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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

📢 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...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

📚 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...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🎓 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

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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...

Placard saying 'Climate Justice Now', held by hand of a white person in a march

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Our own @martinscott2010.bsky.social has published a new policy brief for the #G20, calling for stronger support for independent, diverse, and financially viable media. Part of the #M20 initiative ahead of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg. Read it here: media20.org/wp-content/u...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Our 2025–26 Newsletter is here! 📰 A vibrant year in review, featuring student voices, alumni stories, new modules, and groundbreaking research. Dive into the highlights of our teaching, research, and impact. Read more: assets.uea.ac.uk/f/185167/x/9...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Discover #Geography at UEA! 🌍 Explore how we tackle global challenges—from #ClimateChange to urban inequality—through our innovative Geography programmes. Offered via Global Development & Environmental Sciences, with real-world impact at the core. Find your path: www.uea.ac.uk/study/subjec...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Big congratulations to @reetiks.bsky.social, named one of the BBC's 2025 New Generation Thinkers! Selected for her work on gender, climate, and migration, she’ll bring bold research to new audiences via BBC Radio 4. Read more: www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Thanks to Rebecca Elmhirst, Rebecca Stonehill, Hannah Claxton, Helen Baczkowska & Sabine Virani for a brilliant 2025 Piers Blaikie Lecture! @gejgroup.bsky.social A rich dialogue on feminist political ecology in Norfolk — beautifully captured in a poem by Rebecca Stonehill. 📸 Photos: John Chirwa

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Join us for the 2025 Piers Blaikie Lecture at UEA! 📣 This year’s theme: Feminist Political Ecology in the #Norfolk Landscape — a dialogue between scholars, activists & community voices on land, gender & justice. Book here: store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

#OpenAccess #NewPublication “The ‘How’ of Transformation”: 4 principles for justice-centred responses to the climate & #biodiversity crises, grounded in research across the Global South. By colleagues Mark Tebboth, Rachel Carmenta, and Clare Shelton Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Join us 18 June at UEA for the 2025 Piers Blaikie Lecture: “Exploring the contours of feminist political ecology” @thenisd.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Voices from Norfolk and beyond on land, justice & hope. 🎟️ Free, but booking required: store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🌍 On #WorldEnvironmentDay, join us for the launch of a major new global report on #forests & #resilience, led by DEV colleague Rachel Carmenta. 5 June | 14:00 CEST (13:00 BST) Online roundtable with experts from science, policy & practice. Learn more: www.iufro.org/events/onlin...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

There’s still time to register for the upcoming Gender and Development conference at UEA this June. Join us for two days of critical discussion on the enduring importance of gender and social justice in an increasingly polarised world. Register here: store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Powerful new research from our colleague Dr Maria Abranches explores how women experience family reunion after the asylum process — highlighting resilience, #motherhood, and everyday acts of care. Read more: www.uea.ac.uk/health/under...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

#NewPublication #OpenAccess 🗞️🔓 New research by @martinscott2010.bsky.social & team show how most journalists in Sudan & the Philippines hadn’t heard of the #MediaFreedom Coalition, yet many still valued its narratives as moral support. Check this paper here: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Postdoc Opportunity at UEA! 🎓 Are you an early career researcher looking to grow your academic career? We are inviting applications for the prestigious @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowship (starting Autumn 2026). Deadline: 2 June 2025 Learn more: www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

A-level #Geography Teachers! Got students curious about studying geography at uni? Bring them to UEA’s Geography Taster Day on Tues 24 June! Explore uni life, join workshops & meet lecturers! Hosted by Schools of Global Development & Environmental Sciences Book now: forms.office.com/e/66vnzUtnCF

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Big news! Our review on gender in food systems, led by DEV Professor Nitya Rao, is featured in a special @nature.com collection on gender equality. Honoured to be part of this global conversation. 🌍 Check the collection: www.nature.com/collections/...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Registrations are still open for the conference Gender and Development at UEA next month. Join us for two days of exploring the continued relevance of gender issues and social justice in a world marked by growing political and social polarisation. Register here: store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

#OpenAccess 🔓 New article by DEV colleague @stavinoha.bsky.social: "Grains of dust in the Aegean" reveals how migrants enact everyday resistance—insubordination, occupation, insurrection—against EU hotspot regimes. Ethnography exposes necropower’s limits & fragile acts of autonomy.

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Yesterday we had Sandra El Gemayel delivering a presentation at our EDU-DEV research seminar on how displaced Syrian and Iraqi children in Lebanon use play to navigate liminality, process trauma, and preserve their culture. Inspiring research showing #PlayMatters.

Sandra is in front of her powerpoint slides at the front of a classroom.

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Conservation in a Connected World 🌍 DEV’s Rachel Carmenta recently presented her Connected Conservation model (Biological Conservation, 2024) at @zslofficial.bsky.social Science and Conservation Event, exploring how #conservation must address wealth as a root driver of #climate crises.

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

New #OpenAccess #BookChapter Alert! 🔓📚 Interested in intergenerational #learning and decolonising #literacy? Check out the work by DEV Anuprita Shukla exploring how Nepal & India are rewriting literacy traditions across generations. Part of the UNESCO edited collection on family learning.

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New study alert 📄 Associate Professor David Girling (DEV-UEA) & Deborah Adesina analyse 589 UK charity mail images: • 51% depict Africa • 59% feature Global South women/children • Reveals gaps in family representation Full report: charity-advertising.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Free 4-week course: Why Media Matters for Global Development? @publicmedia.bsky.social Content covers: - Media representations of poverty, inequality, and development - Participatory and community media - Social media’s role in development campaigns Enroll now: www.futurelearn.com/courses/medi...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Gender & Development: Debates for a Changing World - registrations are open! Call for papers: Abstracts due 4 April 2025 Register: store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-...

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🌍 FREE 5-week #FutureLearn course: "What is Global Development?" Explore development through Nairobi's lens: - Media & trade - Urban challenges - Migration & economics Perfect prep for Global Development degrees! futurelearn.com/courses/global-development [Photos: Brian Otieno & David Girling]

Motorway in Nairobi with a bus on the right hand side and a lorry on the left hand side facing the camera

Painting of a brown fist on a wall over a saying AMREF Health Centre

Female artist is signing a paper in her studio

People collecting things from a mountain of waste

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

🌍 NEW MSc in Data Science for Global Development Launching Sept 2025! Equip yourself with cutting-edge skills in Python, data mining, and causal analysis to tackle global challenges. Taught by leading experts. www.uea.ac.uk/course/postg...

Two students sit together in a room checking a laptop with the words MSc Data Science for Global Development. New course for September 2025.

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

📢 Call for Papers & Delegates! Join us for #Gender & #Development: Debates for a Changing World 📅 19-20 June 2025, UEA, Norwich 📝 Submit your abstract by 21 March: gender.conference.dev@uea.ac.uk

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

PhD students in #DevelopmentStudies – join us for an online workshop on Epistemological Issues in Global Development on Nov 29! 🎓🌍 Check out the image for all the details - email dev.general@uea.ac.uk to sign up! #GlobalDevelopment #PhD #Research #Workshop #Epistemology

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