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Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre

Promoting interdisciplinary research and partnerships to address pressing global development challenges.

The University of York’s Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC) is a major cross-faculty initiative that brings together a wide community of scholars working on global development.

We support our members to work with academics, networks and partners across and beyond the University to develop research that is people-focused and addresses the urgent and structural challenges of global development.

News

News

30 October 2025

Interdisciplinary research by IGDC members published in the first ten months of the year explore equity, justice and sustainability through work on governance, the environment, health, and participation.

News

23 July 2025

IGDC helps to fund presentations on the forces shaping Chinese agribusinesses and the resilience-building potential of urban agriculture.

News

16 June 2025

The rapidly changing political environment for global development has had shocking consequences for those at the sharp end of injustices, planetary crises and conflict. Two IGDC events consider this changed landscape.

Events

Connect with global development research

IGDC runs events throughout the year exploring the key issues and contexts of global development.

Come along to an event and hear about the latest work being developed by IGDC members and guest speakers, or see our past events.

Event

Tuesday 9 December 2025 4.30pm

Adam Hanieh (Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at University of Exeter) examines fossil capitalism and the accelerating climate emergency, using conflict, violence and dispossession in the Middle East as his lens.

Study global development

Undergraduate degrees and postgraduate research and taught courses in global development can be found across the University in different faculties, schools, departments and centres.

Find out more

Online resources

Video

This expert panel brought together leading scholars examining the criminalisation of environmental protest in both the Global North and South. Together, they explored how democratic and authoritarian regimes alike are restricting environmental advocacy, and what this means for the future of climate justice and civil society.

Video

This webinar which took place on 2 July 2025, shared the latest intelligence on sources of funding for global development research.

More

See past events and videos on IGDC's YouTube channel
This IGDC podcast explores the practicalities of decolonising research.