News

• Amogh Dhar Sharma has won a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for a project that explores the role of opinion polls and psephology in Indian democracy. Read more.
• Watch a video introducing Amir Lebdioui’s new open access book, Survival of the Greenest, which explores how nations can adjust to the new dynamics of structural transformation induced by climate change.
• Sabina Alkire and Marta Favara were interviewed by the FT about the consequences of food poverty and the importance of finding powerful new policies to support people who live amid ‘forgotten’ wars and droughts.
• The latest issue of Forced Migration Review explores how digital technologies are being used by and against forcibly displaced people. Read a blog post introducing the issue.

Open Access Publications

• Alexander Betts, Maria Flinder Stierna, Naohiko Omata, Olivier Sterck, ‘The economic lives of refugees’, World Development
• Vittorio Bruni, Patrick Mutinda Muthui, Cory Rodgers and Olivier Sterck, ‘Refugee debt and livelihoods in Northern Kenya’. Report from the Refugee Economies Programme, Refugee Studies Centre
• Ashwiny O Kistnareddy, ‘Ambivalent encounters in Calais’, Journal of Intercultural Studies
• Adeel Malik and Maya Tudor, ‘Pakistan’s Coming Crisis’. Journal of Democracy
• Amogh Dhar Sharma, Professionalization of Political Communication in Developing Countries: Methodological Perspectives from India’s Election Campaigns . Political Communication Report