Warwick Global Development Society - The Podcast

Football is one of the world's largest social phenomena, uniting people and reaching every corner of the world. After the UEFA Euro 2021, we took an international development lens on the sport that moves not only Europe but the world. In today's episode, Fabian talked to Julian Pohl from the Berlin based NGO streetfootballworld, which uses football as a tool to catalyse change in societies around the world. Listen to an interesting talk about a shared passion, football's power to promote development and Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel.

In todays episode, Fabian talked to Michelle Müntefering. She is the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and member of the German Bundestag. Together they took a cultural perspective on international development, and talked about how imperial ways of thinking and patriarchal power relations impact our view on development and foreign policy, as well as how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the work at the federal foreign office, a job which usually involves a lot of travelling.

In today's episode, Fabian talked to Peter Ruhenstroth-Bauer. He is director of the UNO Flüchtlingshilfe, the German partner of the UNHCR. We talked about the uncertainties many refugees face amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and what keeps us awake at night.

Today's episode is a special insight into the Warwick Symposium for International Development, which took place online in the last week of spring term at the University of Warwick. Not only did we have an inspiring discussion on Covid-19 and how it redefined the concept of space, but also was our online symposium a prime example for the study of international development in times of the Covid-19 pandemic, uniting students and scholars from across the globe, as well as posing new challenges like computers on strike. Listen to how we discussed the Covid-19 pandemic from a post-colonial perspective with Briony Jones, Associate Professor of International Development at the University of Warwick, and Sankaran Krishna, Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. How is post-colonialism expressed in the pandemic? Can post-colonialism explain the regional, ethnical and gender-related differences in the severity of crisis effects? What can be done to fix Covid vaccine "apartheid"? How do post-colonial structures impact capacities for economic recovery from the pandemic? What can we learn from taking the postcolonial perspective on the Covid-19 pandemic?

In today's episode, Junaid talked to Hamna Ishaq. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics. She has been working in the development sector for the past 5 years as a monitoring and evaluation specialist. She has worked with donors like USAID and UNICEF and led projects in Pakistan as well as in Uganda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

In this episode, Dana talked to Dr. Edward Brown. He is Senior Director at the African Center for Economic Transformation in Ghana which is a think tank that produces research and provides policy advice to African countries promoting a concept of “growth with DEPTH” (Diversification, Export competitiveness, Productivity increases, Technological upgrading, Human well-being). We talked about this concept as a framework for development, how the pandemic affected opportunities especially for African governments to promote economic transformation and about the role of African leadership and regional cooperation in the process.Further information can be found here:https://acetforafrica.org/https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/edward-brown-growth-with-depth-should-guide-economic-transformation-in-africa

In this episode Abby welcomes Dr Rory Horner, senior lecturer in Globalisation and Political Economy at the Global Development Institute attached to the University of Manchester. We chat about the concept of global development, the global value chains of the COVID-19 vaccines and the problems of vaccine distribution

In this episode Fabian talked to Dr. Annette Massmann. She is director of the Future Foundation for Development at the GLS Bank in Germany. We discussed her projects in Latin America, Africa and South Asia, a sustainable and inclusive approach to development, the philosophy of money, as well as the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In our first episode we talked to Prof. Shirin Rai. She is professor in the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, the Director of Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development, and our module leader. We talked about the origins of WGDS, the study of international development during the pandemic and its future.

Teaser to introduce the new podcast of the Warwick Global Development Society.