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The School of Global Development, now in its 51st year, continues to build on its established reputation in the fields of Global Environmental Justice and Gender and Development, which remain central to our research and teaching.
We are delighted to invite you to two consecutive events that bring these themes together, as they acknowledge the continued relevance of environmental protection, gender issues and social justice in a world marked by growing environmental challenges, political and social polarisation. The aims of both events are to reflect on the current state of the art in Environmental Justice, Gender and Development debates, and to foster solidarities and collective action within a changing global context.
Piers Blaikie Annual Lecture 2025
Wednesday 18 June 2025, 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Free to attend, no need to book.
Enterprise Centre Lecture Theatre
The DEV Global Environmental Justice Group invites you to join us for a conversation on what it means to be a woman environmental/land defender globally and in Norfolk.
Key Note Speaker: Rebecca Elmhirst, Professor of Human Geography, University of Brighton
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Gender and Development Conference 2025: Debates for a Changing World
19 June - 20 June 2025
Contributing delegates £180.00
Enterprise Centre, UEA
This conference is organised by the School of Global Development, University of East Anglia. Despite progress since the 4th International Women’s Conference in Beijing 1995, critical challenges persist to the achievement of gender and wider social justice. These include, amongst others, persistent gender-differentiated inequalities in political participation, health, education, sexuality, violence, employment and livelihoods, especially in the context of a changing climate.
The aims of this conference are twofold: to reflect on the current state of the art in Gender and Development debates, and to foster feminist solidarities and collective action within a changing global context.
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Conference Event on 19 June, 6-7pm
'Azaadi - A Journey To Freedom'
This workshop by singer, songwriter, artist, activist, producer and teacher Samia Malik will weave original bilingual Urdu/English songs and visual art with spoken word to introduce ‘Azaadi | آزادی | A Journey To Freedom’.
Her new online project aims to document Samia’s answer to the question: How does a girl from Bradford, who wasn't allowed to study music, who was a survivor of domestic violence, who was from a Pakistani, Muslim, immigrant background, end up creating art that heals and empowers?
Global Development Conference Volunteers
Our Gender and Development Conference Volunteers have done invaluable work in supporting the conference organisation, and look forward to welcoming you at UEA in June. Our volunteers and their current area of work are:
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Madhuri Kamtam is a final-year doctoral researcher in Global Development at the University of East Anglia. Her research evaluates the impact of beedi labour legislation on worker's welfare and gendered collective action through an intersectional feminist lens, using the capabilities approach and mixed methods based on extensive fieldwork in India. Her interests include labour economics, political economy of development, caste, gender and public policy.
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Uwakmfon Archibong Nsa is currently pursuing a master's degree in Global Social Development, and is passionate about gender equality, women’s rights, and the empowerment of marginalized communities. Her work focuses on advancing sustainable development solutions through a gender lens. Her dissertation explores “How Women’s Financial Empowerment Through Entrepreneurship Impacts Their Vulnerability to Gender-Based Violence” in Nyanya community, Abuja, Nigeria.
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Amie Jammeh is a doctoral research student in the School of Global Development at UEA. Her research investigates Long Distance Marriages (LDMs) in urban Gambia through an ethnographic approach contributing to broader discussions in transnational family and intrahousehold bargaining studies.
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Heather Gray is a PhD candidate in Global Development at the University of East Anglia. Her ethnographic and participatory research examines how top-down policy shapes the lives of local and migrant fishers in North-East Scotland, aiming to demonstrate that the fishing industry must be understood through an intersectional lens to support sustainable coastal livelihoods.
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Kuami A. Degbevi is a PhD researcher in Global Development at UEA. His research examines the intersectionality of climate and social injustices in rural girls’ educational experiences in Sub Saharan Africa. It is a comparative case study in Northern and Southern Benin based on an extensive fieldwork and which draws on intersectional social justice analytical framework. His research interests include gender, climate change and education nexus, intersectional and intergenerational injustices, vulnerability to the changing climate and adaptive mechanisms in rural communities.