Research News
Why I chose the GSD MASc - Karolina's Story
Our innovative MASc in Global Sustainable Development offers a unique opportunity to join a community of transdisciplinary experts and practitioners with a passion for research and teaching. We spoke to one of our current students Karolina, to understand why she pursued postgraduate study and find out more about her experiences of the course.
GSD professor presents indigenous community research at science festival
A member of our Global Sustainable Development department recently presented their research at the first ever Resonate Festival of Science and Technology in Leamington Spa.
Dr Camilla Audia - Assistant Professor of GSD who leads our Health and Sustainable Development and Addressing Disasters for Sustainable. Development undergraduate modules - presented her research on indigenous communities in Burkina Faso at the festival’s first event, which focused on projects related to weather.
Professor Mandy Sadan Interview: Reflections on Ceasefires in Myanmar
Professor Mandy Sadan was interviewed by the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), Burma's largest independent media network for their podcast series 'DVB Reads'.
Congratulations to our first MASc GSD graduates!
We are proud to celebrate the success of our very first graduating cohort of MASc GSD students. Not only are our eleven graduates the first to complete a postgraduate degree in the School for Cross-faculty Studies, they are also the University’s first ever students to be awarded the new degree of Master of Arts and Science at Warwick.
Teaching and Tutoring Excellence Awards: School for Cross-faculty Studies Success!
We are extremely proud of Dr Gioia Panzarella (Global Sustainable Development) and Dr Bryan Brazeau (Liberal Arts) for winning the 2022 Warwick Awards for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTE)! The WAPTE Team received more nominations than ever before this year from both students and staff, so it is a real testament to their commitments to personal tutoring to be acknowledged at this level.
Join us for our first annual GSD PhD Symposium!
The GSD Department is pleased to be hosting its first annual PhD Symposium on Friday 1 July 2022! This event will be taking place in the new Faculty of Arts Building, FAB5.03.
The Symposium will provide an opportunity for our first cohort of PhD students to showcase their research. The Symposium will also open discussions around this year’s theme of transdisciplinary research.
- Further details and a programme for the day can be found here.
- The Symposium is a free one-day event. Staff and students from across the University are very welcome to attend.
- Please complete our registration form to confirm your attendance.
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.
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.