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Black History Month
For this October’s Black History Month, the UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) are launching a series looking at race in international development research....
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Coronavirus and the Disruption of Free School Meals
In this article, the GCRF Challenge Leaders for Education and Food Systems seek to to explore the impact of coronavirus-related school closures on children’s access to food.
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COVID-19: a course-correction for safer cities
Dr Jaideep Gupte, Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Challenge Leader for Cities and Sustainable Infrastructure explores how COVID-19 is reinforcing the world’s need to ‘think’, ‘make’ and ‘live’ our urban environments differently over the next 10 years.
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How can we improve research capacity strengthening in Africa through UK-funded fellowships and scholarships?
Yaso Kunaratnam, UKCDR and Jeff Waage, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, reflect on how their latest mapping and analysis of UK funded fellowships and...
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Making Research Safe
One year ago today, five UK research funders – The Department for International Development (DFID), the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the...
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The value of research and foresight for building agile strategies
Research is the pursuit of knowledge. It allows us to hone decision-making skills in a constantly evolving world. However, humanitarian organisations often operate reactively...
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Helping young children from low-income settings reach their full potential: the important role of active play
This blogpost explores questions asked by parents the world over, and presents ground-breaking new research in South Africa exploring the relationships between physical activity and cognitive development in pre-school children from low-income settings.
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Bringing in young voices and new disciplines for a fresh perspective on resilience to drought in South Africa
The Mpumalanga region of South Africa is home to approximately 4.42 million people [1] and, as many other regions in Africa, has faced terrible and worsening droughts for over...
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What does resilience mean for pastoral communities?
Pastoralism is the most important food production system in dryland environments, supporting some 500 million people globally. Contemporary pastoralists face significant challenges, and although 'resilience-building’ features prominently in development strategies, ‘resilience’ is itself a surprisingly complex issue.