The Sustainable Forest Transitions project is due to launch in 2023. In preparation, it’s hiring two Research Associates and three PhD studentships. Full details can be found here. Deadlines are 30^th January 2023 and 5^th January 2023 respectively.

GDI Merit Awards are now open. The Merit Awards provide three full scholarships for academically excellent professionals from Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia or Uganda to study a GDI campus-based master’s course commencing in September 2023. The scholarship covers tuition fees, living expenses, flights to the UK, and visa costs.  Applications close 31st December 2022. Full details.  

The African Cities Research Consortium have two new podcasts. The first on housing challenges in Freetown and the second an interview on community-led data collection and mapping. Listen or subscribe to them here: [Apple | Spotify | Buzzsprout | Google].

Sophie van Huellen published an article in The Conversation exploring financial speculation’s impact on the current food price crisis.

A new In Conversation GDI podcast, sees Richard Heeks sit down with Dr Basma Albanna to discuss her work on data-powered-positive-deviance.

A recent open access paper in Nature looks at how to balance national economic policies for sustainable development.