ODID Oxford June 2025 digest
SDG Impact Lab wins at Vice-Chancellor’s Awards
The Oxford SDG Impact Lab won the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Local Community Engagement for the Lab’s Oxford Young Sport Leaders Programme. Congratulations also go to Young Lives, OPHI, and OxValue.ai for all being Highly Commended in their categories. Full details
MSc student Hadia Azizi performs poetry about refugee experience on the BBC
Hadia Azizi performed a series of poems exploring the refugee experience, including three of her own works, in collaboration with the Odyssey Ensemble on BBC radio and in a concert at King’s Place in London. Full story and broadcast link
FMR75: Dangerous journeys
The latest issues of Forced Migration Review, FMR75 ‘Dangerous journeys: Saving lives and responding to missing migrants and refugees’ is now online. Read the issue at: https://www.fmreview.org/dangerous-journeys
Media
- Loren Landau has been speaking to the media about the US government’s decision to accept White South African ‘refugees’. See, for example, DW News, Newzroom Afrika, Al Jazeera, and Al Jazeera English Quotable.
- Amir Lebdioui has written (in Spanish) for El Paìs: ‘La próxima revolución tecnológica depende de América Latina y el Caribe’ (The next technological revolution depends on Latin America and the Caribbean).
- Amogh Dhar Sharma was interviewed by The Scroll for their ‘Meet the Writer’ section: ‘A permanent campaign machine’: How the professionalisation of politics has changed India after 2014
Publications
- Sabina Alkire ‘Eradicating poverty effectively: Concise, strategic data to tackle the greatest global challenge’, CDP Policy Brief No. 2, United Nations Committee for Development Policy, New York.
- Clement Amponsah ‘Resisting resilience: re-conceptualising “counter-conduct” to environmental (in)justices in Northern Ghana’, Development in Practice.
- Muhammad Meki ‘Unlocking investment in small firms through performance-linked financial contracts’, VoxDev, 2 June.
- Josh Parker Allen ‘The Donors are Everything’ Precarity and the Political Economy of Global Health Science’, Medicine Anthropology Theory.
- Tom Scott-Smith ‘Humility, autonomy, and simplicity: three principles for humanitarian design’, Third World Quarterly, 1-15.
- Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva ‘Job opportunities for refugees: how can host countries help?’, Economics Observatory, 15 May.
- Young Lives have two new policy briefs:
- Lightening the Load: New Evidence on the Impacts of Unpaid Care Work on Women and Girls
- Building Fairer Futures: Enabling Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Face of Climate Change
- Young Lives’ Kath Ford, Alan Sánchez and Santiago Cueto Caballero have contributed to the report ‘What Works to Reduce Child Poverty? Insights from Across the Globe’ from the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty.