Research

The Global Development Institute is driven by the desire to advance social justice on a global scale.

We achieve this by conducting world-class, interdisciplinary, research that critically and rigorously advances development theory.

Research at the Global Development Institute is centred around four key areas.

Our research directly impacts policy development and influences the priorities of both public and private organisations.

View our researchers’ work in journals and books, and download early research as working papers.

Visit the website of The Journal of Development Studies which is housed at The University of Manchester and published by Routledge.

The Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Doctoral College is the first of its kind to focus on postgraduate research of international development.

Research themes