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The Specter of State Capitalism

We were joined today by Ilias Alami, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University

6 April 2022, 15:03
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Emergent Geographies of the Second Global Cold War

Seth Schindler, Senior Lecturer of Urban Development and Transformation at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, joined us for this highly topical discussion

16 March 2022, 17:27

Vaccine shots and silver bullets

Charlie Wheltham joined us for today's International Development and Innovation Seminar, with input from Theo Papaioannou, Professor of Politics, Innovation and Development at the OU

9 February 2022, 16:43
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Mozambique's resource curse is a success of donor actions to create oligarchs

We were joined by Dr Joseph Hanlon and Thomas Selemane on Wednesday 12 January 2022. You can now watch this seminar back again here

12 January 2022, 16:48
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Introduction to REDEFINE a 5-year, €2.5 million project funded by the European Research Council

This seminar was held on 24 November 2021 and provided an overview of a 5-year, €2.5 million project funded by the European Research Council called REDEFINE

3 December 2021, 20:13
Elia Apostolopoulou

Reviewing 15 years of research on neoliberal conservation

We were joined by Elia Apostolopoulou, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Dimitris Bormpoudakis, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent

13 October 2021, 17:53
Professor Raphael Kaplinsky

Prof Raphael Kaplinsky, Sustainable Futures: An Agenda for Action

Professor Raphael Kaplinsky joined us to launch his brand new book, Sustainable Futures: An Agenda for Action

8 July 2021, 13:55
Anna De Liddo

From Passive Viewing to Active Listening: Collective Intelligence technologies for Peace Building Education in Rwanda

Dr Anna De Liddo presented 'From Passive Viewing to Active Listening: Collective Intelligence technologies for Peace Building Education in Rwanda'.

19 May 2021, 16:25
Professor Funmi Olonisakin

African Agency in Development, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution

Professor Funmi Olonisakin, Dr Moses Tofa and Dr David Mwambari from the African Leadership Centre, Kings’ College, London joined us on 14 April 2021.

14 April 2021, 17:14
Jamie Woodcock

'Digital Workerism: tracing global workers’ struggles against platforms'

Dr Jamie Woodcock joined us on 24 March to present 'Digital Workerism: tracing global workers’ struggles against platforms'

24 March 2021, 13:56

Contact us

To find out more about our work, or to discuss a potential project, please contact:

International Development Research Office
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
United Kingdom

T: +44 (0)1908 858502
E: international-development-research@open.ac.uk