Tom Lavers (GDI) After more than a decade, Ethiopia is filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a controversial dam with the potential to transform the hydrology and politics of the Nile Basin. The GERD is the culmination of a dam-building boom carried out over three decades and a key pillar of the Ethiopian Peoples’ Rev..
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