✨ @developmentuea.bsky.social's conference asked: what’s changed, what hasn’t, & what new challenges face gender & development today?
Selected papers will appear in The Handbook of Gender & Development: Critical Engagements with Gender & Social Justice.
Read more: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/09/09/g...
✍️ Join editors from Development In Practice for tips on getting published
📅 9 Oct, 10am (UK)
Get tips on
▪️ Pitching for a journal article
▪️ The peer review process
▪️ Common mistakes in journal submissions
👉 Find out more and register now: buff.ly/aXNAqtI
Four key research areas drive our mission:
🌍 Accelerating social change
🌱 Achieving wellbeing
🥬 Boosting adaptation and resilience
♻️ Reaching net zero emissions
Stay informed about our #ClimateResearch projects and updates: tyndall.ac.uk/research ⬇️
📰 Our UNESCO Chair Newsletter – Summer 2025 is live!
Edited by our partners at Tribhuvan University, Nepal, it features global updates on adult learning & social transformation 🌍
🔗 Read more: sway.cloud.microsoft/uI0acLa0uJVu...
Robert Chambers inspired generations of activists and thinkers. You can now (re)discover his work for free thanks to Practical Action Publishing and @ids.ac.uk
Download at practical-action.org/t/cr/AQiuChC...
Thinking of doing a PhD? SENSS funds student-led projects across 8 UK universities, including UEA. You design the research, find a supervisor, and can collaborate with partners.
Apply from October for a 2026 start - now’s the time to start planning: senss.ac.uk/senss-student-led-competition
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📰 Our newsletter just went out - give it a quick check here:
✅ Featuring @diis.dk's "Syria in Transition", picks on Water and Marine Ecosystems, a webinar on civil society in shrinking public space and the usual picks, calls, vacancies and opinions from our community
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What happens when the world’s most powerful architect and funder of development cooperation seeks not only to withdraw, but to dismantle the very norms, institutions, and multilateral frameworks it once championed?
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2317
New degree alert! 🌱
Curious about our new BSc #SustainableDevelopment?
It’s all about tackling the big issues—climate, inequality, sustainability—and shaping a better future.
Watch the video to find out what makes this course stand out:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9oE...
New paper now online in @natureandspace.bsky.social
'Towards a transformative approach to just rural transitions: Landscape restoration in the Scottish highlands'
W/ Adrian Martin, Janet Fisher & @mathildegingembre.bsky.social
@developmentuea.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/2514...
📢 Job alert!
Our school is hiring a Teaching Fellow in Global Development.
🗓️ 6-month post starting Jan 2026
💰 £38,784–£46,049
🌍 Focus: Geography & Global Development
🧭 Includes UK field course on legacies of empire
Apply by 22 Sept 2025:
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/17...
New FutureLearn course! 🌱
Environmental Justice for Global Nature Restoration - learn how #justice and #sustainability go hand-in-hand
Designed by DEV's Adrian Martin & Iokiñe Rodríguez
🔗 Enrol: www.futurelearn.com/courses/just...
📚 New blog alert!
Boys’ disengagement from #education is a growing crisis—and it’s time we addressed it.
Our consortium (UEA, @equimundo.bsky.social & @unesco.org) is tackling harmful #gender norms through the Lifting Barriers project.
Read more: www.gpekix.org/blog/dont-fo...
🌍 What does “development” mean for those left behind?
Join leading African scholars to rethink the future of development in Africa.
🗓 19 Aug | 10am SAST | 6pm AEST
🎙 Karuri-Sebina | Moloi | Gebremariam
🎤 Facilitator: Yirga Woldeyes
#DSAAwebinars
t.co/UaC80z0EcZ
🔍 Interested in #gender research that crosses boundaries?
Our Gender and Its Intersections group brings together scholars from across all faculties, from development and law to art, media, and health.
Driving inclusive, intersectional #feminist research.
🔗: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
Wildfires pose a worldwide danger. UEA and Willis have teamed up to combat escalating wildfire threats using advanced science and innovative tools.
🔍 Enhanced modeling
🏘️ Fire risk in cities
🌍 Insights driven by climate
🔗 tyndall.ac.uk/news/launch-...
#WildfireSafety #ClimateAction
What’s so special about studying Global Development at UEA?
Our approach is all about tackling poverty, inequality, climate change & wars, with critical thinking, interdisciplinarity, and a real desire for social change at the core.
Watch this video to know more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYZK...
One of our joint working groups with @devcomms.bsky.social has an interesting call for workshops out!
Apply by 20 September!
www.eadi.org/news-2/re-es...
Be sure to join us for our next Open Day on September 6 to see the campus for yourself. You'll be able to:
✨ Meet our staff and students
🏫 Tour the campus
📚 Discover our courses
Book your place now: bit.ly/40Vx81e
#UKUniversity #ThisIsUEA #UniOpenDay
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Just ONE DAY left to register to join us at our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference this September #Tyndall25UEA
🎓 Chevening Scholarships are open!
Study a fully funded MA at UEA’s School of Global Development.
👉 chevening.org | uea.ac.uk/about/school-of-global-development/postgraduate
Big congratulations to our colleague @martinscott2010.bsky.social! 🏆
His co-authored book is shortlisted for the 2025 MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards.
Winners will be announced at the MeCCSA Conference, 4–6 Sept at Edinburgh Napier.
Read more: www.meccsa.org.uk/meccsa-outst...
We’re excited to invite you to Summit Photo, our brand new event bringing together world-renowned photographers, explorers and policy experts to ask how photography can address today's global challenges.
Taking place 26-28 September, book your tickets today 👉 rgs.org/events/upcom...
📷 Sue Flood
New piece from international researchers led by DEV Rachel Carmenta published on Current Opinion Environmental Sustainability:
“Unveiling pervasive assumptions” challenges the idea that poverty drives biodiversity loss & offers new models for equitable #conservation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Today's read 📖 On developing guiding principles for creating climate #adaptation targets to increase their robustness
Affiliate Member of the Tyndall Centre and Honorary Research Fellow Andrew Kythreotis and other authors in @plosclimate.org ➡️
Free course alert! 📚
This August, explore how #media shapes global development in our FutureLearn course:
Why Media Matters for Global Development 🌍
Learn how media can tackle poverty & inequality.
Enrol: www.futurelearn.com/courses/medi...
Did you know UEA’s School of Global Development is +50 years old? 🎉
From pioneering work in #ClimateChange and #education to partnerships across the globe, we've been at the forefront of research, teaching, and impact in development.
Watch our video 50 Years of DEV: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMwS...
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There are only three weeks left to apply for the Mid-Career Fellowships. The opportunity supports researchers in the humanities and social sciences to pursue a significant research project and engage the public with their findings. Apply now: buff.ly/VOWVPuC
Meet Shariff Hakim, MA Education & Development grad from UEA! 🎓
From Ghana to Norwich via a @britishcouncil.bsky.social Scholarship, Shariff’s journey is all about transforming #education for underserved communities.
Next stop: advocacy, policy, & youth empowerment.
www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...
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New Publication Alert! 🗞️
Zeynep Durmaz & DEV colleague Heike Schroeder published a powerful piece on how Indigenous Peoples are pushing back against carbon markets & #CarbonColonialism in UN climate talks.
Read more: www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/13...
