IDD Birmingham March news
Governance and Social Development Resource Centre researchers William Avis, Sian Hebert, Iffat Idris, and Sithandiwe Mujuru have published multiple rapid evidence reviews and evidence summaries under the Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy (K4DD) programme. K4DD, which is delivered by a consortium of six leading development and diplomacy organisations, is funded by the UK’s FCDO.
Rachel Gisselquist is collaborating with UNU-WIDER as a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow in the Strengthening safety nets in post-conflict and humanitarian contexts project.
Publications
- Rachel M. Gisselquist, Patricia Justino, and Andrea Vaccaro (eds.), Fragile Aid: Development Cooperation in Weak States and Conflict Contexts. Oxford University Press (April 2025). Open access.
- Rachel M. Gisselquist and Andrea Vaccaro (eds.), How States Respond to Crisis: Pandemic Governance across the Global South. Oxford University Press (March 2025). Open access.
- Michael Danquah, Kunal Sen, and Rachel Gisselquist, Structural transformation: Domain report, ACRC Research Report. Manchester: African Cities Research Consortium, The University of Manchester, 2025.
- Arnold, Christian (Forthcoming): “Deep Learning’”, in: Liebe, Ulf, Handbook of Quantitative Methods in Sociology, Edward Elgar.
- Arnold, Christian and Marcel Neunhoeffer (forthcoming): “Working with Synthetic Data: The Do’s, Dangers and Don’ts”, in: Sage Research Methods: Research and Data Literacy.
Media engagement/blogs
- Merisa Thompson (with Maryam Rezaei) wrote a blog, ‘Resilient food systems, resilient futures: Why SIDS must drive an agri-food systems agenda at COP30’, ODI Global
- Zenobia Ismail has published a blog, Is state capture coming to the United States? Americans can learn to recognise it from the experiences of other countries. The blog is the first released on the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre. (GSDRC)’s website.