News and Events

We are delighted to share WICID's first annual report outlining our work in our inaugural year under challenging circumstances. We are grateful for your support throughout this important time for WICID and hope that you can share in celebrating the progress our research and methodological work, the dissemination of our research through different channels, and the creation of a strong organisational scaffolding for our future work. You can find our 2019/20 Annual Report here.

WICID is excited to share the first video in our series, Think Development Out Loud. Dr. Mouzayian Khalil-Babatunde, our WICID Visiting Fellow, curated this pre-lockdown interview with Professor Gabrielle Lynch of PAIS Warwick about Professor Lynch's research and work. Thank you Mouz and Gabrielle for this excellent conversation! Watch the interview here.

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Yesterday, WICID hosted our third webinar, entitled "COVID-19 and South Asia: Gendering the Crisis." In a conversation chaired by Warwick's very own Dr. Rashmi Varma, the convener of WICID's Critical South Asia Group, panellists discussed the implications of gender on the pandemic and how we can view the pandemic through a gendered lens. You can watch the recorded webinar here.

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The Prime Minister has announced his Government's intention to merge the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development.

Professor Shirin Rai, Director, Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development, comments:-

"The fact that Boris Johnson’s administration has announced it will be merging the Foreign Office (FCO) with the Department for International Development (DfID) is not a surprise. It has been on the cards for a while. Johnson has previously said overseas aid needs to be spent “more in line with Britain’s political, commercial and diplomatic interests” and that Britain cannot keep operating as if it were a “Scandinavian NGO”.

"But it does signify yet another regressive step in the current British administration’s attitude to international relations and aid and its intent to restructure the British civil service. Alignment of trading and security interests, as articulated by the FCO seem to be taking centre stage, as DfID gets side-lined.

"How this merger affects the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) - a £1.5 billion pot that comes out of UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment – is yet to be seen. Any reduction in support for British universities’ work on international development will have serious consequences for future development of research, analysis and policy reform."

17 June 2020

Yesterday, WICID hosted our second webinar, entitled "COVID-19 and South Asia: Citizenship Matters." In a conversation chaired by Warwick's very own Dr. Rashmi Varma, the convener of WICID's Critical South Asia Group, panellists discussed the implications of the Citizenship Act and the pandemic. You can watch the recorded webinar here.

Another panel of excellent speakers will participate in our third and final webinar on Zoom on Tuesday 23 June, from 2-4pm (BST). Watch this space for more information and registration.

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