Global Sustainable Development News

Maurice Beseng has published a new open-access article in the leading peer-reviewed journal Marine Policy, which is published by Elsevier.

The article, titled ‘Managing abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear in Cameroon’s marine small-scale fisheries: Perspective of local ecological knowledge’, explores the growing global challenge posed by abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear, and its contribution to multiple sustainability challenges including plastic pollution, damage to marine ecosystems, and threats to coastal livelihoods and food security.

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We are delighted to announce that Professor Elena Korosteleva, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD), has published a major new monograph: Complexity and Community in International Relations: Nurturing Resilience in Central Eurasia, with Oxford University Press.

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The School for Cross-faculty Studies welcomed Warwick staff and students to a vibrant and well-attended Work Placement Fair 2025 on campus this week.

Organised by Bodrun Nahar – the School’s Employability and Work Placements Manager - the fair showcased the breadth of placement pathways available to students across Global Sustainable Development (GSD), Design Studies, and Liberal Arts.

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The Global Sustainable Development community are proud to celebrate alumna Isabel Coelho Govier, after their dissertation was published in Reinvention: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research.

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In this blog series, we sit down with some of our GSD Masters alumni to discuss their experiences of the course and some of the ways studying GSD has helped benefit their career. Ubayd graduated from our MASc course in 2025 and is currently on the Operational and Environmental Leadership Graduate Scheme at Severn Trent. We spoke to him to find out more about his journey from GSD to employment and how his postgraduate studies help build his new career.

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The Global Sustainable Development (GSD) department are thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr Thi Bogossian as their new Teaching Fellow, effective from October 2025.

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We are delighted to announce that Dr Maurice Beseng has joined the Global Sustainable Development (GSD) department at the University of Warwick as a Teaching Fellow.

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A special edition guest edited by one of our teaching faculty has been published in the Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.

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I am Vince Balázs, a third year Life Sciences and GSD student, and I spent a summer under the URSS project, researching the effect of climate change on the vegetation of sandy forest steppes in Hungary.

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Select individuals of our academic team, led by IGSD, will collaborate with Coventry City Council on a new initiative to revitalise the city’s green and blue spaces, following the success of a proposal that secured almost £100K for Warwick as part of a project worth nearly £1M in total funding for the next three years.

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