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Upcoming

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.

Past events

Thursday 4 December 2025 9am

Drop in to discuss with Nick potential books or book series projects

Thursday 27 November 2025 1pm

Nick Wolterman, Senior Commissioning Editor for International Development, African Studies, and Economics at Zed Books / Bloomsbury Academic is coming to give a short, in-person presentation on how to pitch a book idea to a publisher.

Wednesday 16 July 2025 12pm

Join us for a timely and urgent discussion on the global trend towards repressing environmental activism, with insights from the UK, Europe, and Latin America.

Friday 11 July 2025 12pm

IGDC and Arts & Humanities scholars are invited to join us for an afternoon of interdisciplinary engagement and discussion at Harewood House.

Wednesday 2 July 2025 12pm

Please join us for an important event on 2 July in which we will share the latest intelligence on sources of funding for global development research.

Thursday 12 June 2025 5.00pm

Join us for this years Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture

Tuesday 3 June 2025 5pm

Join us for an Evening Reception and Guest Lecture HE Dr Desra Percaya, Indonesian Ambassador to the UK and RI

Tuesday 3 June 2025 1pm

Please join us for our annual Peace Lab colloquium, Visions of Peace.

Wednesday 21 May 2025 1pm

Join YESI and IGDC for a series of workshops that will bring researchers together to share and mobilise social science approaches, methods and perspectives to meet the challenges posed by climate change at the local and global scale.

Thursday 24 April 2025 12pm

Join IGDC and our three speakers (Duncan Green, Indrajit Roy, and Sayed Jalal Shajjan) as we discuss the implications of recent US aid cuts

Friday 21 March 2025 9.30am

Join us for a panel on Far Right Politics

Thursday 20 March 2025 6pm

Join us for the first workshop for the UKRI and Horizon Europe funded project on "Latin American Challenges in the 21st century"

Wednesday 26 February 2025 10am

Join us and the University of York's EDI Research Centre for a virtual webinar discussing how to make research more inclusive and diverse by decolonising traditional approaches.

Wednesday 12 February 2025 1.30pm

Join YESI and IGDC for a series of workshops that will bring researchers together to share and mobilise social science approaches, methods and perspectives to meet the challenges posed by climate change at the local and global scale.

Wednesday 22 January 2025 1pm

Join IGDC and YESI for an interactive seminar session with Dr Marília Luz David, visiting from the Brazilian Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

Wednesday 11 December 2024 5pm

Duncan Green (LSE, From Poverty to Power, How Change Happens) reflects on how advocacy, campaigns and influencing can do better at bringing about the changes we seek.

Friday 6 December 2024 1pm

This presentation will outline the role played by the case of Palestine-Israel within the field of settler colonial studies.

Monday 2 December 2024 1pm

Join YESI and IGDC for a series of workshops that will bring researchers together to share and mobilise social science approaches, methods and perspectives to meet the challenges posed by climate change at the local and global scale. 

Tuesday 26 November 2024 1pm

Participatory action research recognises the value of experiential knowledge and local priorities by involving community members as active participants and co-designers.

Wednesday 30 October 2024 1pm

Join YESI and IGDC for a series of workshops that will bring researchers together to share and mobilise social science approaches, methods and perspectives to meet the challenges posed by climate change at the local and global scale. 

Tuesday 24 September 2024 1pm

Join our YESI International Fellows Seminar with Edmond Totin, Department of Tropical Forestry, National University of Agriculture, Benin

Tuesday 9 July 2024 11am

Join us for a talk on the preliminary results from a pilot study for the World Peace Foundation & US Institute of Peace

Friday 21 June 2024 12.30pm

Get ready for Anarchy & Activism - Disrupting Disability, all about challenging norms, breaking barriers, and creating change together.

Thursday 20 June 2024 4pm

Join our seminar with Les Monaghan where he will talk about what holds us together and photographing the unseen and unheard

Thursday 23 May 2024 3pm

Join our joint YESI/IGDC International Fellows Seminar with Dr Abena Boakye, from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.

Tuesday 21 May 2024 11am

Join IGDC, CAHR, and the Department of Politics & International Relations as we explore the political and legal reflections on the Israel-Palestine conflict

Monday 20 May 2024 2pm

Join us for the second webinar in a series organised by the IGDC and the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria, South Africa

Tuesday 23 April 2024 1pm

Join IGDC and William Harnden in person for his talk on Connect Development.

Tuesday 23 April 2024 1pm

Join IGDC and William Harnden in person for his talk on Connected Development.

Wednesday 10 April 2024 11am

Join us for the first webinar in a series organised by the IGDC and the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria, South Africa

Thursday 8 February 2024 11.30am

What can discourse analysis reveal into the development of connective infrastructures, past and present?

Thursday 1 February 2024 10.30am

Join the newly established PhD student collective at IGDC for the first lecture in their semesterly seminar series.

Thursday 1 February 2024 10.30am

Join the newly established PhD student collective at IGDC for the first lecture in their semesterly seminar series.

Tuesday 28 November 2023 4pm

IGDC is hosting a lecture on "Towards decoloniality and justice: when the past pushes unfinished into the present"

Wednesday 4 October 2023 9am

Join us for the fifth Ventana Conference, they theme is navigating uncomfortable contradictions: decolonial routes to pluriversality

Wednesday 4 October 2023 9am

Join us for the fifth Ventana Conference, they theme is navigating uncomfortable contradictions: decolonial routes to pluriversality

Thursday 27 July 2023 10am

Join IGDC for the Lake Chad Basin and Sahel (LCB&S) Security and Development Early Career Knowledge Exchange Conference

Thursday 22 June 2023 9.45am

Join IGDC and YESI’s Climate Change Network for a joint workshop on Climate Neutrality and Adaptive Behaviour

Wednesday 17 May 2023 5pm

Join UFBA and IGDC for a film screening on audiovisual community collaborations in Bahia, Brazil.

Wednesday 17 May 2023 9.30am

Join the IGDC and the ISC in celebrating their global health research partnership

Thursday 4 May 2023 2.30pm

Will 2023 be the year in which historic responsibility for climate change is finally acknowledged by the world’s major polluting nations?

Wednesday 3 May 2023 10am

Join ARISE and CHORUS consortia for a webinar to discuss the importance of employing an intersectional and gendered lens when looking at health and wellbeing in informal settlements.

Friday 24 February 2023 2pm

IGDC is hosting a seminar on "Inequalities in knowledge systems"

Wednesday 23 November 2022 4pm

IGDC and the Department of History are hosting a webinar on “The Anthropocene Globe”

Wednesday 9 November 2022 2.30pm

IGDC and ISRF are hosting a webinar on “Rethinking recovery in Latin American landscapes: knowledges, conservation and justice.”

Friday 28 October 2022 8.45am

We are delighted to announce a one-day online workshop of invited speakers from the field of Business for Peace at the School for Business and Society, University of York.

Tuesday 18 October 2022 2pm

The private and public sectors, civil society, academia, NGOs must all come together to ensure that we realise the ambition enshrined in the various SDGs. Goal#17 in effect is the load-bearing goal of the SDGs.

Wednesday 5 October 2022 2pm

Join us on Wednesday 5 October when Professor Naomi Hossain will give a lecture on the moral economy of the global crowd

Wednesday 5 October 2022 9am

Hear from researchers working on African postcolonial and/or decolonial processes. We are looking to share and compare the experiences in these two continents.

Wednesday 13 July 2022 2pm

Join us to explore the effectiveness, and potential consequences, of the framing of planetary environmental challenges as ‘emergencies’.

Thursday 19 May 2022 2pm

Our speakers with backgrounds in Brazilian Environment and Society studies, reflect how diverse scientific fields are tackling these crises.

Thursday 24 February 2022 12.30pm

Dr Saba Joshi chairs a roundtable with four scholars and development practitioners discussing their work relating to LGBTQI inclusion in International Development

Thursday 25 November 2021 2.30pm

Using recent British political developments as a jumping-off point, this roundtable brings together experts to challenge assumptions about links between security, migration, and development made by Britain, the EU and beyond.

Wednesday 24 November 2021 9.30am

Join us for a lively panel discussion presenting the history and principles of Thai Baan and discussing the process of conducting Thai Baan research using two case studies that have applied Thai Baan research approaches.

Friday 19 November 2021 9am

Co-hosted by Research Theme Champions and IGDC, engaged scholars from the Global South who are also involved in the COP present their perspectives on what COP means for future research agendas and research priorities.

Wednesday 10 November 2021 2pm

For this IGDC Research Away Day, Chris West (SEI-Y) will introduce the University’s work on the Sustainability Code of Practice to date, and we will reflect on the implications of adopting more sustainable research practices for the IGDC community

Thursday 4 November 2021 2pm

Alex Jacobs, Director of the Joffe Charitable Trust discusses how the UK and its network of offshore centers play a central role in global illicit financial flows.

Wednesday 3 November 2021 2pm

A panel of expert speakers provide their unique professional and personal experiences and perspectives to discuss the concept of hope and its role in human society.

Wednesday 27 October 2021 2pm

Professor Heaven Crawley explores the challenges of ‘walking the talk’ when it comes to decentering migration research.

Wednesday 20 October 2021 2pm

Dr Ariadne Collins discusses how de-centring whiteness from its position as an automatic, oppositional counterpart to blackness can make space for greater recognition of the role played by the environment in processes of racialization.

Wednesday 13 October 2021 8pm

Dr Tuhiwai Smith discusses decolonising research methods and provides reflections regarding the practical conduct of social science research methods as well as her best-selling book Decolonising Methodologies Research and Indigenous Peoples

Thursday 16 September 2021 6.30am

British Institute for East Africa collaborate with the IGDC, University of York, University of Cambridge and University College London for a UKRI-funded online conference and COP26 Workshop on Building Transformational Pathways to Adaptation

Tuesday 30 March 2021 11am

The Urbanisation and Health Network in collaboration with ''CHORUS'' (Community-Led Effective Urban Health Systems), present talks and a panel discussion with speakers from multiple institutions around improving health in urban areas

Friday 5 March 2021 2pm

Tallulah Lines (IGDC) and Jayanthi Lingham (WICID) chair a panel exploring the impact of unpaid care work on women and girls by discussing how feminist and women’s movements challenge non-recognition and the challenges presented by Covid-19.

Friday 12 February 2021 3pm

In the context of Black History Month in the United States, Professor Henrice Altink and Dr Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven host a round table to explore how race is dealt with across three distinct disciplines.

Thursday 28 January 2021 2pm

IGDC's Research Away-Day discusses the theme of Hope following a discussion around inclusive research

Wednesday 11 November 2020 4pm

Dr Sara De Jong will discuss and explore how migrants and refugees have been affected by Covid-19 with our guest speakers Emily Arnold-Fernandez, Niamh Ni Bhriain, John Grayson, Dr Adriana Marcela Velasquez Morales and Dr Pia Riggirozzi.

Wednesday 4 November 2020 1pm

Papiya Mazumdar is joined by a panel of speakers discussing the current health system constraints in low middle income countries and will provide their opinions on the present and future agendas in global health initiatives.

Thursday 30 July 2020 12pm

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven chairs a panel discussion surrounding the economic and financial consequences of the current Covid-19 pandemic on women and how it has exacerbated gender inequality.

Tuesday 7 July 2020 3pm

Jessica Omukuti discusses COVID-19's projected impact and climate justice implications as well as exploring the economic downturn from emerging from COVID-19 adversely impacting communities and households in the Global South.

Monday 29 June 2020 3pm

Christine Wallace chairs a panel discussion to explore the impact of Covid-19 on the Global Development industry and discuss the challenges presented by Covid-19 to the business of development.

Friday 12 June 2020 12pm

Dr Philip Roberts and Dr Indrajit Roy discuss the implications of global power shifts that are likely to emerge due to Covid-19 with our invited guest speakers, Dr Harsh Mander and Dr Sabrina Fernandes.