IKD: Innovation, Knowledge and Development
An Inter-Faculty Research Centre
Events
Every year the IKD: Innovation, Knowledge and Development research centre hosts a series of seminars around the themes treated by our researchers.
In order to receive an up-to-date list and attend our seminars, you can subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to IKD-Enquiries@open.ac.uk.
International Development Seminar Series – October 2012 to June 2013
The International Development seminar series 2012/2013 has now finished and we are currently working on the new schedule for the next seminar series starting in October 2013.
Past seminars and events
Respectable Bodies: Contesting Gendered Spaces in Global Delhi
Wednesday 12 June 2013, 12:30 (lunch from 12:00)
Open University Campus, Chambers Building, Ground Floor, Room 00-13
Dr Melissa Butcher
Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Science, The Open University
Time to revisit local production of medicines in low-income countries? Insights from the experience of the ARV factory in Mozambique
Tuesday 11 June 2013, 11:00
Open University Campus, Gardiner 1 Building, Ground Floor, Room 017
Giuliano Russo
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (Portugal), Institute of Development Studies
Strategy & Growth in African Entrepreneurship: Case evidences from Ghana & Mauritius
Wednesday 22 May 2013, 12:30 (lunch from 12:00)
Open University Campus, Ground Floor Chambers Building, Room 00-13
Dr Roshan Boojihawon
Open University Business School
Health care commercialisation: a core development issue
Thursday 16 May 2013, 18:00
Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Management Centre
Prof Maureen Mackintosh is giving the Development Studies 3rd Annual Lecture of the Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies, Birkbeck, University of London.
Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean
Wednesday 1 May 2013, 12:30 (lunch from 12:00)
Open University Campus, Ground Floor Chambers Building, Room 00-13
Dr Leon Wainwright
Department of Art History, The Open University
Civil twilight: music, alcohol, and spaces of indigenous sociability in western Canada
Wednesday 10 April 2013, 12:30 (lunch from 12:00)
Open University Campus, Ground Floor Chambers Building, Room 00-13
Dr Byron Dueck
Music Department, Faculty of Arts, The Open University
Innogen Knowledge Exchange Workshop Series
African Local Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Medicines Supply: What's in the future?
Thursday 28 March 2013, 09:30-17:30
The Open University, Camden Campus, London, NW1 8NP
A one day workshop on African local pharmaceutical manufacture and medicines supply to health systems.
Topics
Strengthening local manufacture in East, West and Southern Africa.
Production and Below the Radar Innovation in resource constrained environments.
Economies of scale/efficiency - can local pharmaceutical manufacture be efficient?
Financing local pharmaceutical production: Who, How and Why?
Innovation/R&D capabilities development: Can they be sustained?
Access to medicines and sustaining international and local competition.
African Union Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan of Action Business Plan.
Presenters
Prof Maureen Mackintosh, The Open University
Mr Philip Mhiko, Varichem Pharmaceuticals
Mr Wesley Ronoh, GIZ-EAC Programme
Prof Sudip Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Management Kolkata
Mr Alastair West, UNIDO
Geoff Banda, The Open University
Registration
Registration is required. For more information please contact Maureen Mackintosh, Maureen.Mackintosh@open.ac.uk or Geoff Banda, Geoffrey.Banda@open.ac.uk.
British Council Seminar
Social Justice and the Internationalisation of Higher Education
Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:00-14:30 (buffet lunch included)
Jennie Lee Meeting Room 1, The Open University
Dr Jo Beall
Director Education and Society, British Council
We are delighted to announce Dr Jo Beall will be presenting a seminar on 'Social Justice and the Internationalisation of Higher Education' at The Open University. Jo was formerly Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town with responsibility for academic matters, social responsiveness and external relations and the University's internationalisation strategy.
A graduate of the London School of Economics, Jo joined the academic staff of the LSE in the early 1990s, first in the Department of Social Policy and then the Development Studies Institute, which she directed between 2004 and 2007.
During her academic career Jo has published numerous books and articles in the areas of gender and social policy, social development, local governance, cities and conflict and state fragility. Her work in the field of international development spans twenty years and has taken her to Africa, Asia and Latin America, with significant periods of time in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and South Africa.
Jo has worked with a wide range of national, bilateral and multilateral organisations internationally. In the United Kingdom she served on HEFCE's 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, has sat on a number of editorial boards and research panels and has been a Fellow of Goodenough College since 2000. Jo was a Trustee of ActionAid and is on the Council of the Overseas Development Institute.
The Politics of Production in Ghana
Wednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30 (lunch from 12:00)
Open University Campus, Ground Floor Chambers Building, Room 00-13
Prof Lindsay Whitfield
Department of Society & Globalisation, Roskilde University
EU criteria for sustainable biofuels: Accounting for carbon, depoliticising plunder
Wednesday 27 February 2013, 12:30 (lunch from 12:00)
Open University Campus, Ground Floor Chambers Building, Room 00-13
Dr Les Levidow
Development Policy & Practice, The Open University
Distributing Who gets What and Why: Four Normative Approaches to Global Health Governance
Wednesday 6 February 2013, 12:30 (lunch from 12:00)
Open University Campus, Ground Floor Chambers Building, Room 00-13
Dr Garrett Wallace Brown
Department of Politics, University of Sheffield
'An adventure that is their own' E.R. Chadwick and the origins of community development in Eastern Nigeria and Southern Cameroon
Wednesday 3 October 2012, 12:30 (lunch from 12:00)
Open University Campus, Ground Floor Chambers Building, Room 00-13
Dr Ben Page
Department of Geography, University College London
Taxing Times: Informal Enterprise & Religious conflict in Northern Nigeria
Wednesday 31 October 2012, 12:30 (lunch from 12:00)
Open University Campus, Ground Floor Chambers Building, Room 00-13
Dr Kate Meagher
Department of International Development, London School of Economics
What do cities have to do with democracy?
Wednesday 14 November 2012, (lunch from 12:00)
Open University Campus, Ground Floor Chambers Building, Room 00-13
Prof Clive Barnett
Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University
Child Protection in South Africa
Wednesday 5 December 2012,12:30 (lunch from 12:00)
Open University Campus, Ground Floor Chambers Building, Room 00-13
Lesley Rudd
CEO, Infant Trust