Past Events
- Re-negotiating patriarchy in a challenging environment: Stories of change from Bangladesh
- Selecting the ‘Best’? Competing Dimensions of Politician Quality in the Developing World
- India - Ireland Relations
- Advancing SDG2- Agricultural Commercialisation, nutritional status, and food security of smallholder cassava farming households in Southwestern Nigeria
- Entrepreneurial Alliances at the Edges: How Collective Credit Dynamics in Microcredit Groups Empower Marginalised Women
- UCDVO: Quality and Impact in International Volunteering
- Sustainable Development Goals
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Re-negotiating patriarchy in a challenging environment: Stories of change from Bangladesh
How do individuals and communities challenge deeply entrenched systems of patriarchy? What does it take to spark meaningful change insocieties where gender roles are tightly prescribed? These are the pressing questions at the heart of the upcoming talk with Professor Emerita Naila Kabeer from the Department of International Development and International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics. Drawing from her extensive research and fieldwork in Bangladesh, Dr. Kabeer will share stories of resilience, empowerment, and transformation in the face of structural barriers.
Speaker: Dr. Naila Kabeer
Date: 12th February 2025
Time: 12 - 1 PM
Venue: F301, Newman Building
Selecting the ‘Best’? Competing Dimensions of Politician Quality in the Developing World
What makes a politician truly effective? Is it their ability to follow through on promises, their vision for the future, or their knack for managing competing demands? Political leadership is all about making tough choices and earning public trust, but that's no simple answer to what makes someone the “best”-or is it? Join Dr Vegard Iversen, Head of the Department of Livelihoods & Institutions at the University of Greenwich, as he explains what truly shapes effective political leadership.
Speaker: Dr Vegard Iversen
Date: 22nd January 2025
Time: 12 - 1 PM
Venue: F301, Newman Building
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India - Ireland Relations
Speaker: H.E. Mr. Akhilesh Mishra
Date: 14th November, 2024
Time: 11 AM
Venue: F301, Newman Building
Advancing SDG2- Agricultural Commercialisation, nutritional status, and food security of smallholder cassava farming households in Southwestern Nigeria
Speaker: Dr. Olutosin Otekunrin
Date: 14th May, 2024
Time: 2.00 PM
Venue: SPIRe Boardroom, F301, Newman Building
Entrepreneurial Alliances at the Edges: How Collective Credit Dynamics in Microcredit Groups Empower Marginalised Women
Speaker: Supriya Garikipati, Full Professor in Sustainable Development, University College Dublin
Date: April 19, 2024
Time: 10AM-12PM
Venue: University of Bradford
UCDVO: Quality and Impact in International Volunteering
Speaker: Hilary Minch, Manager at UCD Volunteers Overseas
Date: 27th March 2024
Time: 11:00 AM
Venue: G103 ART, Newman Building
Sustainable Development Goals
Speakers: Dr. Tara Bedi, Dr. Marta Talevi, Prof. Patrick Paul Walsh
Date: 28th February, 2024
Time: 2.00 PM
Venue: Lecture Hall Q, Newman Building
A Model of Community Engagement by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) is a South African non-profit organisation that engages in research, community interventions, policy formation, service delivery, education and training. For three decades, CSVR has worked to understand violence, heal its effects, reconcile communities and build sustainable peace in South Africa, the continent and elsewhere in the world. CSVR provides technical support and works with individuals and communities, to focus on the wide range and forms of violence and conflict, including collective and interpersonal, political and criminal, and state and social violence. In this presentation, Naledi Joyi, Gender Officer at CSVR, will discuss the organisation's approach to community interventions, which is based on participatory research approaches, believed to yield more efficient and effective context-specific solutions. This approach is premised on community building, social cohesion, and sustainable capacity building; CSVR’s mission of promoting sustainable peace ensures that interventions are community-led and solutions are localised for communities to fit the community’s context. CSVR’s integrated model of working with communities highlights the importance of knowledge co-creation with community members because they are experts in their lived realities. This community model is guided by principles of theories of community work, community psychology and the experiences of working in the community. There are various meanings of community, which are underpinned by different characteristics like geographical location, shared values, interests, belief systems, language, religion, and age. Naledi Joyi will discuss the methodology used in a recent research report that explored the context-specific factors which enabled the continuous rise of Rape in a rural town in the Eastern Cape, called Lusikisiki.
Conference Details
Date30th November 2023
Time12pm
FeeFREE
LocationF301 Newman Building, or Online
OrganisersSPIRe
The Plausibility of Micro-level Aid Effectiveness: Evidence from the Cacao Cadena in Colombia
A talk by Dr Sam Brazys on the topic 'The Plausibility of Micro-level Aid Effectiveness: Evidence from the Cacao Cadena in Colombia.'
Conference Details
Date11th October 2023
Time12pm
FeeFREE
LocationF301 Newman Building, or Online
OrganisersSPIRe