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  • A man wearing a red top attempting to cycle a bike through knee high flooding

    OU Academic contributes to scoping new special report on climate change

    Dr Arabella Fraser, Senior Lecturer in Development, was among UK experts nominated by BEIS to contribute to the IPCC’s scoping exercises on the structure of a new special report on climate change and cities.

  • Skyview of the Kampala city centre in Uganda

    Commonwealth Scholarships award for MSc in Global Development students in Uganda

    Development Policy and Practice have secured 9 Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships, funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, for Ugandan development practitioners to study the MSc in Global Development, starting in October 2023.

  • Society’s biggest challenges explored by third annual SSGS magazine

    The new SSGS magazine showcases the most up-to-date teaching and research from the school, delving into everything from the cost-of-living crisis to space ethics, via the science of long-term love and decolonising religious studies.  

  • A cityscape showing different stages of development with skyscrapers and wooden huts

    Commonwealth Scholarships for MSc in Global Development students in Uganda

    Development Policy and Practice have secured 15 Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships, funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, for Ugandan development practitioners to study the MSc in Global Development, starting in October 2022.

  • Calthorpe Community Garden entrance

    “We feel at home”

    Following on from his last blog, Les Levidow shares details of a community garden event hosted by the Calthorpe Community Garden, London. This was the September Spotlight Garden of Urban Harvest 2021, organised by the Capital Growth programme.

  • Professor Giles Mohan - Fellow Academy of Social Sciences

    A Fellowship call for Professor Giles Mohan

    Professor Giles Mohan’s contributions to development studies have been recognised this month with the conferring of a Fellowship from the Academy of Social Sciences.

  • A greenhouse with tomatoes

    Community food growing responds to the COVID-19 crisis

    Dr Les Levidow is a Senior Research Fellow at The Open University. In this blog, he discusses the benefits of community food growing and the comfort it brought to many during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way of overcoming social isolation.

  • Image shows Dr Rory Horner smiling

    India and the search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines

    We were delighted to have Dr Rory Horner from the University of Manchester join us in January to discuss 'Between globalisation and nationalism: India and the search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines'. The webinar is now available to view again.

  • Photo by Daniel Schludi on Unsplash - images shows a row of COVID-19 vaccines in small blue bottles

    The Demand of Justice in the Diffusion of the Vaccine for COVID-19

    Theo Papaioannou, Professor of Politics, Innovation and Development, highlights the inequities faced by millions in regards to access to the COVID-19 vaccine. While the US, UK and Europe rush to procure vaccines, Theo urges us to consider those in poor and marginalised countries

  • SSGS magazine promo

    The new SSGS magazine

    We're pleased to announce the publication of SSGS Magazine, which offers insight into the breadth of work across the School's eight disciplines. 

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