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📽️💡NEW VIDEO Is Demand for Migrant Labour Constrained? A Firm's Perspective in India

In the latest Key Research Takeaways video
@anvitaramachandran.bsky.social explores a firm's perspective on the constraints of migrant labour. @odid-qeh.bsky.social #EconJobMarket
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Is Demand for Migrant Labour Constrained? A Firm's Perspective in India
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November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Why do so many efforts to improve education in developing countries fail? Masooda Bano's new book shows how decades of donor-led decentralisation & community participation have failed to resolve learning crises, leaving millions out of school or struggling to learn
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November 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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🎓The first Oxford #Laidlaw Scholars have graduated!

18 months of student #leadership, #research & global #impact celebrated at Pembroke College with peers, partners & Profs.

Find out more: tinyurl.com/bdfrzwk2

🚨 Cohort 2026 Applications now open (Apply Now)
Deadline: 12pm on 6 Feb 2026

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November 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Job opportunity!

ODID and Linacre College seek applications for an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Development.

⏰ Deadline: 11 December

Full information: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New in ‘Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies’, a special issue on Revolutionary Cinemas, guest edited by ODID’s Dan Hodgkinson with @jennblaylock.bsky.social and Anita Afonu. journals.openedition.org/sources/3100
10-11 | 2025 Revolutionary Cinemas
Au croisement de l’histoire, de l’anthropologie et des film studies, ce double numéro thématique analyse les généalogies et incarnations multiples des cinémas révolutionnaires africains, du Maghre...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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The scale of Hurricane Melissa's devastation, seen just as the international community prepared for #COP30, emphasises that climate talks must ensure the needs of the poorest communities are met.

Read more in Sabina Alkire & Carlos Alvarado Quesada's ODID blog: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/blog/can-hur...
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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📽️💡NEW VIDEO Can Extreme Weather Affect Support for Democracy in sub-Saharan Africa?

Latest Key Research Takeaways video features Nicolas Cerkez on how droughts affect support for democracy across 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Can Extreme Weather Affect Support for Democracy in sub-Saharan Africa?
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November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Oxford's @tidecentre.bsky.social has launched the Nature’s Intelligence Studio - turning lessons from nature into new technologies for the energy transition and sustainability, with fair benefit-sharing for communities in biodiverse regions.

More info ⬇️ #COP30 #OxfordClimate
Oxford's TIDE Centre launches Nature’s Intelligence Studio at COP30 |
The University of Oxford’s TIDE Centre (Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre) has launched the Nature’s Intelligence Studio, a new programme to translate principles observed in
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November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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New online event!

Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 4pm GMT / 11am ET, for a book talk on ‘Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down’ with author Prof. Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University).
Moderated by Shivangi Kaushik (ODID)

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November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
New online event!

Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 4pm GMT / 11am ET, for a book talk on ‘Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down’ with author Prof. Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University).
Moderated by Shivangi Kaushik (ODID)

Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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📆ONLINE EVENT 07 Nov, 2pm GMT

Join to discover fully funded postgrad scholarship opportunities for talented African students passionate about leadership & community impact. #EconSky #funding

Suitable for MSc in Economics for Development @odid-qeh.bsky.social
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Postgraduate Scholarships Virtual Information Session
Join representatives from the University of Oxford, Sciences Po, University of Edinburgh, and University of Cambridge
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November 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Job opportunity! ODID and @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social seek applications for an Associate Professor in Development Economics.

⏰ Deadline: 8 December

Full information: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...
October 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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My new article in International Affairs (with Alicia Fjällhed): the Strategic Self explains how wartime digital diplomacy works—where communication becomes strategy. 1/3
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October 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Middle-income countries are the hidden epicentre of multidimensional poverty.

The global MPI 2025 by OPHI and UNDP finds that nearly two thirds of multidimensionally poor people live in middle-income countries.

Read the full report: bit.ly/globalMPI2025
October 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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How do multidimensionally poor people experience the double burden of poverty & climate change?

Join OPHI and UNDP for the launch of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025 on 17 Oct, 10am EDT, to hear high-level speakers share key findings from the report.

Register now: bit.ly/GMPI2025
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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🌍 #WorldMentalHealthDay
We’re proud contributors to the new @who.int Guidance on Mental Health Policy & Strategic Action Plans! 🧠💙
Read how Young Lives' evidence & findings continue to shape global change in mental health action: buff.ly/w5ILvKP
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Guidance on mental health policy and strategic action plans. Module 1. Introduction, purpose and use of the guidance
<p>Overview: WHO guidance on mental health policy and strategic action plans This Guidance provides a framework for strengthening governance, service delivery, workforce capacity and treatment, care…
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October 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Can redistribution change policy views?

Travis Baseler (@urochester.bsky.social), @thomasginn.bsky.social (@cgdev.org), Robert Hakiza (YARID), Helidah Ogude-Chambert (@odid-qeh.bsky.social) & Olivia Woldemikael (@thenewschool.bsky.social) on aid & attitudes toward refugees:

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October 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Debates over multiculturalism in Britain & Europe reveal that cultural diversity & integration must go hand in hand, writes Dr Jörg Friedrichs.

All @odid-qeh.bsky.social news: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/09/12/o...
September 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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🕊️ #InternationalDayofPeace
📖 New research from YL Peru (Ninos del Milenio) reveals how mothers’ exposure to the 1980–2000 Peruvian civil conflict still echoes today – affecting the socio-emotional development of the next generation.
Read more: www.younglives.org.uk/publications...
#PeaceDay
September 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Friends of Birzeit University has produced a guide for UK universities to have academic partnerships with Palestine.

Read more about this important piece of work on the @odid-qeh.bsky.social blog 👉 www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/blog/academi...
September 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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🌎Global frameworks need global thinking.

With #UNTourism, our Fellows developed the sector’s first #ESG reporting #framework, grounded in data from 600+ businesses across 5 countries.

Shape what comes next.
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#OxfordSDGImpactLab #Tourism #SDGs

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September 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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📣CSAE Conference 2026 Call for papers CLOSING

Want to present your research at #OxCSAE2026? Submit today!

The CSAE Conference brings together researchers from across the development economics community to discuss Africa.

⏰14 Sept, 23:59 BST
CSAE Conference 2026
CSAE Conference 2026: Economic Development in Africa
www.csae.ox.ac.uk
September 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Deadline approaching for these three vacancies, all with the project Choosing Islamic Conservatism:

· Qualitative Researcher in Balkans Islamic Studies, CIC
· Quantitative Researcher (Systematic Literature Review), CIC
· Qualitative Researcher, CIC

Details: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/content/vaca...
September 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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'Integration is indispensable precisely because we live in a multicultural society.'

@odid-qeh.bsky.social's Dr Jörg Friedrichs explores how debates over multiculturalism in Britain and Europe reveal that cultural diversity and integration must go hand in hand ⬇️
Expert Comment: If multiculturalism has failed, then what about
Jörg Friedrichs, Associate Professor of Politics at the Oxford Department of International Development, explores how debates over multiculturalism in Britain and Europe reveal that cultural diversity
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September 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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⏰The call for papers for the CSAE Conference 2026 is closing on Sunday (14 Sept).

If you want to present your paper at one of the largest economic development conferences in the world, make sure you submit this week! #EconSky
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-confere...

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Why should you attend the CSAE Conference?
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September 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM