Local knowledge is often ignored but yet it can be an effective tool for estimating climate change impacts. What happens when the local input is absent? In this blog, PhD…Read More >
Blog Insights
The Manc Kitchen: Imagining a right to food in Manchester
Access to food is a right, but just how can government make this right to be fully realised by all especially when their austerity measures. Can communal meals fill this…Read More >
Generation Delta: Nurturing the Next Generation of BAME Women Professors
Professor Uma Kambhampati, Professor of Economics and Head of School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, University of Reading, is part of a consortium of six universities working on the Generation...Read More >
Juliet Ainomugisha visits the Department of International Development at the University of Reading
PhD researcher Juliet Ainomugisha is an agronomist and plant pathologist, undertaking her PhD programme at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy. Juliet is specialising in food security,...Read More >
Gilbert Ngwaneh Miki Contributes to White Paper on School Meals and Food Systems Transformation
Gilbert Ngwaneh Miki, a PhD student in the Department of International Development, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, contributed to a White Paper titled ‘School Meals and Food Systems: Rethinking...Read More >
University of Reading’s Policy Impact Towards Promoting Millet Production
Millets are not only recognised as important for food security because of their nutritional value but also for their resilience and adaptability to diverse environmental conditions, which is highly valuable...Read More >
International Development and Increasing International Engagement
The University of Reading recently hosted the Development Studies Association’s (DSA) annual conference in June 2023. The conference theme was ‘Crisis in the Anthropocene: Rethinking Connection and Agency for Development’….Read More >
GDRD Workshop: Crisis in the Anthropocene
On the 10th of November the Global Development Research Division held its first workshop of the year around the topic of “the Anthropocene”, which is the primary theme for the…Read More >
Dr. Anna’s Jackman Fellowship at The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Division member and human geographer Anna Jackman has recently returned from a short fellowship in Norway at The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).Anna was invited to PRIO as part of…Read More >
