Blog Insights

The University of Reading recently hosted the Development Studies Association’s (DSA) annual conference in June 2023. The conference theme was ‘Crisis in the Anthropocene: Rethinking Connection and Agency for Development’….Read More >

Community researchers have been central to the participatory approach undertaken in the Transnational Families in Europe: Care, Inequalities and Wellbeing research project.

On the 10th of November the Global Development Research Division held its first workshop of the year around the topic of “the Anthropocene”, which is the primary theme for the…Read More >

Division member and human geographer Anna Jackman has recently returned from a short fellowship in Norway at The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).Anna was invited to PRIO as part of…Read More >

On the 14th of September, Division Member and microeconomist Florent Dubois participated in a roundtable at the University of the Witwatersrand as part of the PHC PROTEA research project “Domestic…Read More >

Food security has been headlining the news and occupying a central position in academic research for longer than anyone can recall.  Moreover, achieving Global food security has been a long-term…Read More >

We are all aware of the pressing need to slow climate change and the contribution that ‘net zero’ policies have to make. Here, Division member and Human Geographer Eirini Saratsi…Read More >

On the 8th of December, the Global Development Research Division held a workshop entitled ‘Building a research network’. The workshop was held online and hosted by Division Lead, Dr Alex…Read More >

In this short piece Stefania Lovo, Pan He, and Marcella Veronesi reflect on their recent work which considers the role social networks play in the adoption of Biogas technologies in…Read More >