GDI June 2025 digest
Blogs
• GDI PGRs have published a blog on ‘waiting as method’ on fieldwork
• GDI research across disciplines convenes on environmental justice
• Richard Heeks as ‘what would “positive development studies” look like?’
• GDI recently hosted a webinar: no blood in my mobile: regulating foreign suppliers
• Seth Schindler published a short essay for Global Policy Journal’s website, alongside Jessica DiCarlo: ‘What did you do during the Trump Times?’
Publications
Smith Ouma and coauthors published an open-access book chapter titled ‘Innovating participation to expand water and sanitation access under a special planning area in Mukuru informal settlements, Nairobi’ in Di Giovanni, A., & Bercovich, L. (eds) Legal Empowerment in Informal Settlements: Grassroots Experiences in the Global South, Routledge.
Md Moslah Uddin and David Lawson published ‘Creating social capital for the poorest women – evidence from BRAC’s Ultra Poor Graduation program’ in Development in Practice.
Pritish Behuria and Gerald Arhin (UCL postdoc and former GDI PGR) published ‘Why do countries invest in geological investigations for minerals? A comparative analysis of contrasting outcomes in Ghana and Rwanda’ in Geoforum.
Pritish also published ‘Offshore Dependencies: The Adverse Incorporation of African Countries in Global Wealth Chains’ in Brown Journal of World Affairs.
Members of the Sustainable Forest Transitions team published ‘Sustainable forest transitions: A new analytical framework to understand social and ecological outcomes of reforestation’ in One Earth.
Sophie van Huellen published a policy brief with Fuad Mohammed Abubaker – ‘Financing the Ghanaian Cocoa Sector’.
Bina Agarwal co-authored an open access publication in Nature Sustainability: ‘Ten principles for transforming economics in a time of global crises’.