Global Sustainable Development News
Special issue of TRAJECTORIA on graphic anthropology featuring Dr Charlie Rumsby
At the end of March a special issue of TRAJECTORIA, "Ethno-graphic Collaborations: Crossing Borders with Multimodal Illustration", was published. In a piece titled "Waters of Death and Life: The Evolution of an 'Ethno-Graphic'" by Dr Charlie Rumsby (a Visiting Research Fellow in the GSD Department) and Ben Thomas (an independent digital illustrator) we see an academic thesis in the process of being turned into an ethno-graphic novel.
Professor Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla shares her research on the Cuban Internationalist Solidarity Programme
In the final episode of the Faculty of Arts at Home Series, Professor Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla (Professor in Global Sustainable Development and Head of the School for Cross-faculty Studies) gets us thinking about health and its delivery from a global perspective, by sharing her research on the Cuban Internationalist Solidarity Programme. Hear from Stéphanie about what healthcare means to the professionals on the programme, as well as how the programme itself has impacted Cuban society.
Find out more about staff research interests in the School for Cross-faculty Studies.
Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins presents on climate justice at the University of Antwerp
Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins, Assistant Professor in GSD, recently visited the University of Antwerp to deliver several sessions focused on climate justice. Leon was an invited Visiting Lecturer as a guest of the Faculty of Law and the Institute of Development Policy (IOB).
Join our Postgraduate Open Day on Saturday 2 April 2022
At the University's upcoming Postgraduate Open Day on Saturday 2 April 2022, we will be running the following online session:
- Postgraduate Study in Global Sustainable Development, 1-2:30 pm UK time.
During this session you will hear from staff and current students in the Global Sustainable Development Department. This is a great opportunity to discover more about our MASc degree and our PhD programme.
Book your place on the Open Day and add our event to your agenda.
School for Cross-faculty Studies Public Lecture: Register Now
- ‘Global Multiple Migration: Class-Based Mobility Capital of Elite Chinese Gay Men’
- Wednesday 16 March 2022, 4-6 pm (GMT). The reception for this lecture will start at 4 pm and the talk will start at 4:30 pm.
- Hybrid event: Room R1.15, Ramphal Building, and online on MS Teams.
- All Warwick staff, students, and alumni, as well as the general public, are welcome to attend.
Speaker
Susanne Choi Yuk Ping
Susanne Choi Yuk Ping is Professor at the Department of Sociology and the Co-Director of the Gender Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her D.Phil. in Sociology from Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Susanne uses a feminist lens to explore a diverse set of issues related to migration, gender, sexuality, family, work, and social movements in Chinese societies. Her lead–authored book Masculine Compromise (published by University of California Press) explores how men’s rural to urban migration shapes gender and family dynamics in post-socialist China. Her articles were published by American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Social Science and Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, The China Quarterly, Work, Employment and Society, Gender, Work and Organization, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies among others.
UN Food Price Index understates soaring real cost of food, argues Dr Alastair Smith
Dr Alastair Smith, Senior Teaching Fellow in GSD, calls on the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) to focus on real, not nominal food prices, in a correspondence piece published in Nature.
GSD students and staff get stuck in planting trees on campus
In December, a group from the Global Sustainable Development (GSD) Department and the Economics Department helped the Grounds Team plant several trees. This idea was born out of the Warwick Climate Negotiating Forum (WCNF) 2021 which took place in Term 1. Organised by and for students, the Forum asked attendees to step into the shoes of delegates from different nations to hold their own climate negotiations. Instead of handing out freebies such as pens and lanyards at the Forum, the WCNF Team chose to instead plant trees on campus; 26 trees to be exact, in light of COP26.
Find out more about tree planting and biodiversity projects on campus.
PhD Scholarships in Global Sustainable Development: Apply Now!
Applications are now open for our PhD scholarships in Global Sustainable Development (GSD) for the academic year 2022/23. The Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarships Programme, ‘TRANSFORM: Transformations of Human-Environment Interactions to Sustainable Development’, is led by the GSD Department in the School for Cross-faculty Studies.
Applications close at 12 pm (GMT) on Monday 7 March 2022.