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GSD Assistant Professor publishes new article in leading international journal

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:59:00 GMT

Dr Elizabeth Chant, an Assistant Professor in the Global Sustainable Development department, has published a new article, co-authored with her colleague Dr Natalia Gándara Chacana (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso), that examines the depiction of natural environments in historic British travel accounts.

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Dr Hita Unnikrishnan Publishes Poetic Reflections from the Frontlines of Community Energy in East Africa

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:53:00 GMT

Dr Hita Unnikrishnan, an assistant professor for the Institute for Global Sustainable Development, has published a collection of poems inspired by her community energy work across Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique. Her poetic chapter appears in the open-access volume Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa, which is freely available online.

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New study by GSD Teaching Fellow examines abandoned fishing gear and its impact on coastal livelihoods in Cameroon

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:12:00 GMT

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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Professor Elena Korosteleva publishes a landmark book on resilience and community in Central Eurasia

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:03:00 GMT

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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GSD Alumnus Isabel Coelho Govier Publishes Research in Warwick’s Reinvention Journal

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:22:00 GMT

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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GSD academic publishes special edition with acclaimed human trafficking journal

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:20:00 GMT

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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GSD academic publishes new book exploring finance sector impact on capitalism

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:59:00 GMT

A member of our teaching faculty has recently published a new book questioning whether the finance sector remains the true culprit for capitalism’s toxic effects.

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New publication: 'A Critical History of Poverty Finance' by Dr Nick Bernards

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:02:00 GMT

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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

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:19:03 GMT

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

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:51:00 GMT

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.