WICID April 2025 news
WICID Policy Brief
WICID have recently revamped our Policy Brief Series with a new brief titled ‘Community Led Natural Resource Management – Lessons from Côte d’Ivoire’. Authored by Adou Djané Dit Fatogoma, Briony Jones, Mouzayian Khalil, Sita Akoko Kondo, and André Djaha Koffi, this brief reflects on the team’s research project on natural resource management and sustainable development in Côte d’Ivoire. The brief highlights the importance of joined up governance, adequate resourcing, and a partnership model for working with local communities. Please check it out and share!
New Publications by WICID members
- WICID Steering Committee member Sharifah Sekalala co-authored an article ‘A socio-legal critique of the commercialization of digital health in Sub-Saharan Africa’ published in Policy Studies. The article speaks to the ongoing project There is no app for this! Regulating the migration of health data in Africa led by Prof Sekalala.
- WICID Executive Management member Briony Jones has published her co-authored article (Open Access) titled ‘The power in re-telling research: a Cambodian community-based approach generating knowledge by subjects of study’ in Development in Practice.
- Briony Jones and Vicki Squire (WICID Steering Committee) have a new article published with Geopolitics: ‘You already know enough: Certainty and ignorance in data-driven humanitarianism’, explores data-driven humanitarianism and the way it shapes dynamics of certainty and ignorance in humanitarian reason. You can read the article here.
- Nicola Pratt has edited a Conversation Section for International Feminist Journal of Politics, entitled “Why Palestine is a Feminist Issue: A Reckoning with Western Feminism in a Time of Genocide”. It is available as Open Access for the next 3 months. Click here to read.
- Daeun Jung (WICID Research Assistant) has a new article titled ‘Complementary or Conflictual? Legitimation Struggles in the African Union – United Nations Peacekeeping Partnership’ published online (Open Access) in International Peacekeeping. The article identifies key areas of conflictual discourse in the AU-UN partnership and argues that complex inter-institutional dynamics are constructed in legitimation struggles of peacekeeping agents. In doing so, it contributes more broadly to the understanding of how partnership and legitimation work in contemporary international peacekeeping, as well as the relationship between them.
DEAR Centre Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Warwick Doctoral Education and Academia Research (DEAR) Centre is hosting the Inaugural Lecture ‘Achingly Academic: Critiquing, Demystifying and Hopefully Transforming the Academic Profession’ by Emily Henderson (WICID Steering Committee). This lecture emphasises the importance of looking inwards at the academic profession, not as a navel-gazing exercise but as a vital reflexive endeavour to ensure that academia is doing what it should be doing both within higher education institutions and in contributing to the wider public good mission of higher education. The Lecture will place on 15 May, 12:00-13:00 BST (followed by post-lecture reception). This is a hybrid event taking place in-person and online. Find out more information and register here.