There was a packed agenda at the week-long, virtual Development Studies Association (DSA) Conference 2021, hosted by the University of East Anglia. Jo Davies attended panels under the ‘Rethinking Development’ and…Read More >
News
Project launch – Transnational Families in Europe: Care, Inequalities and Wellbeing
Across Europe, refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants face a variety of challenges in accessing health, social care and welfare owing to differing entitlements depending on their legal status, inconsistent…Read More >
Sweden and the Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction 2015-2030: A gap analysis
Division Member Dr. Marie Aronsson-Storrier has just published a gap analysis of Sweden’s implementation of the Sendai Framework commissioned by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB). The primary purpose of…Read More >
How Legalizing Cocaine’s Base Ingredient Could Save Indigenous Lives
Journalist Amy Booth at Vice news has recently published an article describing some of the issues facing indigenous coca farmers based on the research undertaken by division member Thomas Grisaffi…Read More >
New Book Published from Global Development member Professor Michael Goodman: Geographies of Food: An Introduction
A new textbook entitled Geographies of Food: An introduction has been published by Mike Goodman from the Global Development Research Division and a series of co-authors from Universities of Hull…Read More >
RUSU Excellence Awards 2021 winners
The RUSU Excellence Awards recognise colleagues who display excellent and innovative teaching practice, awarding those who students believe have gone above and beyond expectations, tirelessly working to improve the delivery…Read More >
The End of Food Ethics? Farming Robots, Cellular Agriculture and the Future of Food
On the 12th of May, 2021, Professor Mike Goodman from the Global Development Research Division and Dr. Alexandra Sexton from the Department of Geography and Sheffield gave a talk at…Read More >
Reflections on the Groundnut Scheme
To celebrate it’s 70th anniversary, the MERL is exploring objects from its collections connected to the year 1951, when the Museum was first established. As part of this project PhD…Read More >
Seminar : Understanding of the construction of ‘good’ food in the digital?
Join us for our Human Geography and Global Development online seminar. Sylvia Jaworska, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Reading, will be presenting on: What…Read More >
Panel at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)
Reading University and the Andean Information Network (AIN) have organised a panel for the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) 64th Session: The panel will consist of academics (including…Read More >
