Come join is in Birmingham! Looking for an Assist/ Associate Professor in Political Economy of Development. Great Department, highly ranked in REF, great teaching evaluations and we have a lot of fun. For links click 👇 #Jobs #NewJob #AcademicTwitter

Happy to chat if you’re thinking of applying for the Assistant Prof role @POCalsoknow womenalsoknowstuff

Exciting news! International Development Department is hiring an Assistant / Associate Professor in the Political Economy of Development! Deadline 30 November. Further info below👇

📢 Not to be missed!🗓️ Jonathan Fisher 🇺🇦's inaugural lecture 🥳 'Authoritarian Futures, and the Future of Authoritarianism' - Weds Sept 20th, 5-6pm Uni of Birmingham ! Sign-up below to attend in-person or online.

📢📢 We're very excited to be looking for a new Professor and Director of GSDRC here International Development Department @gov_uob. We welcome applications from the worlds of policy & practice or research; networks & experience will be a major asset. More info here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DCM877/pro…

BREAKING: Millionaires, economists, and eminent politicians implore the #G20 to “tax the super-rich”. In an open letter, they call for a new international agreement on wealth #taxes to “stop extreme wealth from corroding our collective future”. oxf.am/G20letter

Exciting opportunity to join International Development Department Uni of Birmingham as Professor in Governance and Development and lead the incredible GSDRC, member of the K4DD consortium, deadline 30 Nov

"Tribalism is the enemy of truth and justice – even more now than then – and the victims must always be put at the heart of the stories which are, after all, theirs." The way stories are told matters. It's rare and powerful to hear someone say "I told this one wrong."

Congratulations to Jonathan Fisher 🇺🇦 at his inaugural today. “Authoritarian Futures and the Future of Authoritarianism”. Thoroughly well deserved. And entertaining us in his typical inimitable style. Congrats Prof! You’re awesome. International Development Department @gov_uob College of Social Sciences

After ten amazing years as Institute of Development Studies Director - what a privilege and a pleasure - my tenure comes to an end in April 2024. Please help spread the word about the search for my successor, to lead this wonderful institution and community on the next stage of its journey.

I'm helping put together a book on Pacific approaches to research, development and activism. We're looking for Pacific/Pasifika authors. If you'd like to know more email me at [email protected] for the call for papers

Professional update 🧑‍💻: It is my final day working for Devex. I'm incredibly grateful to for the opportunities I got thru working here. In particular, great colleagues, climate journalism & reporting the DFID merger and UK aid cuts -- at which I threw everything I had.

Pleased to have arrived well at Uni of Birmingham and the brutalist Muirhead Tower to begin my six-month US-UK Fulbright fellowship. International Development Department UI Political Science University of Illinois

📢We are delighted to announce the outcome of the BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize 🏆The winning paper - '‘Guided by the science’:(De)politicising the UK government’s response to the coronavirus crisis' by Steven Kettell and Peter Kerr journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

To repeat, there are vanishingly few people out there who are saying “My mortgage has gone up a huge amount and my heating bills have doubled, but I have heard the government is going to do something about small boats so I am back voting Conservative”.

A fabulous overview of all the amazing things International Development Department colleagues have been up to in the past 3 months. Really exciting. Do take a look and consider subscribing if you haven't already. mailchi.mp/f2f165ec656f/n…

Our new book on the Politics of Development is a thing! Led by the brilliant Claire Mcloughlin, we try and create a fresh + engaging introduction to the controversial, contested and deeply political topic of development. You can pre-order here 👇 1/2 uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-…

The best bit is that it is the product of a genuine collaboration across our whole dept + has brought us closer together as a team The book covers everything from decolonisation and which type of government is best to whether the planet can cope with development Sage Education

NEW ARTICLE! Public services are not just material rewards, but carriers of normative ideas. This matters for state legitimacy. 👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #development #ideas #srilanka #legitimacy World Development Uni of Birmingham College of Social Sciences 1/5🧵

Huge thanks to my International Development Department mentors Nic Cheeseman David Hudson Niheer Dasandi and Jonathan Fisher 🇺🇦 and to Jason Hickel for helping me get this one over the line 🙏 5/5