Global Sustainable Development News
New publication: 'A Critical History of Poverty Finance' by Dr Nick Bernards
Image credit: Dr Nick Bernards
A new book by Dr Nick Bernards, Associate Professor in GSD, A Critical History of Poverty Finance, has recently been published by Pluto Press. The book looks at the history of financial 'solutions' to global poverty, tracing out links between colonial-era practices and contemporary fintech fads. It shows how past and present efforts to extend access to formal financial services have reinforced and exacerbated embedded patterns of uneven development.
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.
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.
New practical guide to support active learning in Education for Sustainable Development by Dr Alastair Smith
Advance HE and QAA have launched a series of practice guides designed to support institutions to enable Education for Sustainable Development. Dr Alastair Smith, Senior Teaching Fellow in the GSD Department and Education for Sustainable Development Officer for the School for Cross-faculty Studies, is the author of one of the 18 practice-based guides.
New publication: School for Cross-faculty Studies Student Equity Report 2021
We are pleased to announce the publication of the report on the first School for Cross-faculty Studies Student Equity Survey.
Publication success on marine conservation in World Development journal
Image credit: Dr Marco J Haenssgen
New articles from GSD researcher on the history of credit for agriculture and global development
Dr Nick Bernards, Assistant Professor in GSD, has recently published two articles on the history of agricultural credit and its importance in shaping global development.
Students and staff in GSD featured in Reinvention journal
The latest issue of Reinvention: an International Journal of Undergraduate Research presents a diverse range of content and themes that all comment on ideas of interconnectedness, interdisciplinarity, and sustainability. Moreover, it includes several contributions from students and staff in the GSD Department!
New papers on the Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar
Image: A Pat Jasan volunteer group, copyright Kachinland News.
Three papers produced in the context of Dr Mandy Sadan's Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) projects have recently been made publicly available. The papers have been co-written with local Myanmar researchers and they are available as free downloads for the next month, forming part of a Special Edition which will be available in full soon.
New study stresses need to safeguard struggling health systems during mass vaccination campaigns
Image credit: Louie Rosencrans/CDC from flickr
An international team of researchers led by GSD Assistant Professor Dr Marco J Haenssgen have analysed the impact of mass vaccination campaigns, which are often used in global health efforts in low- and middle-income countries. Based on their findings, the researchers warn that there must be a strategy to safeguard and strengthen health systems with fewer resources in low- and middle-income countries if such campaigns are used in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.