Jose Ciro Martinez wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Trust Prize: Congratulations to Jose Ciro Martinez, from DID, for being awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. Awarded annually by the Leverhulme Trust, the prize  recognizes outstanding early-career researchers whose work has international impact and shows promise for future research. Each prize winner receives £100,000 to advance their research. The award was formally recognised at gala dinner on the 5 March, which praised Jose’s research methods quoting “Through inventive ethographic methodologies he as opened up new ways of examining the state revealing key yet undervalued dimensions of state power”.

Dam clever: is world’s biggest hydro scheme a good idea? The proposed Grand Inga dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo would be the largest power station in the world – if its ever built. After decades of delay, investors withdrawing, environmental concerns, and its ballooning $80bn price tag, does the dream still hold water? In this recording of the most recent WWGT podcast, Esau is joined by Barnaby Dye, Mark Mulligan, and Clement Sefa-Nyarko to discuss if the dam could potentially bring electricity to those 600 million in sub-Saharan Africa currently without.

Jayaseelan Raj gave the prestigious Ambedkar Memorial lecture at Edinburgh University on Caste, State and Development models in India Ambedkar Memorial Lecture | School of Social and Political Science

Motivational Investments and Financial Incentives Ghatak, M. & Wahhaj, Z., 28 Mar 2025, In: Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization.

Replenishing Geographical Thinking on Depletion through and of Social Reproduction Guermond, V., Brickell, K. & Natarajan, N., Mar 2025, In: Antipode: a radical journal of geography.

Decolonising GenAI use: formative assessment to stimulate critical thinking in International Development courses Guldberg, C., 24 Feb 2025, Assessment for Learning at King’s.

Depleted by Debt: ‘Green’ Microfinance, Over-Indebtedness, and Social Reproduction in Climate-Vulnerable Cambodia Guermond, V., Brickell, K., Natarajan, N., Parsons, L., Faye, G., Iskander, D., Ly Vouch, L., Michiels, S., Picchioni, F. & Green, N., 6 Feb 2025, In: Antipode: a radical journal of geography. 57, 2, p. 471-493

Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy Tillin, L., Feb 2025, Cambridge University Press.

No Development (Economics or Studies) Without Decolonisation Dutt, D., 1 Feb 2025, In: European Journal of Development Research. 103186.

‘Threatening Dystopias’: Taking an agrarian view of climate adaptation in the Sundarbans Natarajan, N., 16 Jan 2025, In: Society and Space.

Against standardisation: reflections on decolonisation, logic and economics Venkatachalam, R., Diviya & Kumar, S., 2025, In: New Mathematics and Natural Computation.

Dispossession, Refugees, and Migrant Labour in the Middle East and Palestine Ziadah, R. & Hanieh, A., 2025, Contesting Colonial Capitalism in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Kapoor, D. (ed.). Routledge, p. 213-222 10 p.