How have opinion polls acquired such ubiquity and widespread legitimacy in modern India? A new project by Amogh Dhar Sharma will explore.

Young Lives appointed Marta Favara as their new Director – read her thoughts on the study’s successes and three exciting new areas of work.

John Gledhill won funding for a project that will analyse and categorise the use of music as a tool for peacebuilding by actors in the UN system.

The latest issue of Forced Migration Review examined how digital technologies are being used by – and sometimes against – forcibly displaced people.

Our alumnus Sam Ritholtz was co-winner of an award for the best doctoral thesis in international studies for his analysis of paramilitary violence against LGBTIQ+ people in Colombia from the 1980s to the 2000s.

Doctoral student Clement Amponsah wrote about his work on decolonising ‘resilience’ and the role of local communities and Indigenous peoples.

Sabina Alkire and Marta Favara were quoted on the causes and effects of food poverty in an article for the FT.

Alexander Betts, Maria Flinder Stierna, Naohiko Omata, Olivier Sterck, ‘The economic lives of refugees’, World Development

Maxim Bolt(2024) Passing on, Passing Around, and Passing Through: Urban Inheritance in South Africa as Circulation. In Chris Hann and Deborah James (eds) One Hundred Years of Argonauts: Malinowski, Ethnography, and Economic Anthropology, Berghahn

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

Jennifer Lopez, Jere Behrman, Santiago Cueto, Marta Favara, Alan Sanchez(2024) Late-childhood foundational cognitive skills predict educational outcomes through adolescence and into young adulthood: Evidence from Ethiopia and Peru, Economics of Education Review

Adeel Malikand Maya Tudor (2024) Pakistan’s Coming Crisis, Journal of Democracy

Nicolás Pazos, Marta Favara, Alan Sanchez, Douglas Scott, Jere Behrman (2024) Long-term effects of early life rainfall shocks on foundational cognitive skills: Evidence from Peru, Economics & Human Biology

Alan Sanchez, Marta Favara, Margaret Sheridan, Jere Behrman (2023) Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries . World Development Amogh Dhar Sharma(2024)

Professionalization of Political Communication in Developing Countries: Methodological Perspectives from India’s Election Campaigns, Political Communication Report