High profile for International Development
In this edition of ID@OU we have the first news about The Open University’s new Masters in Global Development programme, the successor to its hugely popular and influential Development Management Masters.
And we talk to two academics (pictured) about the role that our International Development and Inclusive Innovation expertise is playing in the space science research group AstrobiologyOU, recently constituted following a £6.7 million grant to the university.
There’s also news about an innovative workshop we are running with the African Network for Internationalisation of Education (ANIE).
Finally, ID@OU has joined with all The Open University’s social media accounts to mark International Women’s Day on Sunday 8 March – our contribution celebrates academics with interests in inclusion, gender economics and transitional justice. Topics this newsletter will no doubt be revisiting later in the year.
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News and research round-up
What’s international development got to do with space science?
Dr Shonil Bhagwat and Dr Alessandra Marino describe how International Development and Inclusive Innovation was crucial to gaining a £6.7 million Research England grant for the OU’s Astrobiology research group, and what IDII’s input will mean. Read more…
Open University’s new MSc in Global Development launches
Students can sign up for the OU’s new postgraduate Development programme, starting in October, with an option to study on the Futurelearn platform. Read more…
Nairobi workshop offers ‘unique’ opportunity for early-career African scholars in international student migration
The Open University has joined forces with The African Network for Internationalisation of Education (ANIE) to host a fully funded workshop in Kenya exploring the migration of African students – the most mobile students in the world – and offering support to early career African scholars to develop their academic and grant writing skills. Read more…
‘Loads of engagement’ on Twitter for ID@OU International Womens’ Day promotion
ID@OU and The Open University highlighted the research of Dr Alessandra Marino, Dr Lorraine Mitchell and Dr Astrid Jamar to mark International Women’s Day on Sunday 8 March. See what they each had to say here… and here… and here…
Open University chooses international development projects to celebrate International Women’s Day
The university marked International Women’s Day with a news release highlighting its girls’ education projects IGATE-T, SAGE and GATE-GEC. Read more…
Opportunities
GCRF call for Climate Resilience Network Development Scoping grants
Climate Resilience Network Development Scoping grants are intended to support the building of new researcher-practitioner-policy maker teams to search for novel solutions for complex climate risks. Maximum award £200,000. Deadline 25 March. Read more…
GCRF Networking grants
The awards provide up to £25,000 to support collaborations between developing countries and the UK and to hold networking events aimed at addressing global challenges. The call is open to all disciplines. Deadline 31 March. Read more…
Call for paper for writing workshops in Nairobi for African scholars
See News story (above). This workshop on 13-15 July is an opportunity for early career African scholars working on international student migration to develop their academic writing skills to enable them to publish in international English language journals. Deadline for submission of papers is 31 March. Read more…
GCRF 'Conflict Intersections' Global Partnership Development Awards
This call has a particular focus on addressing the needs of vulnerable and at-risk groups facing multidimensional, intersecting and compounding risks and challenges, including those which cross borders and/or are multi-scalar and multi-temporal. Closing date 3 June. Read more…
Events
The role of the state in innovation (Open University International Development Seminar Series)18 March, 12:00-14:00, CMR11, The Open University, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
This lunchtime seminar will hear from Professor Theo Papaioannou (Development Policy and Practice, Open University). A number of innovation theorists argue that it is necessary to rethink the state’s entrepreneurial role in society and welfare. This presentation insists that although the risk-taking argument of innovation theorists deserves further attention and analysis, it should not be abstracted from a holistic politico-theoretical approach to the state. Read more and register…
BOND Conference and Awards 2020
23–24 March, QEII Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE
Keynote speakers include environmental activist James Wakibia, Pan-African feminist Aya Chebbi and renegade economist Kate Raworth.
Read more and register…
The other road to serfdom: 'shock therapy' and the rise of the rentier class in post-Soviet economies (International Development Seminar Series)
1 April, 12:00-14:00, Charles Pinfold Heron Room, Level 4, The Open University, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
This lunchtime seminar will hear from Dr Balihar Sanghera (Sociology, University of Kent). In a reversal of the classical ideal of a ‘free market’, neoliberalism has promoted and celebrated rent extraction, sometimes over wealth creation. Some post-Soviet economies seek to extricate themselves from neoliberalism through alternative economic imaginaries, such as the Eurasian Economic Union and the Belt and Road Initiative. Read more and register…
Development Studies Association annual conference DSA 2020
17–19 June, University of Birmingham
Early bird registration closes 7 April; call for funding closes 18 March. Read more…
