WICID is delighted to announce that the 2023-24 Annual Report is available online. This academic year WICID has continued to develop its work through research, partnerships, and dissemination. The Report highlights WICID and our partners’ achievements throughout the year.

WICID Management Team Member Briony Jones co-hosted an event with the UN Research Institute for Social Development at Geneva Peace Week. The event, ‘Bridging Generations: Co-Creating Solutions for Peace and Social Development’ focused on developing a manifesto for social development in the run up to the 2025 Second World Summit for Social Development. Briony was joined by Rebecca Morris from Education Studies, University of Warwick with whom she co-leads the Society and Culture Spotlight. Watch this space for further news on this collaboration!

WICID’s Briony Jones and Lesley Stahlecker from ANEKED (African Network Against Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances) co-produced an online teaching tool. Through ANEKED’s own participation in the transitional justice and peacebuilding process in The Gambia, combined with Briony’s extensive research, they have realised the importance of nurturing a transdisciplinary learning/content in Higher Education syllabi on transitional justice and how to work in the transitional justice field in a transdisciplinary way.

WICID published a new Think Development blog post titled ‘Gender–smart, Climate–smart: An Analysis of double mainstreaming benefits to housing’ authored by Hannah Jayne Robinson (Reall), Juanita Elias (University of Warwick) and research assistance provided by Mehru Shahid (University of Warwick).

Shirin Rai (WICID Advisory Board) published a new book Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring. There will be a book launch event on 15 November – you can find out more and register here.

WICID Advisory Board Member Oyinlola Oyebode co-authored two articles: ‘Does socioeconomic status modify how individuals perceive or describe their own health? An assessment of reporting heterogeneity in the Health Survey for England’; ‘Demographic and socio-economic inequalities in subjective wellbeing: analysis of repeated cross-sectional health surveys in England 2010–2019’.

WICID’s Vicki Squire (Steering Committee) and Briony Jones (Executive Management Team) have recently had a journal article published in the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, together with their co-authors from the Data and Displacement research team. The reflects on critical data literacy as a transformative method in the context of the datafication of the humanitarian sector, and the importance of developing co-produced tools of critical data literacy together with displaced communities. It is available to view here.