Over the summer, we are putting on a lecture & seminar series for our students, where they will get to learn about the ground-breaking research conducted by our community of postgraduate researchers.
This is an opportunity for students to engage with innovative and cutting-edge research in International Development, as well as to network and spend some face-to-face time with peers. Each session is 2 hours long and requires no previous preparation. Students can simply show up and engage in the discussions.
In these sessions, students will learn about a range of topics related to International Development, from the ethics and practicalities of conducting fieldwork in diverse environments, to practical tutorials on how to use GIS software.
The full range of topics is below.
June
- Tuesday 22nd: Dilemmas, mishaps, opportunities: the ethics and practicalities of fieldwork (Rafaella Simas Lima & Henry Staples)
- Thursday 24th: Peace-building and ex-combatant reintegration (Henry Staples)
- Tuesday 29th: Tourism for development in Mexico (Itzel San Roman Pineda)
- Tuesday 29th: Coding in qualitative research + NVivo basics (Rafaella Simas Lima)
July
- Thursday 1st: Alternative economies for just and sustainable futures (Ella Hubbard)
- Tuesday 6th: GIS/Illustrator part 1: Introduction to ArcMap - GIS (Remy Veness & Pete Tuckett)
- Thursday 8th: GIS/Illustrator part 2: Creating and editing figures - GIS & Adobe Illustrator (Remy Veness & Pete Tuckett)
- Wednesday 7th: Elite feminism: Navigating race and sexism in African extractives (Nerea A Okong'o)
- Tuesday 13th: Energy Justice, participation and conflicts in `sustainable development' (Sandra Jazmin Barragan Contreras)
- Thursday 15th: Doing a PhD in the UK - Panel with various current PGRs
Find out more about the research on international development conducted by our own academic staff: Ankit Kumar, Sammia Poveda, Dan Hammett, Miguel Kanai.