Dr Sam Rawlings (SPEIR) has been investigating the impact of parental education on child health, exploiting a compulsory schooling law reform implemented in China in 1986 to identify effects. The…Read More >
Prosperity & Resilience
News from Prosperity and Resilience: Dr Eleanor Fisher
Dr Eleanor Fisher (SAPD) published ‘The livelihood impacts of cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa: beneficiary perspectives from six countries’ (2017) World Development 99, pp. 299-319 (with Attah, R., Barca, V.,…Read More >
News from Prosperity and Resilience: Andrew Ainslie
Current research in the Lake Victoria Basin by Dr Andrew Ainslie, Lecturer in International Rural Development I am part of a team led by the Walker Institute conducting research in…Read More >
News from Prosperity and Resilience: Chuks Okereke
Professor Chuks Okereke is leading an ERSC Global Challenges Research Fund Grant to convene an international network on Governing Inclusive Green Economy in Africa (GIGGA). The project will build an…Read More >
Deep Space Gateway, Trump, and the space race sixty years on
By Dr Mark Shanahan, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations This week, in the run-up to World Space Week, NASA announced a long-term co-operation project with Roscosmos, the Russian space…Read More >
Top UN expert’s resignation spells trouble for defenders of LGBT rights
by Rosa Freedman, School of Law, University of Reading Vitit Muntarbhorn, the UN’s first Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, has resigned after…Read More >
Armed drones in the ‘right hands’
By Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, Associate Professor in Public International Law, University of Reading A recent BBC news article reported on the development of a new, smaller type of armed drone…Read More >
Ethnic pay disparity – a closer look at differences across groups
By Dr Simonetta Longhi, Associate Professor of Economics Despite more than 20 years of anti-discrimination legislation in the UK, ethnic minorities on average are still paid less than the white British…Read More >