31 March 2025
DID News March 2025
Latest updates from the Department of International Development.
Welcome to this month's roundup of news, events, and publications from DID.
Jobs
Lecturer in International Development | Closing date: 01 May 2025.
Recent publications
Motivational Investments and Financial Incentives Ghatak, M. & Wahhaj, Z., 28 Mar 2025, In: Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization.
Replenishing Geographical Thinking on Depletion through and of Social Reproduction Guermond, V., Brickell, K. & Natarajan, N., Mar 2025, In: Antipode: a radical journal of geography.
Recent Events
Book Talk on "The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India" with Alpa Shah | King's College London 12 March 2025
Blogs, Media & Stories
What is the Salience of Arthur Lewis’ Ideas for Understanding Global Inequality Today? – Debating Development Research
by Dr Andy Sumner, 4 March 2025
Jose Ciro Martinez Wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Trust Prize
Congratulations to Jose Ciro Martinez, from DID, for being awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. Awarded annually by the Leverhulme Trust, the prize recognizes outstanding early-career researchers whose work has international impact and shows promise for future research. Each prize winner receives £100,000 to advance their research.
The award was formally recognised at gala dinner on the 5 March, which praised Jose's research methods quoting "Through inventive ethographic methodologies he as opened up new ways of examining the state revealing key yet undervalued dimensions of state power".
Podcasts & Videos
WORLD: we got this:
S6E7 Dam clever: is world's biggest hydro scheme a good idea? with Dr Barnaby Dye 10 March 2025
In the most recent WWGT podcast, Barnaby Dye, Mark Mulligan, and Clement Sefa-Nyarko discuss if the Grand Inga dam could potentially bring electricity to those 600 million in sub-Saharan Africa currently without.