In 2023-24, Young Lives carried out Round 7 of their study, 21 years since it began. The ‘Attrition Report: Round 7’ shows that an average 81.0% of participants remain part of the study across all three countries – Ethiopia, India and Peru. Read the report here.

Professor Corneliu Bjola has written an article for NATO Review exploring the annulment of Romania’s presidential election, not merely as an isolated event, but as a potential manifestation of a broader, long-term hybrid warfare strategy.

Ecuador’s presidential election is the focus of an article by Malvika Gupta in The Conversation. She argues that the Indigenous movement will be key to the outcome in the runoff to be held in April.

Two new contributions to the ODID Blog are now online. In ‘Bad Bunny takes on pressures pushing communities to emigrate’, Carlos Vargas-Silva looks at the use of music to highlight issues around gentrification, corruption and the forced emigration of local populations. A second blog, on Citizenship, draws from a recent ODID roundtable highlighting the range of research that relates to this topic, including denationalisation, dual citizenship, migration and citizenship in Africa, labour politics and urban citizenship in Argentina, and colonialism.

The Refugee-Led Research Hub has a new blog (available on LinkedIn) reflecting on the Global Refugee Forum 2023 and posing the question ‘Does an increase in refugee participants necessarily lead to more meaningful participation?’.

Watch the video of the Climate Lecture ‘Market Failure: Climate Crisis, Green Energy, and the Limits of Capitalism’ with Professors Brett Christophers, held on 11 February. Christophers challenged many prevailing narratives on decarbonization and shed light on the economic and structural barriers preventing a full energy transition.

Chelsie Cintron, Madolyn Rose Dauphinais, Xinyi Du, Alexa Tabackman, Andrew Lenart, Ashley Laliberte, Jakob Dirksen & Pranay Sinha (2025) Enriching tuberculosis research by measuring poverty better: a perspective, BMC Global Public Health 3, 17. 

Daitian Li, Xiaolan Fu, Rajneesh Narula, Max von Zedtwitz & Beverly Wagner (2025) R&D Management Under Disruption and Uncertainty, R&D Management.

Thomas Malta-Kira, Xiaolan Fu, and Liu Shi (2025) The internationalization of science parks in China from a realist international relations perspective, Science and Public Policy, scae090.

Jing Cai, Mohammad Meki, and Simon Quinn (2025) Microfinance: Issue 3, VoxDevLit.

Wala Mohammed (2025) Hate speech in Sudan: A driver of conflict and displacement. Refugee-Led Research Series, Working Paper 5. Refugee-Led Research Hub.