IDD, University of Birmingham News – August 2025
Publications
- David Hudson and Soomin Oh (with Matthew Winters et al). ‘Public Preferences for Reallocating Aid in the Presence of Alternative Donors’. Political Research Quarterly.
- Soomin Oh and David Hudson (with Jennifer Hudson). ‘Public preferences on the economy or environment trade-off in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States’. Politics & Policy.
- Soomin Oh and David Hudson (with Felipe Torres-Raposo et al). Survey Data on Attitudes Towards Foreign Aid & Development in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the U.S. Scientific Data.
Project news
- Dr Emeka Njoku was awarded the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants | The British Academy for a project titled “Everyday Violence and (Im)mobility Experiences of LGBTQ+ Persons in Nigeria and the UK”
- Merisa Thompson won a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for her research project: ‘Cultivating Power: Gender, Race and Food in the (Post)Colonial Political Economy’
Events
The Thinking and Working Politically Community of Practice will be hosting an online webinar on the 3rd of September at 3pm BST. The webinar is titled : “What Future for International Democracy Support”. Rachel Kleinfeld and Richard Youngs from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace will explore whether and how necessity may be turned into opportunity, drawing on their recent paper : “What Future for International Democracy Support?”, co-authored with Thomas Carothers. Kojo Asante from the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development and Stefan Kossoff, from FCDO will also join the panel as discussants.
Register or find more details on the TWP website.