Global Development Institute podcast

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We’re the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester: where critical thinking meets social justice. Each episode we will bring you the latest thinking, insights and debate in development studies.

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Global Development Institute podcast episodes:

04.18.2024
Lwanga Bwalya of Play it Forward Zambia speaks with One World Together
In this episode, One World Together's co-founder Nicola Banks and Community Space Development Lead Asma Bham speak with one of their community partners: Lwanga Bwalya of Play it Forward Zambia. Lwanga dives into the complexities of navigating projects within the current...
04.09.2024
Panel Discussion: Sustainable Forest Transitions Project Launch
Following the launch of the Sustainable Forest Transitions project at Manchester Museum on the 6th March 2024, we bring you a new episode featuring the event's opening remarks and the incredible panel discussion that took place. In this episode, you will...
04.02.2024
In Conversation: Kiya Gezahegne + Oliver Bakewell on Migration
Oliver Bakewell, Impact Director at GDI, discusses migration practices along the Ethiopia-Sudan border with Kiya Gezahegne, an ethnographic researcher from the University of Addis Ababa. Kiya and Oliver have worked together on multiple projects exploring local migration realities and policy...
02.12.2024
Sustainable Forest Transitions: In conversation with Dr Sreeja Jaiswal
In this episode, PhD researcher Sandy Nofyanza kicks off a new series of podcasts linked to the GDI's Sustainable Forest Transitions project. Sandy chats to Dr Sreeja Jaiswal, Humboldt Foundation’s International Climate Protection Postdoc Fellow at the University of Heidelberg,...
01.15.2024
Cash Transfers for Poverty Reduction | Francisco V Ayala
In this episode, Francisco V. Ayala discusses his new book, Cash Transfers for Poverty Reduction: An International Operational Guide (Routledge, 2023), co-authored with GDI’s David Lawson. The book offers the first systematic discussion of the design and implementation of cash...
12.14.2023
In Conversation: Jon Alexander with Nicola Banks and Chibwe Masabo Henry
Selim Iyidirli hosts a conversation around One World Together and its model for Global Citizenship with Jon Alexander, author of Citizens: How the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us, and Nicola Banks and Chibwe Masabo Henry, Co-Founders and...
10.25.2023
Unpacking the ‘Developing’ Country Classification | Deborah Barros Leal Farias
The division of the world into ‘developing’ and ‘developed’ countries has grown increasingly problematic in the past decades. Nonetheless, it remains embedded in legal documents, foreign policy discourse, and colloquial use. In this lecture, Dr Deborah explores this complexity by...
09.29.2023
What role can researchers play in driving urban reform?
This episode comes from the African Cities Research Centre, based at the Global Development Institute. Urban reform coalitions can play a critical role in building inclusive, sustainable and productive cities. Made up of diverse stakeholders who collaborate to achieve common...
06.29.2023
Is Development Studies still relevant? A discussion with Sam Hickey, Heloise Weber and Winnie Mitullah
The latest episode of our podcast brings together Sam Hickey, President of the Development Studies Association UK, Heloise Weber, President of the Development Studies Association Australia and special guest Winnie Mitullah from IDS, University of Nairobi. The three discuss the...
06.21.2023
In Conversation: Kathy Dodworth + Elisa Gambino
In this episode Elisa Gambino is joined by Kathy Dodworth. They discuss Kathy’s new book, Legitimation as Political Practice, her transition from working at an NGO to academia and the idea of the non-state Dr Kathy Dodworth is a Wellcome...
06.12.2023
South Sudan’s decades of displacement: Understanding return and questioning reintegration
People in South Sudan have experienced decades of forced displacement and cross-border mobility, resulting in families split across the country and neighbouring Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda. According to the United Nations as of 2021, more than four million South...
05.10.2023
In Conversation: Lisa Ann Richey + Tanja Müller
In this episode Tanja Müller talks to Lisa Ann Richey about her career and her recent book, Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development. Lisa Ann Richey is Professor of Globalisation and Development Studies at the...
02.27.2023
In Conversation: Tom Goodfellow + Pritish Behuria
In this episode Tom Goodfellow and Pritish Behuria discuss Tom's career and his new book, Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa. Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world...
02.13.2023
Building inclusive urban reform coalitions | Diana Mitlin
This episode comes from the African Cities Research Consortium podcast. Diana Mitlin talks to Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael about her new paper on how reform coalitions can contribute to inclusive equitable urban change in the global South, her experiences of working with...
12.19.2022
Community-led planning and transformation with Charity Mumbi and Jane Wairutu
This episode comes from the African Cities Research Consortium podcast. “It’s not our data as SDI, it’s not ACRC data, it’s not their data. It’s the community’s data. So you have to have that understanding that, at the end...
11.04.2022
In Conversation: Amani Abou-Zeid
In the latest Global Development Institute podcast Amani Abou-Zeid, African Union Commissioner in charge of infrastructure, energy and ICT, talks to Seth Schindler about energy security and infrastructural development in Africa. Ahead of COP27 in Egypt, they reflect on Africa’s...
10.24.2022
In Conversation: Basma Albanna + Richard Heeks
Development studies often focuses on the negative: constraints, challenges, negative impacts, etc. But what if we could use new digital datasets to identify positive deviants: outlier individuals, households, districts and others that outperform their peers in achievement of development goals?...
09.29.2022
In Conversation: Stefano Ponte
In this episode, Stefano Ponte talks to Aarti Krishnan about his research into sustainability, the wine and seafood value chains in South Africa and his recent book Business, Power and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains Dr Stefano...
08.23.2022
Shifting South: Horticulture regional value chains and decent work in Africa
In the second of our Shifting South series, Stephanie Barrientos talks to Margareet Visser and Maggie Opondo. They reflect on the project and their research into horticultural value chains. Shifting South investigated:the rise of South-South trade through regional and domestic marketswhat...
07.27.2022
Shifting South: Regional garment value chains and decent work in Southern Africa
In the first of our Shifting South series, Stephanie Barrientos talks to Khalid Nadvi and Shane Godfrey. They reflect on the project and their research into regional garment value chains, and decent work in Southern Africa. Shifting South investigated:the rise of...
06.17.2022
In Conversation: Stefan Dercon
In the latest episode of the GDI podcast, Professor Stefan Dercon talks to Dr Sophie van Huellen. They discuss Stefan's new book, "Gambling on Development: why some countries win and others lose", his recent departure from the Foreign, Commonwealth and...
05.18.2022
Urban metabolism, water scarcity & seawater desalination in Chile | Maria Christina Fragkou
GDI’s Resources, Environment, and Development research group have recently organised a series of talks on ‘Red Talks: on the Politics of Resources, Environment and Development' The first event welcomed Dr Maria Christina Fragkou, an environmental scientist currently working as an Associate...
05.03.2022
Global Covid-19 vaccine inequality | Karrar Karrar, Lara Dovifat & Ken Shadlen
While the Covid-19 pandemic has caused enormous devastation and disruption in health, social and economic terms, the remarkably quick development of Covid-19 vaccines is an enormous achievement. Yet despite frequent statements that “it's not over anywhere, until it’s over everywhere”,...
04.19.2022
Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order | Yeling Tan
Yeling Tan discusses her book, Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order. China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 represented an historic opportunity to peacefully integrate a rising economic power into the international order based...
04.05.2022
The New International Economic Order & the Right to Development | Jennifer Bair
This podcast focuses on development politics at the United Nations, particularly the period of the so-called New International Economic Order (NIEO) in the 1970s. The NIEO was an effort by Third World countries to pursue a reform agenda that combined...
03.28.2022
The Routledge Handbook of Global Development: Episode 3
To mark the launch of The Routledge Handbook of Global Development, we have recorded 3 podcasts with the core editorial team.In the final episode, core-editor Kearrin Sims sat down with Albert Salamanca and Pichamon Yeophantong, section editors for the book’s...
02.25.2022
The Routledge Handbook of Global Development: Episode 2
In this second podcast to mark the launch of The Routledge Handbook of Global Development, Professor Jonathan Rigg sits down with Dr Nicola Banks, the section editor of 'Game Changers of global development?', to find out what makes a 'game...
02.24.2022
The Routledge Handbook of Global Development: Episode 1
To mark the launch of The Routledge Handbook of Global Development, we have recorded 3 podcasts with the core editorial team.In this first episode, core-editor Kearrin Sims sat down with co-editors Susan Engel, Paul Hodge and Naohiro Nakamura, to discuss...
01.26.2022
In Conversation: Shuaib Lwasa
In the latest episode of the GDI podcast Professor Shuaib Lwasa talks to Dr Seth Schindler. They discuss the recent COP in Glasgow, urban development, African cities and the Urban Action Lab. Shuaib Lwasa is a Professor of Urban Sustainability...
01.13.2022
Why addressing global discontent is essential to build back better from Covid-19 | Alexander Pick
Social unrest is on the rise once more. A surge in discontent in the wake of the global financial crisis was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic but is resuming in many places and in many different forms as the pandemic...
11.18.2021
US-China rivalry in global trade governance | Kristen Hopewell
In this podcast, Kristen Hopewell, Canada Research Chair in Global Policy, presents research from her new book analyzing the impact of the growing US-China conflict on the multilateral trading system. Hopewell argues that China’s ascent has significantly weakened American control...
07.06.2021
GDI & the SDGs: Creating sustainable livelihoods through group farming | Bina Agarwal
In this new mini-series three GDI academics talk to The University of Manchester’s Dr Nic Gowland about how their research is helping to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals for global health, equality and sustainability.More than 80% of South Asia’s...
06.30.2021
GDI & the SDGs: Preventing cardiovascular disease through smart technologies | Gindo Tampubolon
In this new mini-series three GDI academics talk to The University of Manchester’s Dr Nic Gowland about how their research is helping to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals for global health, equality and sustainability.Research shows that nearly 70% of...
06.22.2021
GDI & the SDGs: Gender equality in global value chains | Stephanie Barrientos
In this new mini-series three GDI academics talk to The University of Manchester’s Dr Nic Gowland about how their research is helping to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals for global health, equality and sustainability.Prof Stephanie Barrientos has been researching...
05.10.2021
Oil: from a lifetime of damage-limitation to outrage | David Little
In the latest Global Development Institute podcast, Professor David Hulme interviews Dr David Little, an environmental consultant who has worked internationally on oil spills for a major part of his life.They discuss his work and their recent journal article on...
04.14.2021
Uneven and combined (state) capitalism | Ilias Alami & Adam Dixon
Nick Jepson talks to Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon about their recent talk at the Global Development Institute. The talk blurb is below:The talk contributes to the development of state capitalism as a reflexively critical project focusing on the morphology...
03.31.2021
How to fight inequality(and why that fight needs you) | Ben Phillips
Inequality is the crisis of our time. The growing gap between a few at the top and the rest of society damages us all. No longer able to deny the crisis, every government in the world is now pledged to...
03.12.2021
Imperialism and the Developing World | Atul Kohli
How did Western imperialism shape the developing world? In Imperialism and the Developing World, Atul Kohli tackles this question by analyzing British and American influence on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America from the age of the British...
02.23.2021
How women matter in making change with Sohela Nazneen
Using case studies from research conducted in Nepal, Bangladesh and Uganda, this webinar will reveal how powerful women are critical actors in securing policy change and consolidating policy gains. The webinar explores the different strategies women’s movement actors and women...
02.05.2021
Introduction to the African Cities Research Consortium
Catch up with our webinar which introduced the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) and outlined how the ACRC and its international partners is planning to tackle complex, political and systemic problems in some of Africa’s fastest-growing urban areas.ACRC has been...
01.25.2021
The politics of managing Covid-19 in China & India with Prerna Singh & Yanzhong Huang
India and China have responded very differently to the lives and livelihoods threats created by Covid-19 and they have experienced very different outcomes. This webinar explores the different ways in which political factors have shaped policy responses to Covid-19 in...
01.06.2021
How politics shapes development with Sam Hickey
What kind of politics help to secure inclusive development? After 9 years of research across 26 countries, summing up ESID findings hasn’t been simple. But Three Cs kept cropping up: Context, Capacity, Coalitions.Listen to the a lecture on the Three...
12.16.2020
In Conversation: Chrissie Wellington OBE
In this special podcast we sat down for a chat with Chrissie Wellington OBE, who was the 2020 recipient of The University of Manchester Outstanding Alumni Award.The four-time World Ironman Champion and current Global Head of Health and Wellbeing at...
11.23.2020
Covid-19, garment workers & the development challenges in the Global South with Mark Anner
Mark Anner will share findings from his survey data on the impact of March 2020 order cancellations by major apparel brands and retailers with global supplier factories (USD 40 billion), which left millions of low-income workers (mostly young women) without...
11.11.2020
Political Economies of energy transition with Kathryn Hochstetler
Wind power has expanded quickly in Brazil, while solar power lags there and both wind and solar power have struggled to take off in South Africa. Professor Kathryn Hochstetler argues that four different political economies - climate change, industrial policy,...
10.27.2020
Africa- 75 years after the Manchester Pan-African Congress with Amani Abou-Zeid
Dr Amani Abou-Zeid of the African Union discusses Africa: 75 years after the Manchester Pan-African Congress. Her talk was part of a symposium to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 5th Pan-African Congress which was held in Manchester.Dr Amani Abou-Zeid...
08.03.2020
Covid-19 and the Future of Global Value Chains
The Covid-19 pandemic created a major shock to the global economy. The ramifications of this shock are reverberating through global value chains to reach workers and sites of production throughout the world.These ramifications are both short and long term. In...
07.17.2020
Covid-19 in Kenya’s informal settlements with Charity Mumbi & Jack Makau
Charity Mumbi and Jack Makau work for Muungano wa Wanavijiji, a social movement of 'slum' residents and urban poor people in Kenya, affiliated to SDI International. In this podcast they describe the last few months of working through the initial...
06.16.2020
Migration and development with Tanja Bastia and Ronald Skeldon
In this special podcast, we are lucky to be joined by the editors of the newly published Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development, Tanja Bastia and Ronald Skeldon.In this episode they talk about their long-term collaboration in the fields of...
06.04.2020
In conversation: Alicya Mamo and Shamima Khonat founders of Electric Bazaar
In the latest episode of our ‘In Conversation’ podcast we caught up with Shamima and Alicya; two Manchester Alumni whose fashion business was recently highly commended for social innovation at the Manchester Making A Difference Awards 2020.Listen here to find...

What's Global Development Institute podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Global Development Institute podcast episodes:

Lwanga Bwalya of Play it Forward Zambia speaks with One World Together

Panel Discussion: Sustainable Forest Transitions Project Launch

In Conversation: Kiya Gezahegne + Oliver Bakewell on Migration

Sustainable Forest Transitions: In conversation with Dr Sreeja Jaiswal

Cash Transfers for Poverty Reduction | Francisco V Ayala

In Conversation: Jon Alexander with Nicola Banks and Chibwe Masabo Henry

Unpacking the ‘Developing’ Country Classification | Deborah Barros Leal Farias

What role can researchers play in driving urban reform?

Is Development Studies still relevant? A discussion with Sam Hickey, Heloise Weber and Winnie Mitullah

In Conversation: Kathy Dodworth + Elisa Gambino

South Sudan’s decades of displacement: Understanding return and questioning reintegration

In Conversation: Lisa Ann Richey + Tanja Müller

In Conversation: Tom Goodfellow + Pritish Behuria

Building inclusive urban reform coalitions | Diana Mitlin

Community-led planning and transformation with Charity Mumbi and Jane Wairutu

In Conversation: Amani Abou-Zeid

In Conversation: Basma Albanna + Richard Heeks

In Conversation: Stefano Ponte

Shifting South: Horticulture regional value chains and decent work in Africa

Shifting South: Regional garment value chains and decent work in Southern Africa

In Conversation: Stefan Dercon

Urban metabolism, water scarcity & seawater desalination in Chile | Maria Christina Fragkou

Global Covid-19 vaccine inequality | Karrar Karrar, Lara Dovifat & Ken Shadlen

Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order | Yeling Tan

The New International Economic Order & the Right to Development | Jennifer Bair

The Routledge Handbook of Global Development: Episode 3

The Routledge Handbook of Global Development: Episode 2

The Routledge Handbook of Global Development: Episode 1

In Conversation: Shuaib Lwasa

Why addressing global discontent is essential to build back better from Covid-19 | Alexander Pick

US-China rivalry in global trade governance | Kristen Hopewell

GDI & the SDGs: Creating sustainable livelihoods through group farming | Bina Agarwal

GDI & the SDGs: Preventing cardiovascular disease through smart technologies | Gindo Tampubolon

GDI & the SDGs: Gender equality in global value chains | Stephanie Barrientos

Oil: from a lifetime of damage-limitation to outrage | David Little

Uneven and combined (state) capitalism | Ilias Alami & Adam Dixon

How to fight inequality(and why that fight needs you) | Ben Phillips

Imperialism and the Developing World | Atul Kohli

How women matter in making change with Sohela Nazneen

Introduction to the African Cities Research Consortium

The politics of managing Covid-19 in China & India with Prerna Singh & Yanzhong Huang

How politics shapes development with Sam Hickey

In Conversation: Chrissie Wellington OBE

Covid-19, garment workers & the development challenges in the Global South with Mark Anner

Political Economies of energy transition with Kathryn Hochstetler

Africa- 75 years after the Manchester Pan-African Congress with Amani Abou-Zeid

Covid-19 and the Future of Global Value Chains

Covid-19 in Kenya’s informal settlements with Charity Mumbi & Jack Makau

Migration and development with Tanja Bastia and Ronald Skeldon

In conversation: Alicya Mamo and Shamima Khonat founders of Electric Bazaar