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‘The latest significant step in the UK’s development agenda’ 
In this information-packed blog, economists Professor Susan Newman (Open University) and Dr Sara Stevano (SOAS) make the argument that this move is the culmination of a trajectory. Read more…

Africa pharma e-book is in Palgrave’s top five all time downloads for open access

The freely available Making Medicines in Africa,  based on OU research led by Professor Maureen Mackintosh, has had more than 69,000 downloads so far. Read more…

Stuck in a pandemic: are international students migrants? 

The coronavirus crisis has further exposed the marginalization of international students in migration research and policy, argue Professor Parvati Raghuram and Dr Gunjan Sondhi. Read more…

Grenfell Tower, COVID-19, structural racism and resistance

Professor Steve Tombs marks the third anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire with an impassioned piece for the Harm and Evidence Research Collective, making the point that the effects of class and ethnic inequality which framed Grenfell are even more visible and more harshly experienced three years on. Read more…

Securing a globally fair diffusion of COVID-19 vaccines

Overcoming ‘vaccine nationalism’ and combating COVID-19 will require global application of a ‘justice in innovation’ that is non-ideal – one that is based on empirically true assumptions rather than abstract constructions or philosophical devices. Professor Theo Papaioannou explains how this might work. Read more…

COVID-19 shows why we must socialise the food system – but think more broadly than ‘farmer autonomy’

Dr Lorena Lombardozzi talks to Professor Matt Huber, Associate Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, about his article arguing for the reform of world food production along socialist lines, but refuting the idea that this means a return to rural smallholder agriculture. Read more and watch…

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