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📽️ Fresh on our YouTube channel: This week's webinar on feminist participatory grantmaking: youtu.be/zk8GhBmy8yM?si…

📌What if we could reimagine from the ground up? Join us for a book talk with @PSutoris (@UniLeeds), as he explores new ways of thinking about global development in a time of climate crisis, deepening inequality, and rapid global change. We are excited to welcome Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou (@ODI_Global) as discussant for a dynamic conversation, chaired by @nomhossain (@SOAS). 📅 19 March 2026 🕔 5pm 📍 SWLT, @SOAS Register here: shorturl.at/J3iRw

🩸 "Sinners" isn’t just a vampire movie. It’s supremacy, cultural appropriation & resistance. Zoe Marriage (@SOASDevelopment) & Pauliana de Sousa show how it connects to Black culture, capoeira & racial politics. ➡️Read the full blog: shorturl.at/v37Vr 🎬Watch the breakdown: shorturl.at/9lhUT

Rethinking “Development”: Why We Must Embrace Uncertainty developmentresearch.eu/?p=2530 via @EADI

"Policies should not dictate precise plans that never work but instead offer a framework within which different people can deliberate, experiment, improvise and innovate, creating new solutions along the way that can be shared and expanded" developmentresearch.eu/?p=2530

🆕 Our fortnighly newsletter is out again! Featuring an open access book on the return of the Taliban and one by @KingsIntDev on radical grassroots educators, webinars, picks and opportunities from us and our member community. 👓 Check it now! mailchi.mp/eadi/nl1march26

📢 Rights. Justice. Action. For All Women and Girls This @EADI webinar explores Feminist Participatory Grantmaking and its role amid shrinking civic space and funding for social justice movements. 📅 18 March Register 👇 buff.ly/z2j0At4

"When the state neglects to deliver timely justice, the gap is not left unfilled. It is disproportionately absorbed by women through unpaid care work, informal labour, and social repair." ✍️ Our latest blog on the occasion of #InternationalWomensDay developmentresearch.eu/?p=2523

We're happy to announce that registration is now open for all events from our joint working group with @devcomms on land, labour and food! ✅Register via this page eadi.org/network/eadi-w…

ICYMI: Our colleague Sarah Njeri (@sndeall) joined a critical conversation on the challenges Global South scholars face in academic publishing. The lecture “Invisible” Struggles, Unheard Voices also featured Dr. Natalia Bueno (@UnivdeCoimbra) and Dr. Roberta Holanda Maschietto, hosted by NUPRI and CCP (University of São Paulo - @usponline). 📺 Watch the full discussion here: youtube.com/nupriusp

🗒️ Habilidades transformadoras Nuestra homóloga europea, @EADI, organiza el taller digital: ➡️ 'Transformative Skills: Reframing Competence Development in Higher Education'. 📅 El 10 de junio, a las 14:00 h (CET). Inscripciones hasta el 15 de marzo: eadi.org/news-2/transfo…

"Research collaborations remain inherently unequal and hierarchical unless we dare to decouple their financing from development assistance", writes the author of our latest blog - which is also the case for passport positionality, as he argues. ⬇️ ✍️ developmentresearch.eu/?p=2519

Why empathy matters in tackling poverty. @KeetieRoelen (@OU_CSGD) writes for @EADI on how dignity- and agency-centred approaches can improve anti-poverty policy — and avoid cycles of blame and shame. Read more: buff.ly/ia7fKK6

🎧 New podcast out! @KeetieRoelen talks to Shakil Ahmed, educator, storyteller, and futurist at Ridiculous Futures. He unpacks different approaches to future studies and shares his thoughts on the role of various methods to explore the future. open.spotify.com/episode/5FxfAu…

🌍 Do Global Value Chains really benefit us? Join Benjamin Selwyn (@SussexUni) at SOAS for the launch of his new book on global value chains (GVCs), chaired by Lorena Lombardozzi (@floretta_voice). Explore why GVCs may generate exploitative jobs, deepen poverty, stunt human development, and harm the environment, challenging the idea that they automatically boost incomes and create better opportunities. 📍@SOAS SWLT and online 🕔5 March, at 5pm 📝 Register here: shorturl.at/TNxEr

Just a reminder that I'll be talking on green imperialism in the Congo tomorrow at 1PM GMT as part of a @devcomms & @EADI webinar series. The link to register for the event can be found below... x.com/RadleyBen/stat…

La @EADI, y el Instituto de Políticas de Desarrollo (IOB) de la Universidad de Amberes animan a inscribirse en la Conferencia EADI/IOB 2026: 🌿 Modelar futuros sostenibles: ¿Desafíos globales, soluciones (g)locales? 🗓 Descuento hasta el 30 de marzo. eadi.org/eadi-events/ge…

📰 Our newsletter went just out, check it right here! Featuring an open access book on norms and violence against women in Ethiopia, more picks on women and feminism and more picks and opportunities from us and our member community mailchi.mp/eadi/nl2februa…

🆕 ¡Cuenta atrás para el VIII #CIED! Ya está disponible la web del VIII Congreso Internacional de Estudios del Desarrollo. ¿Qué encontrarás en ella? 🔸 Envío de comunicaciones: formulario abierto hasta el 30 de abril 🔸 Programa preliminar: primer avance del cronograma ⬇️⬇️

"Indigenous communities have played a significant role in tourism ventures. However, this does not necessarily imply that they have control over these ventures, that their values guide them, or even that they benefit from them." ✍️ Our latest blog developmentresearch.eu/?p=2514