31 March 2025
DID News March
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 | King's College London 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.