Chris Darko

On almost every measure of educational success from pre-K to postgrad, boys and young men now lag well behind their female classmates. In one of our don’t-miss stories of the year, @RichardvReeves argues that there’s a way to help boys do better: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

"Economics is the least socioeconomically and racially diverse of any major PhD discipline" ... piie.com/research/piie-…

Applications welcome! 🙂 Assistant Professor in Industrial Economics or Business Economics (Research & Education) - Birmingham Business School - Grade 8 - 100905 linkedin.com/jobs/view/3402…

Applications welcome! 🙂 Check out this job at University of Birmingham: Associate Professor in Industrial Economics or Business Economics (Research & Education) - Birmingham Business School - Grade 9 - 58374 linkedin.com/jobs/view/3402…

Applications welcome! Associate Prof position in Business/Labour Economics @BLE_BBS @UoB_Business working with a great group of people edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Applications welcome! Assistant Prof position in Business/Labour Economics @BLE_BBS @UoB_Business with a great group of people. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Fiona Carmichael, Christian Darko, Shireen Kanji, and Nicholas Vasilakos show that young women and girls' time spent in unpaid household work contributes to the gender pay gap. Now online: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Every day, they are delivering. Now it's your turn. Join us for #F4GC: bit.ly/3obp4Gk #breakthroughs #guaranteed

Register now for the inaugural #F4GC and take advantage of early bird discounted rates. EB registration closes 3 March, don’t miss out! Join us from 3 to 5 May 2022 at the ICC in Birmingham, UK: bit.ly/3phyXDB #Conference #Challenges #Solutions

Which firms enter export markets? And which gain the most from it? Findings from World Bank Enterprise Survey data published in JIBS show that it depends on the firm’s home market economic development: rdcu.be/cEAPM @fvendrell @chriskdarko @UoB_Business @UVAMcIntire

Four new FULL scholarships (+ stipend etc) for MSc students from sub-Saharan Africa to study at @TheBartlettUCL !! Please share the word!! @PhDinAfrica @UrbanAfricaACC @The_BIEA @arin_africa @UrbanActionLab @Udadisi @KNUSTGH @UnilagNigeria @ARISEHub ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/…

We welcome proposals for our topic on #Education and #Employment Futures for young people. Contributions focused on possible solutions to key challenges facing #youth encouraged! @CcnUob @gcyfrg @GeogEd_RGS @LES_UniBham

The role of Parliamentarians in addressing climate change threats within the #Commonwealth's most vulnerable nations is examined by sustainability expert, Dr Nana O Bonsu in the latest issue of The Parliamentarian ⬇️ issuu.com/theparliamenta…

Researchers from @unibirmingham, @interfields and @chriskdarko, along with @uniofeastanglia have found that not all work is good work, and that these types of work have a negative impact on wellbeing: birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/20…

New in #JDevStudies: Darko [@unibirmingham] Occhiali [@ICTDTax] & @EnricoVanino use an IV approach across 24 SSA countries to find Chinese imports ⬆️ firm productivity, mainly through imports of intermediate inputs tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Education technology can do many good things, but its natural tendency is to exacerbate inequality, not reduce it.

Epistemic humility is a crucial enabler to legitimate educational 'solutions' - as is foregrounding the perspectives of teachers, students and other marginalised groups.

Our final speaker today is @EduRes_Mitchell, Co-director @CIRE_Bristol, and investigator with @TransformingESF - a @GCRF Network Plus focusing on education and sustainability in India, Rwanda, Somalia/Somaliland and South Africa.

Fascinating insight from Dr Namita Datta, discussing rapid change in how young people think about jobs, what training is truly helpful, and how governments need to embed these evolving ideas into their systems.

@EduRes_Mitchell adds that next year's Forum for Global Challenges needs to feature African-led research. We couldn't agree more!