Since I'm nearing the completion of my 3rd year of PhD study, I want to reflect and share a thing or two I've learned so far.
Sandy Nofyanza
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🙋♀️What makes our careers, our institutions, our economy possible? This #8M, ICTA-UAB draws attention to what is almost never seen: unpaid care work. The work that sustains the capacities that make the economy possible, generating wellbeing & development. The work that makes everything else possible
Unlike how Britain's Tony Blair was with Bush, in saying 'no' to war with Iran, Spain's PM Pedro Sanchez is letting the world know he will not be the cuck of America's pedophile psychopath.
"deep-sea miners claim zero-waste mining is possible" well it is only possible if you have very specific definitions of what waste from mining is (& also make assumptions what you are comparing) - basically it is not true in reality triplepundit.com/2025/deep-se...
TriplePundit • Is Deep-Sea Mining As Harmful As Mining On Land?
Is Deep-Sea Mining As Harmful As Mining On Land?
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🇵🇸 Building bridges with Palestine: #DSA2025 reflections on what higher education can and must do. Reflections by @nofyanza.bsky.social from @gdi-students-4-pal.bsky.social
Building bridges with Palestine: DSA 2025 reflections on what higher education can and must do - Global Development Institute Blog
by Sandy Nofyanza, PhD student in GDI It was the final session on the last day of the 2025 Development Studies Association (DSA) Conference in Bath. Yet, it stood apart from any other session I’ve…
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"It was the final session on the last day of the 2025 DSA Conference in Bath. Yet, it stood apart from any other session I’ve experienced in my entire career." Read Sandy Nofyanza's reflections on a 'Gaza Action Planning Workshop' and the takeaways for the higher education sector. bit.ly/3TYpbEr
Building bridges with Palestine: DSA 2025 reflections on what higher education can and must do - Global Development Institute Blog
by Sandy Nofyanza, PhD student in GDI It was the final session on the last day of the 2025 Development Studies Association (DSA) Conference in Bath. Yet, it stood apart from any other session I’ve exp...
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New from Tyndall Centre + international researchers: GlobalRx, the first global dataset of prescribed burns spans over 200K records across 16 countries and 12 biomes🔥 With #ClimateChange reshaping burn windows, GlobalRX is vital for safe, adaptive land management. 📖 Read more: buff.ly/gQtZiNU
I agree. And this is why interventions like REDD+ were only resulted in modest impact at best since it's not directly (and unable to) addressing wealth-related d&d drivers. The money from REDD+ is tiny compared to nickel mining money.....
ClimateUEA@climateuea.bsky.social · last yr.Dr Carmenta who was part of the team said “Interventions to protect or enhance forest resilience must be beyond the site-level, capable of influencing the distant, often wealth-related drivers of deforestation and degradation" @developmentuea.bsky.social @tyndallcentre.bsky.social @iufro.bsky.social
Trump admin destroying their national security from within -- from pulling development aid to dismantling research www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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🌳Two new papers from Johan Oldekop and the Sustainable Forest Transitions team have been published this week. The first is written by GDI's Johan Oldekop, Lucas Alencar, Katie Devenish, Thuy Duong Khuu, Mariana C. Hernández-Montilla, Sandy Nofyanza and colleagues: bit.ly/4i4Tino
Navigating data challenges in socioeconomic impact assessments of conservation regimes
Scholars are increasingly assessing the impact of conservation interventions at national and regional scales with robust causal inference methods designed to emulate randomized control trials (quasi-...
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We are pleased to share with you a new blog post written by the GDI Students for Palestine group. The group questions what conflicts like Gaza mean for the study and practice of global development, as well as the role of universities like Manchester. Read the piece in full here: bit.ly/3QJFNyn
Palestine and Global Development - Global Development Institute Blog
At The University of Manchester, GDI Students for Palestine is a collective of voices united by shared values of justice, equality, and solidarity.
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First post alert 🚨 Join @micgylo.bsky.social and me for panel P19 at the 2025 DSA Conference! Submit your abstracts by 28 Jan here: devstud.org.uk/conference/conference-2025/. We're eager to engage with your experience, imagination, and ideas on rural dev across the tropics! @devcomms.bsky.social
25-27 June 2025: Hybrid at University of Bath
The DSA2025 conference will take place in hybrid format hosted by Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath so as to ensure the highest levels of inclusion, flexibility and engagement. There ...
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