OPHI held a High-Level Side Meeting on multidimensional poverty at the 79th UN General Assembly in New York with a panel of global leaders. The meeting was co-hosted by the Federal Republic of Somalia and moderated by Sabina Alkire (OPHI Director) and Ricardo Nogales (Senior Researcher).  

Tom Scott-Smith (RSC Director) has a new book titled Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter (Stanford University Press), the final output of his Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project ‘Architectures of Displacement’.

In a new book on Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka (CUP), David Jackman reveals how syndicates shape life in Kawran Bazar, the largest marketplace in Bangladesh, and offers a new approach to understanding the nexus of crime and politics.

Watch the latest video in our series exploring how the multiple crises facing the world are transforming the issues ODID works on, with Alexander Betts discussing the impact on refugee studies.

The 3rd Refugee-Led Research Festival took place in Nairobi co-hosted by the Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH), ReDSS and Maseno University, showcasing a wide range of research conducted throughout East Africa.

Corneliu Bjola was interviewed by Der Spiegel on the legitimacy of humour as a tactic in digital diplomacy and the risks associated with its use by Ministries of Foreign Affairs in their digital communication.

Amogh Dhar Sharma was interviewed by WIRED about the BJP’s efforts to target and mobilise female voters in India using data insights and social media

Sabine Alkire has written (with Michelle Muschett, UNDP) an op-ed for IPS News on putting poverty and inequality back on the public agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Chris Adam featured in VoxDevTalks speaking about his research on macroeconomic adjustment and the post-Covid-19 recovery.

In an op-ed for the New York Times, Rajiv Shah, President of Rockefeller Foundation, wrote on the importance of addressing electricity coverage for dealing with poverty reduction and cited OPHI’s joint work with the Rockefeller Foundation.

Nikita Sud writes for Aeon about her passion for foraging wild food, how it connects her to place and environment, and helps her relate to fishing, farming, and pastoral communities at green energy ‘frontiers’ in the Global South.

Ashwiny O Kistnareddy (2024) ‘Refugee Memoirs: Kouamé’s Revenu des ténèbres (2018) and Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee (2019) and the challenge of refugee narratives’, Forum for Modern Language Studies

Ashwiny O Kistnareddy and Jaakko Heiskanen (2024) ‘Encountering Nations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 45 (5), 811-816