The DSA NGOs in Development Study Group is revising its aims and future direction—widening its focus beyond traditional CSOs while keeping justice, solidarity, and decolonisation at its core. Help shape its name, objectives, and activities: buff.ly/PlPfc1V

📢 Save the date: Global Cooperation in Times of Crisis: Navigating an Epoch of Crisis (3) 📅 11 November 2026 ⏰ 16:00 CET 💻 Online 🎙️Speakers: @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social (@gvagrad.bsky.social), @petertaylor-uk.bsky.social (@ids.ac.uk) and others 🔗 Register: www.eadi.org/news-2/virtu...

In his dissertation Khaled Hossain Rafi examines how stock markets respond to different sources of uncertainty, including geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty, and sustainability-related developments. He defends the dissertation on 30 October. 👉 Read more: www.utu.fi/en/news/even...

The latest UniPID newsletter is out now! Explore upcoming events, funding opportunities, publications, open calls, international partnerships, and much more. mailchi.mp/1e416c8f78ce...

Join us on 1 October to discuss ethical and responsible approaches to AI! Read more from our website: www.unipid.fi/for-society/...

📢 Request for Research Proposals! UNU-WIDER and South Africa’s National Treasury invite proposals on public revenue mobilization; poverty, inequality and labour markets. Open to South Africa-based and international researchers. Apply 🔗https://go.unu.edu/IOzHK

Climate change is slowing growth & raising conflict risks in Africa. Can economic growth offset the damage? A new UNU-WIDER brief presents the research behind Edward Miguel’s forthcoming WIDER Annual Lecture. Read the brief & register for the lecture on Sept 30: go.unu.edu/tK0gQ

Join our team in Helsinki! We're looking for an Executive and Development Coordinator to support project coordination, resource mobilization and stakeholder engagement within our Director's Office. 📅 Apply by 16 September! Learn more: go.unu.edu/YJCMm

Hanken hosts the art exhibition Moving Ecologies from 21 September to 21 October 2026. The exhibition will be displayed in Hanken's main building in Helsinki and forms part of Hanken's annual SDG Week. 💚🌍 www.hanken.fi/en/news/art-...

Art exhibition Moving Ecologies on display at Hanken

You can find the entire programme for the SDG week on the Hanken website.Moving Ecologies is a group exhibition featuring works by artists Alejandra Alarcón, Vedran Brnjetić, Kriti Kumari and Veronika...

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How can we strengthen meaningful research collaboration between Europe and Africa? 🌍🤝 Join the UniPID Webinar on AU-EU STI on 25 August to hear perspectives from universities, funders, ministries, and the European Commission. Register here: shorturl.at/D4lGM

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A webinar organised by UniPID for Finnish universities focusing on collaboration opportunities in African Union and Europen Union Science, Technology and Innovation collaboration.

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🏆 Master's Award in Development Studies 2026 Finished an exceptional Master's thesis on global development? 🥇 Win €1,000 🌍 Showcase your research 📅 Deadline: 14 August 2026 Eligible theses: completed between 1 Aug 2025 and 31 Jul 2026. Apply now 👇 🔗 www.unipid.fi/unipid-calls...

We are hiring! EUA is looking for an Administrative Officer for the Governance, Funding and Public Policy Development Unit. 📝 Full-time (38h/week) permanent contract 📍 Brussels-based 🔗 https://bit.ly/4wwV5t9

✨ Open Access Highlight of the Week What does it mean to shift power in international development? This open-access book challenges traditional North–South narratives and puts Southern civil society organizations at the center of innovation, partnerships, and change. 📖 Read here: shorturl.at/pyMHU

Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development | Starting fro

At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors’ agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners

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🎉 Welcome to UniPID, Paola Bullon! This month, Paola is joining UniPID as an intern to support communications, AU-EU projects and other activities. Paola is passionate about higher education policy, international student mobility, and gender equality. Get to know her more here: shorturl.at/6LBV8

🤝 Can negotiation training help rural communities secure better land and forest agreements? New UNU-WIDER blog research from Liberia finds that training community leaders improved their ability to identify mutually beneficial deals. 🔗 Read more: go.unu.edu/nrN7q

🔔 Reminder: The application deadline for the Research Associate (PSA) position at UNU-WIDER is approaching. 🌐 The position is based in Helsinki, Finland, and is open to applicants from around the world. 📅 Deadline: 22 July 2026, 23:59 (UTC+3) 🔗 go.unu.edu/VDa0O

Expand your understanding of global development by joining UniPID’s free online MOOC, Essentials in Development Studies! Explore key concepts, theories, actors, policies, and alternative perspectives and learn at your own pace. Read more: 🔗 www.unipid.fi/virtual-stud...

The ISC and UN DESA are seeking nominations of experts to review the draft 2027 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR). Help strengthen the science-policy interface and shape evidence-based guidance for sustainable development. 📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026. council.science/news/call-no...

Call for nominations of experts to review the 2027 Global Sustainable Development Report | deadline: 31 July 2026 - International Science Council

The International Science Council (ISC) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) are seeking nominations of experts to review the second-order draft of the 2027 Globa...

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Call for Contributions for Poster Presentations - Diversity & Inclusion in Erasmus+ Conference Are you leading an initiative that makes international mobility more inclusive? Showcase your practical examples of inclusion & diversity as part of the #DiEM Conference. forms.monday.com/forms/a0f79f...

"The field has long been characterised by unresolved tensions over what development is for, where it happens and how it can be known" @ryancbriggs.net and @andypsumner.bsky.social bring direct empirical evidence to these debates for the first time: www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2622

The Disciplinary Roots of Disagreement in Development Studies: Findings from a Global Survey of Scholars

By Ryan Briggs and Andy Sumner Development Studies is institutionally well established. The QS rankings identify over 150 universities with postgraduate Development Studies programmes across approx…

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📢 Attention, recent graduates from UniPID member universities! Did you finish your master's degree with a thesis that employed global development research frameworks and received a grade of 4 or higher? The call for theses for the Master's Award 2026 is open until 14 August, 2026.

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🧑‍🎓 Are you a recent graduate of our member university? UniPID and FSDR are searching for exceptional theses on global development research to be awarded! The prize for the winning thesis is 1,000€ 🗓️ Deadline for submitting your thesis is 14 August, 2026 www.unipid.fi/unipid-calls...

"My research on resistance movements has led me to believe that music is not only a cosmetic accessory to protests. In Sudan, it was an integral part of the revolutionary movement that ousted the Omar al-Bashir regime." Read Cathy Wilcock's new piece in @theconversation.com: bit.ly/44hjHtV

The rhythms that broke Bashir: how Sudan’s music shaped a revolution

Music created the networks, identities and spaces of trust that made collective political action possible in Sudan’s 2019 revolution.

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📢 A new opportunity has arisen to join the virtual think tank BRICS+ Thinking as a Policy Fellow. Over one year based at GDI, the new fellow will produce a policy report on the changing nature of global governance, with a particular focus on north-south initiatives. More: bit.ly/4aCME73

Policy Fellowship on The New Geopolitics of Global Governance - Global Development Institute Blog

An opportunity for a one-year Policy Fellowship with BRICS+ Thinking.

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🚨 Calling researchers, practitioners and policy experts! Do you have insights on how colonial legacies continue to shape social protection systems today? 🌍 Contribute to the blog series The Long Shadows of Colonialism on Social Protection. 🔗 buff.ly/RfkPwke | Deadline: 17 July

📹 Yesterday's Dudley Seers lecture with Joyeeta Gupta is now ready for rewatch! 💡Given the severity and urgency of our current ecolgical crises and rising levels of inequality, she argues that a new global constitution is a good way forward #EADI2026 @iobua.bsky.social youtu.be/NdHh9VnU7YI?...

Dudley Seers Lecture - Sharing our Earth: Contributing to the Writing of a Global Constitution

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💼 UNU-WIDER is hiring a Research Associate in Helsinki, Finland. 🌐 This Helsinki-based position is open to candidates internationally. 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 22 July 2026, 23:59, UTC +3 🔗 go.unu.edu/VDa0O

📢 Attention, recent graduates from UniPID member universities! Did you finish your master's degree with a thesis that employed global development research frameworks and received a grade of 4 or higher? The call for theses for the Master's Award 2026 is open until 14 August, 2026.

Finnish University Partnership for International Development@unipid.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🧑‍🎓 Are you a recent graduate of our member university? UniPID and FSDR are searching for exceptional theses on global development research to be awarded! The prize for the winning thesis is 1,000€ 🗓️ Deadline for submitting your thesis is 14 August, 2026 www.unipid.fi/unipid-calls...

🚀 UniPID Virtual Studies are now part of RIPA! UniPID joined the cross-institutional studies service (RIPA), making it easier than ever to enrol in Virtual Studies courses and transfer your credits! Our latest blog post walks you through how RIPA works in practice! 🔗 www.unipid.fi/news/unipid-...

UniPID Virtual Studies are now part of RIPA! — UniPID

Earlier this spring, UniPID as a network was connected to the cross-institutional studies service (in Finnish, Ristiinopiskelupalvelu, RIPA). This marks a new chapter for UniPID Virtual Studies! Let’s...

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📣 Pre-announcement for co-funding FSPS will open a call for proposals for member universities to host scholars at risk with co-funding. Finnish member universities can apply for co-funding of up to €240,000 to host a scholar for a period of up to three years. 🔗 www.unipid.fi/unipid/proje...

Attention!📍 Today is your final chance to apply for the pre-selection committee for the Master’s Award 2026! The committee is responsible for ranking the master’s theses for the final evaluation.

Finnish University Partnership for International Development@unipid.bsky.social · 5mo ago

✅ Are you passionate about global development research? We are calling for researchers, practitioners, and university staff to join the Pre-Selection Committee, which selects the finalists for the Master's Award 2026. www.unipid.fi/unipid-calls...