ODID, Oxford, June
New funding for Young Lives
Young Lives has forged a new partnership with the Wellcome Trust which will lead to a new stream of research focusing on wellbeing and mental health. The funding comes as the team prepare to launch their latest survey round, the first in person since the pandemic. Read more.
Women’s Gurgaon
In a new short film, young women share their aspirations and anxieties as part of the Women’s Gurgaon project, which is exploring the impact of rapid urbanization of the Indian city from the point of view of women and their everyday lives. Watch the film.
Humanitarian aid as performance?
When refugees use humanitarian assistance in rational but unexpected ways, aid agencies often fail to understand this ‘off script’ response. Naohiko Omata suggests identifying the roles actors in the aid system are expected to perform can help address mismatches between them. Read more.
Plane used for renditions located
An artist creating an animation for an ODID research project documenting human rights violations in 1970s South America has unexpectedly located an Argentinian naval plane used for the secret rendition of political prisoners between countries. Read more.
New UN report on green technology
A new report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) exploring the potential opportunities green technologies offer low-income countries draws on research by Professor Xiaolan Fu. Read more.
Publications
- Alkire, Sabina, Fanni Kövesdi, Elina Scheja and Frank Vollmer (2023) ‘Moderate Multidimensional Poverty Index: Paving the Way Out of Poverty‘. Social Indicators Research
- Bjola, Corneliu, and Michaela Coplen (2023) ‘Digital Diplomacy in the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Lessons and Recommendations‘. In Paul Webster Hare, Juan Luis Manfredi-Sánchez and Kenneth Weisbrode (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Diplomatic Reform and Innovation, PalgraveCohen, Robin (2023) ‘‘Will Sunak’s ‘Stop the Boats’ policy have perverse consequences? A research agenda’, COMPAS Working Paper No 163
- Dirik, Dilar (2023) ‘Mekap – A Social History of the “Terrorist Shoe” that Fought ISIS‘. In Benjamin Abrams and Peter Gardner (eds) Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics, University of Michigan Press
- Donald, Aletheia, Cheryl Doss, Markus Goldstein and Sakshi Gupta (2023) ‘Sharing responsibility through joint decision-making and implications for intimate-partner violence: evidence from 12 Sub-Saharan African Countries’, Review of Economics of the Household
- Omata, Naohiko (2023) ‘The role of developmental ‘buzzwords’ in the international refugee regime: Self-reliance, resilience, and economic inclusion’, World Development
- Perez-Alvarez, Marcello, and Marta Favara (2023) ‘Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India‘, Journal of Population Economics
- Sandhu, Poonam (2023) ‘A deconstructive approach to refugee self-reliance: the case of the Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement‘ RSC Working Paper 139
- Sharma, Amogh Dhar (2023) ‘Political Mobilization in an Era of ‘Post-Truth Politics’: Disinformation and the Hindu Right in India (1980s-2010s)’. In RP Machado and T Vargas-Maia (eds) The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South, Routledge